Jonathan Mitchell has spent his career looking for new ways of using musical ideas in narratives, exploring the potential of the recording studio, and expanding the vocabulary of storytelling on the radio. He studied music composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Mills College. He has been contributing to Studio 360 since 2001, and he was part of the team that produced the Peabody award-winning program American Icons: Moby-Dick. Mitchell has also worked with and contributed to WNYC's Radio Lab, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Living on Earth, Fair Game, Beyond Computers, and Loose Leaf Book Company. In 2004, he won a Golden Reel award for Shades of Gray, an hourlong documentary about abortion. Mitchell composed the music and sound design for two episodes of Nova: Astrospies and The Spy Factory.
I've Never Lived in Chicago
By Jonathan Mitchell
To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)
Let Your Sounds Do the Talking
By Jonathan Mitchell
So you're a great writer, and you've pretty much got interviewing down, but something's just... missing. Sound. The sounds we use and how we use them can say so much in a radio story, but often that potential goes untapped. (more)
City X
By Jonathan Mitchell
The shopping mall is a cultural and commercial phenomenon in America that most can relate to in some way or another. (more)
Megaphone
By Damali Ayo, Ahri Birnbaum, Jonathan Mitchell, Dmae Roberts & Sandy Tolan
How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them? (more)
Embroidery Felon
By Jonathan Mitchell
Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks. (more)
Sound Design From Hell
By Jonathan Mitchell
Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene. (more)
