Day 2 Dispatch from RESONATE 2024! 🎉
LITERALLY LUPITA NYONG'O??? HELLO???
Hi hello Wil Williams here and RESONATE 2024 WAS SO BEAUTIFUL!
Not sure what RESONATE is? Read on for its About below, but also be sure to check yesterday’s day 1 dispatch!
RESONATE Podcast Festival is the place where producers meet their peers and newcomers meet their heroes. Over two days at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA, attendees will be treated to workshops from skilled producers, a special live performance, and the opportunity to get private pitch feedback from industry veterans. Between sessions, you will enjoy snacks, visit our cafe, see our art exhibitions, and converse with people who love podcasts as much as you do.
Day 2 was a beautiful wrap to this beautiful event. I’m such a sap about everything I saw here! I’ll be missing it tomorrow, and I’m already wishing for a longer event in the future.
This will be another roundup of my live tweets of each session, though there were a few today that were un-live-tweetable. I’m sorry to give you fomo, but great news: tickets for RESONATE 2025 go live on July 1st! I urge you to set a calendar reminder for it now so you don’t miss out; tickets go fast, and you do not want to miss this event next year.
And again, if you’re not on X, no worries! I have all my notes collected as docs in this Google folder.
🐤Live tweets
Ronald Young Jr - Emotional Truth Telling
Ronald Young Jr talks about the lines between literal truth-telling and emotional truth-telling in narratives, from journalism to creative nonfiction — and what we owe our audiences when those lines blur.
Davy Gardner - ANIMAL: Every Sound Already Here
This interactive session is about the moment a story or a character brings itself into being. Drawing on group mind and long-form improvisation, we’ll explore how we can use sound to conjure something truthful out of thin air.
Audio Flux Circuit 04: Firsts, with Jason Reynolds!
No live tweet here! This was a listening session. Go check out Audio Flux!
Join Julie Shapiro and John Delore for the first(!)-ever presentation of Audio Flux Circuit 04: Firsts. With literary phenom Jason Reynolds, and the debut of original fluxworks from Circuit 04—three-minute audio stories inspired by a set of prompts, including the theme “Firsts.”
RESONATE PITCH PARTY
Three judges. Three contestants. One winner will get $10,000 to make their podcast pilot.
RESONATE PREVIEWS
Literal actual Lupita Nyong’o announced the pitch party winner via Zoom!
The Pitch Party winner will be declared and we will learn about cool upcoming projects.
Ray Christian - The Storied Life
No live tweet here! This was a storytelling session. Go subscribe to What’s Ray Saying!
During this presentation I will explore how stories are developed from the perspective of an academic and performer, the difference between curated stories and oral history, and my own journey as ghetto kid, soldier and professor, and the threads that connect them.
📸And some pictures!
We’ll be back next week with a return to standard programming here at Podcast Marketing Magic!
Did you attend RESONATE 2024? Let us know your favorite session in the comments! AND SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! 🎉
—Wil 🦇