Creative Producer. Audio, video and digital.
I develop formats, produce and build websites, tools and apps.
15+ years making audio and cultural projects for Spotify, Audible, Deezer and the BBC. Early employee at SoundCloud, co-founder of the Institute for Sound & Music, and for six years Managing Director of Munck Studios Berlin. Now building interactive and AI-driven products by directing the tools myself.
Develop
New concepts and formats for audio, video and experiential projects, from first idea to a sold show.
Man Lernt Nie AusSpotify GermanyDaily knowledge podcast. I created the format, sold it to Spotify Germany and built the team behind close to 500 episodes. Spotify UK later adopted it.
The Margate Murders / Die Toten von NordenAudible UK + DEBilingual improvised audio drama recorded on location in Margate and Binz. Sold to both Audible offices. A TV series is in development.
Waves & FrequenciesExhibition conceptA room-based exhibition about sound as a cultural, ecological and scientific force, online now with a touring version planned. Reverb chamber, sound as weapon, Chladni plates.
Produce
Podcasts, audio drama and radio delivered at scale: casting, budgets, teams, clearances.
Munck Studios BerlinMD, 2019 to 2025Opened and ran the Berlin office, growing it to over €650k in annual revenue. P&L, sales, partnerships, executive production and team management across 30+ productions for Spotify, Audible (Germany, USA, UK), the BBC and Amazon/Wondery. munckstudios.de
Deputy Mayor PutinAudible USAInvestigative audio documentary. Executive and co-producer: casting, research, archive clearance, project management.
ÜberlebtWondery DEGerman narrative nonfiction series, 100+ episodes over two years, including localised versions of Wondery's Against All Odds.
- SchauerGeschichte / The History of FearAudible DE + USA
Three seasons of 12 episodes for Audible Germany. The English version was narrated by Ellen Pompeo.
BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4Between the Ears, May 2026Liberation and Fall, Slow Radio, and an episode on St Giga, the Japanese station that scheduled programmes by the moon and tides.
Deezer Originals2016 to 2019Senior Originals Producer. Commissioned and executive produced 11 original German podcasts, with 8M+ total plays and several number ones on iTunes. Titles include Das kleine Fernsehballett, Das Böse, Wissen Snacks and Der Ausnahmezustand.
SoundCloudEmployee #35, 2010 to 2015Joined at about 1 million users, grew with it to 175 million registered. Worked on On SoundCloud, its first monetisation programme, which brought in $2M+ in advertising. Built partnerships with the BBC, Guardian, NPR, Disney, ESPN, HarperCollins and Sky Sports, and its first spoken word and non-music content deals. soundcloud.com/benfawkes
Build
Websites, prototypes, web apps and AI content products, built with AI tools under my direction and shipped live.
DaBodabostories.comA web and app library of read-aloud stories for ages 2 to 9. Pre-recorded stories are free, and parents can order a personalised story starring their child, written with AI, safety-checked and read aloud within about a minute. I designed and built it.
Earth SignalOpenA live globe that turns real-time grid carbon, wildfires, forest loss, CO2 and Arctic sea ice into sound.
Berlin LiveListenA 24/7 generative soundscape of Berlin driven by transit, weather, air traffic, bells and street-noise sensors.
Syngenta story experiencesClient workInteractive news stories with time sliders and animated data, built for the VIRESTINA campaign.
- How To End A WarOpen
Podcast website for Munck Studios.
- Munck catalogueOpen
A format catalogue used as a presentation, with a system for uploading new pitches and a tool for building subtitles.
Culture
Sound art, institutions and music.
ISM Hexadome2015 to 2023Co-founded the Institute for Sound & Music, Berlin. Six projection screens and a 52-channel sound system, shown in Berlin, Massachusetts, Montréal and San Francisco. Commissions included Brian Eno, Thom Yorke and Holly Herndon. Over €600k raised in sponsorship and public funding. Watch the documentation film.
- Donor vinyl box setSee it
I led a fundraising initiative offering a limited-edition set of binaural recordings from the installation to donors giving €40 or more, with interchangeable artwork inserts.
- Google Arts & CultureView all
I led ISM's partnership on online music exhibitions covering the Hexadome and the electronic music histories of Frankfurt, Hamburg, Detroit, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Tbilisi and Tel Aviv, including exhibitions on Melt! Festival and Hamburg's dancefloors. ISM on Google Arts & Culture, Hamburg, San Francisco.
ZKM Sonic ExperimentsResidency, 2024A live audio-visual piece for prepared guitar, performed in ZKM's Kubus on a 42-channel system. Watch the performance documentation.
Music for Relocating a StructureVenice Biennale, 2022Original music for an essay film on Maria Eichhorn's project at the German Pavilion.
Children of EforieNBK Berlin, 2025Music for a three-channel video installation by Kristina Paustian.
- Sounds GutSubscribe
My newsletter on sound, radio, AI, music and culture. Two issues out, the next in November.
Music
I'm also an experimental musician and audio-visual artist. Releases are on Bandcamp, Spotify and SoundCloud.
About
Berlin-based creative producer and sound artist, 15+ years in audio and cultural projects. Freelance since 2025. Before Munck I was at Deezer Germany (2016 to 2019) and SoundCloud (2010 to 2015). BA in English Literature, Cardiff University.
I now work as a creative producer consulting in corporate communications, producing documentaries, audio dramas and podcasts and building web sites, apps and web tools, thanks to the likes of Claude and ElevenLabs.
- 2025 to nowIndependent Creative Producer & Sound Artist, Berlin
- 2026Producer, Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3
- 2024Artist in Residence, ZKM Sonic Experiments, Karlsruhe
- 2019 to 2025Managing Director, Munck Studios Berlin
- 2016 to 2019Senior Originals Producer, Deezer Germany
- 2015 to 2023Co-founder & Vice Chairman, Institute for Sound & Music, Berlin
- 2010 to 2015Audio Content Manager, then Senior Audio Content Manager, SoundCloud
- 2007 to 2009Endress+Hauser, Basel: eBusiness consulting, then product management
- 2003 to 2006BA English Literature, Cardiff University
Contact
Format development, audio and video production, websites, prototypes and AI content products.
benfawkes@gmail.com