The Audio Slam 2.0 at the 2011 NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival brings the live action of a battle of the bands to the world of produced audio. The idea is to create a competition for audio producers that delivers the adrenaline rush of a live performance in the intense atmosphere of a poetry slam.

The format: 4 rounds, 1-minute of audio played each round (better make each minute count).
The judges: media pros from radio, print and film—hold notebooks and markers.
Their job: to judge each minute on the spot, using a scale of 1-10.
The stakes: a $500 cash prize for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, $100 for 3rd place.
The contestants: Youth audio producers ages 13 to 23.
The audio: This radio features and stories, radio drama, true stories and audio art.
When and Where: 2011 NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival at WNYC, Saturday, July 30th, 3:30p.m.
Brought to you by: WMPG’s Blunt Youth Radio Project with support from WNYC Radio Rookies.

MORE ON HOW IT WORKS:  Producers will enter a piece of spoken word audio, and we will play the entries and judge them in one-minute rounds, for a total of 4 rounds. So, no matter how long your piece is, we’ll only be judging 4 minutes of it. You can enter a 4-minute piece, or pick which individual 4 minutes you want us to play of a longer piece. Or, if you have a longer piece, you could consider doing a shorter version for the Audio Slam.

The judges will score the pieces right then and there and determine which ones advance to the next round. So, in round one, we hear minute one, and in round two, we hear your chosen minute two. This means that each minute has to be compelling enough that we’ll want to hear more.

Entries may be any style, but the focus is on work with spoken audio. It’s perfectly fine if the piece has previously aired elsewhere. First place wins $500, second place wins $250, and third place wins $100! Only 16 entries will be accepted. You must be present to participate in the slam.

Not sure if you should enter? Enter, enter, enter! This will be great fun—we’re not snobs, and your work is really wanted!

TO ENTER:

1. FORMAT: Format your four-minutes of audio IN TWO WAYS:

a) divided into four one-minute mp3s, and

b) one undivided mp3. If your piece is longer than 4 minutes, you need to decidewhich minutes you want us to play. Make sure that when we play all 4 minutes (in the final round) that those 4 minutes hang together and still sound good.

2. SEND TO: Send the audio PREFERABLY via https://www.yousendit.com/ to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  It is free to sign up for a basic Yousendit account. If you can’t figure out how to send your audio on Yousendit.com, then you can email it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

3. REQUIRED INFORMATION:

  First and last names of the producer(s)
  Your email address and phone number
  The name of the piece
  One or two lines describing your piece. For example: “When I was eight years old, my dad became homeless for six months after my parents divorced. In this piece, I interview him about his experience.”
  Affiliation: Which radio/media program or station are you affiliated with OR, are you an independent producer?

4. Register for the 2011 NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival: http://www.nycdigitalwavesfest.org/register.

Audio Slam entries deadline: Monday, July 25, 2011 at MIDNIGHT

For more information contact: Claire Holman, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

BARBARA DE LALEU

Barbara De Laleu is an on air personality , voiceover artist, entrepreneur, 2011 graduate of New School University and Digital Marketing Specialist all in the name of radio, going by the name of the Beautiful Stranger.  For more on her please visit http://www.msdelaleu.com !

De Laleu joined ACCESS 1 COMMUNICATIONS in April of 2011 as a Digital Marketing Specialist, but has worked across several airwaves throughout New York City’s top radio stations, including Cox Media Group Long Island 106.1 BLI,  InnerCity Broadcasting Corporation WBLS FM and WLIB AM, and 1600AM WWRL. During her time in radio, De Laleu has produced programs for WBAI 99.5 Peace and Justice Radio, voiced for both local and national companies, radio stations, and online video, was also the 2008 Honoree of the American Women in Radio and Television Annual “25 Women Who RULE in Sales & Marketing, awarded as the 2008-2009 recipient of American Women in Radio and Television’s BELL (Bringing Excellence at a Local Level) AWARD and voted one of the 50 Hottest Women in Radio by Pop Crunch Media coming in at #19 http://www.popcrunch.com/the-hottest-women-of-radio-2011-20-11/  She formerly served on the Board of Directors as the Vice President, Programming Committee Chair, and Membership Committee Chair for Alliance for Women in Media, the New York City Chapter, (formerly known as American Women in Radio and Television).


ANN HEPPERMANN

Ann Heppermann is a Brooklyn-based independent radio/multimedia documentary producer, transmission sound artist and educator. Her stories air nationally and internationally on National Public Radio, the BBC, and on numerous shows including: This American Life, Radio Lab, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Studio360 and many others. Ann is a Peabody award-winning producer who also has received awards from Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival. She is a transmission artist with free103point9 and her work has been exhibited at UnionDocs, Chicago Center for the Arts, among other venues.
She has taught classes and workshops at Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Smith College, Columbia University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. For years she was the Director of Radio at Brooklyn College. She is a co-creator of Mapping Main Street, a collaborative media project documenting the nation’s more than 10,000 Main Streets which was created through AIR’s MQ2 initiative along with NPR, the CPB and the Berkman Center at Harvard. Her work has been funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Association of Independents, the Arizona Humanities Council, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently, she is a Rosalynn Carter for Mental Journalism Fellow and will be making a multimedia documentary about preteen anorexia in partnership with Ms. Magazine and NPR.