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January 28, 2006 (#38) - The Studs Show
Studs Terkel- The Last Touch
Alan Hall- Executive Producer, Falling Tree Productions
Chicago is known for its deep dish pizza, it’s dazzling architecture, it’s sparkling lakefront and Al Capone. But Chicago’s aural signature belongs only to one voice with an unmistakable style and sound: Studs Turkel. Studs has been chronicling American life for decades and he is no stranger to the Third Coast Festival. In 2002 Studs received our Lifetime Achievement award for his extensive work in radio. He has interviewed thousands of people, but in one interview Studs can tell the story of thousands. Alan Hall visited Studs in Chicago in August 2005 (while Hall was also acting as a 2005 Third Coast Festival final round judge) and again in October. They recorded over two hours of interview that touched on Studs' work, his undiminished 'radical conservatism' and his much-missed wife. (Falling Tree Productions , 2005)
Note: Sorry, we were only able to offer this documentary for one week on our website. You can hear an excerpt on the Falling Tree Productions website. See below for a link to one of Studs' documentaries and his introduction and acceptance speech when he received our 2002 Lifetime Achievment Award.
Featured Music:
Hauschka, "La Seine," The Prepared Piano (Karaoke Kalk, 2005)
Hauschka, "Where Were You," The Prepared Piano (Karaoke Kalk, 2005)
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Learn more about Alan Hall's Falling Tree Productions. |
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Check out our feature on Studs Terkel when he was the recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. |
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January 21, 2006 (#37) - The X meets Y Show
From Brooklyn to Banja Luka
Dheera Sujan- Producer, Radio Netherlands
Jonathan is a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. He has a typically New York loudness, and he’s flamboyant, musical and pretty good with languages. Dragana is a nice Serbian girl from Bosnia. She is prone to the occasional Slavic melancholy, but is also generally loud, musical, and pretty good with languages. They live in Holland, a small and sober country that, at first glance doesn’t seem suited to either temperament This is the story of theirr improbable romance. (Radio Netherlands , 2005)
Jack & Olive
Jill Dorothy Summers- Artist, Writer, Musician
David Whitcomb- Engineer
On a brisk day in October, the busty Apricot Wensleydale hides from her three grown children, Olive Orange sneaks beef broth into her husband's vegan couscous, Jacob Witherby reads aloud to a family of lost ghosts, and two Argentinean ants fall in love. These are the radio-play inspired vignettes that make up the collection "Cohabitation.” This is the tale of Jack and Olive, two of the inhabitants of Jill Summers’ fictional greystone in Chicago rendered in text, sound, video, original music and assemblage.
Glasnost
Alla Pekareva- Producer, outLoud
Noah Miller- Director, outLoud
The obstacles to young love are endless, but by far the A-number-one, top of the heap, alpha dog impediment to such romance has to be, mom and dad. And when you’re gay and your mom says to you at the age of 12, “If you ever become a lesbian I’ll curse the day you were born,” it’s especially hard. (outLoud Youth Training Program, 2005)
Featured Music:
Lucky Pierre, "Bedwomb," Hypnogogia (Melodic UK, 2004)
CocoRosie, "Noah's Ark," Noah's Ark (Touch & Go, 2005)
Richard Cheese, "Fell in Love With a Girl," Tuxicity (Ideatown, 2002)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Modern Romance," Fever to Tell (Interscope, 2003)
Bloc Party, "This Modern Love," Silent Alarm (Vice, 2005)
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Learn more about outLoud queer youth radio. |
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Check out "Apricot Wensleydale" another story from Jill Dorothy Summers' Cohabitation on Re:sound 29. |
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January 14, 2006 (#36) - The Dad Show
Family Sentence
Jeanine Cornillot- Independent Producer
Viki Merrick- Producer, transom.org
"My Dad spent 23 years in prison. He started off as a Cuban revolutionary and later ended up a convicted felon. We only talked once in the last 16 years. Then out of the blue I got an email from him. He wrote: 'I'm home. Your biological father, Hector.'" So begins the story of Hector Cornillot and his daughter, Jeanine, who went to meet her father after all those years of silence. It is the story of a woman, a daughter, asking the unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable questions of a child whose father disappeared into a prison decades ago. Family Sentence bears witness to the fraying facade and stunning honesty of a failed revolutionary and father. This is the story of their relationship, forged in the imagination and built on disappointment and hope. (transom.org, 2005)
