In conversation with Ben Horner

Musicianship, sound design, composing, live performance, podcasting and PhD research are all a part of the rich creative make-up of Ben Horner, our guest on this week's show. His wide-ranging output plays with the complexities of meaning that can be evoked through sound as language and material phenomena. After completing a BA (Hons) in Creative Music Technology (Canterbury Christ Church University) and an MA in Digital Media (Goldsmiths University of London), he is in the final stages of a PhD by practice analysing podcast feature documentary. Here he talks to Dario about research, his own development as a podcaster, how podcasting relates to other media forms, being creative for non-commercial reasons, and host of other topics.

In this episode, we showcase two of his works Nota Bene, an experimental podcast documentary made at Canterbury Christchurch University summarising the work that is produced by the Centre for Practiced-Based Research in the Arts. Part ethnography and part radio art experiment, Goodwin Sands Radiogram is an award-winning series of 30-minute podcasts about the lives of people in the south-east corner of England. 

For more about Ben Horner and his work visit The AudioSphere and follow him on Twitter: @SonicCircles