kalli anderson

documentarian + sound artist + writer/editor

Audio Docs

I’ve been making audio documentaries and features since 2005. As an independent audio documentarian and sound artist, I most often use a Zoom H5 portable audio recorder or Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 recorder, RODE NTG-2 shotgun mic and Electrovoice dynamic omni mic, but I also like to experiment with hydrophones, ambisonic mics and contact microphones. I like to edit on ProTools or Reaper, and also have experience editing and mixing on Audition and Dalet. Contact me for audio documentary and narrative podcast story editing and development quotes. In addition to my paid work, every year I take on a limited number of sliding scale and pro bono clients as a story editor and consultant for projects led by creators under-represented in the audio industry.

I am also open to audio documentary and sound art commissions and multidisciplinary artistic collaborations.

Here is a selection of my audio documentary work:

Siren Song - Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
Produced by Kalli Anderson, featuring melancholydi
First Words - Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
Produced by Kalli Anderson; Mixed and Mastered by Chad Bernhard
Transition - Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4
Kalli Anderson with apè Aliermo
Our Home on Native Land - Short Cuts , BBC Radio 4; On Air Fest 2022
Kalli Anderson
The Night Swimmer - Short Cuts - BBC Radio 4 - Finalist, Best Short Doc 2021 Third Coast Competition
Kalli Anderson and Kaija Siirala
Isabel and Alf - Short Cuts, Falling Tree/BBC Radio 4
Kalli Anderson
The Yelling Birds of the Presidio - Short Cuts, Falling Tree/BBC Radio 4
Kalli Anderson and Kaija Siirala
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Visiting Day is a short animated documentary for The Local featuring interviews and sound I recorded and edited with a 17-year-old girl visiting her father in prison. Click on the image to listen and watch.

Won Silver for Best Online Video: Short at the Canadian Digital Publishing Awards

Thumbnail illustration by Mary Kirkpatrick

Video Animation by Eiril Linge and Beth Madeley

And There is Dancing - Finalist, Hearsay Prize 2021, Create Competition
Kalli Anderson, Producer & Chad Bernhard, Composer/Sound Design
The Twiblings Project - Finalist for CAJ Broadcast Feature Award - The Doc Project, CBC
CONTENT WARNING: PREGNANCY AND INFANT LOSS
Charity the Cow - The Doc Project - CBC Radio
Kalli Anderson
The Bird Rescuers - The Doc Project - CBC Radio
Kalli Anderson
Surströmming - Dispatches, CBC Radio
Kalli Anderson
It Happens So Suddenly : A Valentine's Day Love Story - Homerun, CBC Radio
Kalli Anderson