My Incredible Shrinking Father
Jesse Brown- Writer, Independent Producer
Karen Levine- Producer, The Sunday Edition
When Jesse tells people that his father is a psychiatrist, they typically raise their eyebrows and say, "Oh. So that explains it." It's often assumed that therapists' children spend their early years functioning as research subjects. The truth is, the most remarkable thing about Jesse's experience growing up the son of a psychiatrist is that he has very little to remark on it. So Jesse went to a convention of the American Psychiatric Association to try to understand psychiatry in general and his father in particular. (The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio 1, 2004)
Mauthausen
Gwen Macsai- Re:sound host
On the 50th anniversary of her father's liberation from the Nazis, Gwen attempts to reconcile the strange little man who loves to call her up and tell her his newest dirty joke with the boy who spent his teen years in the Mauthausen concentration camp. (NPR's Morning Edition, 1995)
Featured Music:
Slowly Minute, "Light of people and the song of the earth." Tomorrow World (Bubble Core, 2005)
Luc, "P.P.C." peaofthesea (Aagoo Records, 2005)
Colleen, "Ritournelle," Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf, 2003)
Colleen, " Your Heart On Your Sleeve," Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf, 2003)
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January 7 , 2006 (#28) - The Remix Show
Originally broadcast July 17, 2005
Producers and sound artists go to the audio playground and remix to their heart’s content.
Sopranos in the West Wing and Terminally Blonde
Jonathan Mitchell- Independent Producer
Producer Jonathan Mitchell edits together disparate TV shows (Sopranos and The West Wing) and movies (Terminator 2 and Legally Blonde) to create hilarious pop culture remixes. We play two of them and talk to Jonathan about his work.
The Neighborhood Freaks
Jay Allison- Independent Producer
A fictional narrative comprised of completely unrelated radio stories. Veteran radio producer Jay Allison describes it this way: all these interview tapes were sitting side by side on the shelf and one day the people on the tapes just started talking to one another.
Nickelback
Sean Cole- Senior Reporter, WBUR
It's happened to all of us: you're in your car and song X comes on the radio. In a nanosecond, your brain digs through all your dusty memory files and sends out an alert: this sounds just like song Y! And you wonder, did someone steal song X from song Y? Maybe. You'll never know. But what if song x and song y were sung by the same band, can a band steal from itself... or are they just being…consistent? One music fan remixed two songs and put them to the ultimate test.
Mashups
DJ Paul V. (Host of The Smash Mix on Indie 103.1 in LA) gives a brief introduction to the Mash-up: Two songs digtally combined to form a new, seamless pop masterpiece.
Featured Mashes:
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)
Change in Farming
Adam Goddard- Composer
Steve Wadhams- Producer, CBC
Adam Goddard, a composer in Toronto, whose passion is music, interviews his 90 year-old grandfather whose passion is farming. Then, he combines his grandfather's words with his own music and the result is a little like.....rap.
The Books
Paul de Jong—Musician
Nick Zammuta—Musician
Julie Shapiro—Managing Director, Third Coast International Audio Festival
One of our favorite bands is The Books: Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto. On their first national tour, they stopped by our studio to talk to us about their music and how they put it all together. If you enjoy rich sound from a lot of different sources—thrift store records, found tape, TV shows—then this is the band for you.
Featured Music:
Caribou, “Drumheller,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Subtonik,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Lord Leopard,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)
Caribou, “Yeti,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Mark Vernon, “Splicing,” Derby Tape Club (found tape)
The Books, “If Not Now, Whenever,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
The Books, “Be Good to Them Always,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
RX, “Imagine,” The Party Party (2005) (George W. Bush/Lou Reed/John Lennon)
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The Books, "read, eat, sleep"
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