Kaye Mortley

Kaye Mortley (* 1943 in Sydney ) is a feature writer and radio director. She has lived in France since 1981. She has received numerous awards for her sonically demanding productions.

Kaye Monley studied literature in Sydney and Melbourne , later in Strasbourg , where she did her doctorate. From 1973 to 1981 she worked in the radio play and features department of Australian Broadcasting. Since 1981 she has been working as a freelance writer for French, Australian and German broadcasters, based in Paris. Mortley has led feature workshops and seminars; In 2013 she was a lecturer at the Nordkolleg Rendsburg .

“If radio is or wants to be art, then it has to be like ' arte povera ': an art that focuses on its own potential and remains 'blind'. Sound, silence, language and music are the only materials that radio has to offer to compensate for 'blindness'. "

- Kaye Mortley

Awards

Radio Play of the Month September 1981: The Escape by Gillian Jones (Director)
Prix Europa / Prix Futura: 1979, 1983, 1985, 1991, 2001; 1998 for Up There - Struthof . The French camp ; 2004 for Theben - a road movie
Radio play of the month June 1999: Sounds of Dancing
Prix Italia 2005: Foreign in Alsace. The Alsatian poet Conrad Winter (realized with Aldo Gardini, editor and sound director), can be heard on SRF

Web links

Short biography (sonosphere.org)

Literature by and about Kaye Mortley in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Michael Lissek (lecture): My goal would be silence. About Kaye Mortley's play 'Fremd im Alsace'.

Michael Lissek in conversation with Kaye Mortley

Virginia Madsen: The Moon in front of the window. Reflections on the radio of Kaye Mortley

The Beginning of Nowhere , Feature by Kaye Mortely, Kulturradio rbb, January 20, 2018 (accessed March 23, 2018)

Individual evidence

↑ Kaye Mortley in the HörDat audio play database
^ Rendsburg symposia for acoustic media . Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
↑ Quoted in: Choreographie des Klangs - Between abstraction and narration , edited by Ekkehard Skoruppa, Marie-Luise Goerke et al., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-48009-0 , p. 50/51

personal data
SURNAME	Mortley, Kaye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian feature writer and radio director
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney

[1] Kaye Mortley in the HörDat audio play database

[2] Rendsburg symposia for acoustic media . Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.

[3] Quoted in: Choreographie des Klangs - Between abstraction and narration , edited by Ekkehard Skoruppa, Marie-Luise Goerke et al., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-48009-0 , p. 50/51