A LIFE ELECTRIC GOES LIVE ACROSS EUROPE ON RADIA NETWORK

A Life Electric is now live on 40 radio stations today throughout Europe.

The online component of our ongoing epilepsy documentary has been turned into a 30-minute radio feature and broadcast via the Radia.fm network across Europe.

This is big news for our project and purpose: To get unheard epilepsy stories out into the public sphere, told in new ways, via new platforms, and out to the largest audience possible.

The Radia network’s motto is “new and forgotten ways of making radio” and produces long-form features by audio producers internationally who highlight underreported societal and environmental issues.

We are glad Radia has recognised epilepsy as one of these issues that needs more air time.

Audio producer Luca Piparo produced the episode — CONTROL — using voice actors, ambient audio, and distorted sound samples.

“Control is a sonic journey through stories of people living with epilepsy,” Luca said, “The composition was created in collaboration with the multimedia project A Life Electric, from which stories were chosen and re-interpreted.

The composition is an artistic exploration of the world that surrounds epilepsy, a world often made up of silence, indifference and fears, but also of pure energy, inexplicable phenomena, and still today enveloped in charm and mystery.”

Dedicated to all those people who don’t have a voice. Luca has personal experience with epilepsy and has explored his own condition through this process, like many people we have interviewed over the process of creating the A Life Electric project.

Produced by Luca Piparo
Texts and arrangements by Fraser Morton, Luca Piparo Music by Domenico Scjaino, Luca Piparo
Voices by Damara, Fraser, Sandra, Shameek, Steffi, Suki, Veronika, Zelah
Copyrights CC-BY-NC @ Luca Piparo
In collaboration with Far Features Ltd

A Life Electric is a multimedia documentary project exploring epilepsy experiences globally with the goal of bringing humankind’s most misunderstood brain condition out of the shadows through art and education.

The project draws upon a hybrid of multimedia techniques to connect people, communities and society to the “lives of epilepsy”. We enter epilepsy through doorways of personal experiences via interviews, letters, free-writing, biographical filmmaking, documentary techniques, abstract photography, typographical design, sound design, audio storytelling, digital media, print books, magazines and exhibitions to create a multimedia project accessible to all.

The A Life Electric project is personal for writer-director Fraser Morton, which started in his notebook, inspired by the life of his older brother, Blair. Since beginning the project in 2018, Fraser has held more than 100 interviews in person and over the phone. Along with his partner Eszter Papp, the pair have also collected a series of portraits, which will be displayed in photo exhibitions. The A Life Electric feature film is in development and book also coming soon in 2020. Please write to Fraser about book enquiries here: fraser@farfeatures.com Book release 2020 Photo Exhibitions coming 2020 Feature Film in development

Creator/Writer/Director: Fraser Morton
Photographer/Producer: Eszter Papp
Editor: Sadiq Mansor
Designer: Ali Kelly
Mentor/Writing Editor: Jade Richardson
IT: Mike Cashin
Additional Reporting: Risyiana Muthia, Rob Bain
Produced by: Far Features Ltd
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