SONOHR 2026: Shorts 2

De ambulantes soy
Short piece (ohne Worte) by Vanessa Valencia Ramos, and Gerardo Flores Hidalgo, 7 minutes

An inner journey, like a thought spoken out loud: De ambulantes soy is a piece of radio art that explores the sounds that inhabit us, the ambulantes (hawkers). We become entangled with a city that, at times, seems indifferent, yet, at others, envelops us in its nostalgic echoes.

Vanessa Valencia Ramos is an audiovisual communicator and producer of narrative audio content, with experience in independent media in the journalistic, artistic, community, and digital fields.

Gerardo Flores Hidalgo is a sound engineering technician with experience in live shows and concerts. He creates music scoring and sound design for independent projects and is passionate about sound for documentaries.

Sables
Short piece (FR / ST:DE), by Sam Cornu and Camille Protar, Inspired by Marguerite Duras and Samuel Beckett, Texte : Sam Cornu, Sound design : Camille Protar, With the voices of : Galina Safarian, Martine Lambert, Lison Almeida, Hugo Juno and Luke Wintour, 15 minutes

Sables brings together distance and proximity, memory and fantasy, the present and the past, life and death. The piece aims to draw the listener into an immersive experience, sharing an exploration of tragic love presented through multiple narratives and interaction with the environment. The first version of Sables was performed in situ at the University of Avignon during the Festival d’Avignon, making use of indoor and outdoor spaces with different sound sources.

Camille Protar is an actress, stage director, and sound designer for theater. She trained in some Parisian schools and conservatories, in parallel with her university studies and musical practices. She directs the company Ulysse Kaldor, with which she has staged texts by Fernando Arrabal and Howard Barker. She is pursuing her research-creation thesis at the University of Avignon. She questions the place and modes of sound production in the overall process of stage writing when it involves the boundaries between interiority and exteriority, real spaces and mental spaces.

Sam Cornu is a Franco-British PhD student and playwright. His interdisciplinary thesis in research-creation at the University of Avignon, supported by EUR InterMEDIUS and co- supervised by Nathalie Macé, David Galli, and Romanian playwright Matéi Vișniec, examines the limits of language in Beckett and Pinget to inform artistic co-creation in Avignon. Co-creator of ‘‘Sables’’, he has published award-winning short stories and poems. His recent play ‘‘La Vilenie’’ was published in 2025 by L’Harmattan.

Sanyo
Short piece (EN) by Jonah N. Buchanan, with the voices of: Miriam N. Buchanan, Martin N. Buchanan and Kamala Buchanan-Williams, Voice acting: Ivan P. Lombardi and Celeste Bastide, 4 minutes

When Jonah N. Buchanan left home, one of the few personal items he took with him was his family’s rice cooker: an old, once-white Sanyo machine that was older than him. As the appliance began to show signs of age, Jonah reflected on how much of his life it had witnessed. He asked his family to leave him voicemails sharing their Sanyo memories.

Born and raised in San Diego, California, Jonah N. Buchanan is an audio producer and oral history practitioner based in Queens, New York. His work explores self-archiving, shared experience, and memory work in audio and mixed media forms.

My Fucking Diary
A podcast episode (EN) by Sarah Frosh, 6 minutes

My Fucking Diary lives in the feral limbo found after a break up. Diary extracts collide in an audio collage to abrasively and humorously reflect on a year riddled with sex and selfdiscovery. The diaristic writing, cuts and repetitions bleed the encounters into one another, and spiral in the simultaneity found in desire and destruction. My Fucking Diary sits somewhere between a naff brash reel-esque piece and a poignant kaleidoscope documenting the sentient sexual self.

Sarah Frosh is a London based audio producer with a background in anthropology. She worked with the BBC, universities, governments and international NGOs. Drawn to the strange, unifying heart of what makes us human, she creates audio stories that invite people to learn from one another and connect more deeply.