The Sound of Things

  • Aiste Ptakauske
    Author
  • Douglas Quin
    Name of Band or Artist
  • Mindaugas Juska
    Sound Editor
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Genres:
    Podcast Series, Talk Show
  • Length:
    31 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 12, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Lithuania
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • New Media Film Festival
    Los Angeles, USA
    June 5, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Rio WebFest
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    November 29, 2024
    Official Selection
Artist Biography

Aiste Ptakauske is an award-winning content creator who successfully works across media and continents. She is a published author of two best-selling novels for young adults and a volume of short prose for which she has been awarded a national prize for the best fiction debut in Lithuania. She helped shape many series for various media outlets in Lithuania and beyond in the capacity of a screenwriter, supervising producer, head writer, and creator.
Her documentary Ethnic Kitchen and her podcast series The Sound of Things have been official selections of international film and media festivals around the globe. For her short-form digital series Little Incidents, she was honoured with the Best Creator award at Seoul Webfest 2019 (Seoul, South Korea).
She is a Fulbright grantee who holds an MA in Television-Radio-Film from the S.I.Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (NY, USA) and is a proud member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
In 2025, she started working on her doctoral dissertation about the adaptation of scripted television formats for the international market.

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Artist Statement

The Sound of Things is a series of honest and profound conversations between the award-winning content creator Aiste Ptakauske and the internationally renowned composer, wildlife recordist, and sound designer Douglas Quin who generously shares the lessons he's learned over the course of his rich life and career. This podcast series is a mentee's profession of love to her mentor and a great source of inspiration for everyone who's passionate about film, music, nature, radio, art, and continuous learning.