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March 31 , 2007- The Coping Show
Originally aired April 15, 2006
Soundtrack to War
Cath Dwyer- Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Mark Don- Technical Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
George Gittoes- Filmmaker, Artist
So much has been written abou the war in Iraq but how much has been heard? The sound of war isn’t just guns and grenades. It’s Guns N Roses, Eminem and Tupac -- to say nothing of the Baghdad Beegees. Australian war artist George Gittoes has traveled to Iraq four times since 2002 and he’s recorded the music that soldiers listen to to psyche up for battle and to unwind afterward. In a place of isolation, insecurity, fear and death, soldiers have turned to singing, rapping, and playing music as lifeline to survival. (Street Stories, 2005)
I Made Pizza for Kim Jong Il
Hugh Levinson- Producer, BBC
This story is really two stories. Both absolutely true. And they contrast not only in content but in form. One, is about power and authority, and it is told with a flourish that is right out of central casting. The other is about deprivation and disadvantage and is told in a much quieter way as though it wants to take up less space in the room. The first deals with an Italian chef who was asked to travel to North Korea to display his pizza making skills with only the best ingredients and the most expensive tools. The other is about a student with nothing, witnessing the North Korean famine of the late 1990s. (BBC Radio 3, 2005)
My Criminal Life
Mark Cassette- Youth Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
Kerry Seed- Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
Eighteen year old named Mark is just two months shy of aging out of the Long Creek Youth Development Center in Maine (otherwise referred to and the juvenile detention system). As he and his family stare at the future, Blunt Youth Radio at WMPG in Portland, recorded some their thoughts. (Blunt Youth Radio, 2005)
Featured Music
P:ano, "Heavens," Alphabet Series E (Tomlab, 2005)
Talib Kweli, "Get By ," Quality (Rawkus (Uni), 2002)
Tony, "Angers," Itinerance (Autres Directions in Music, 2005)
Melodium, " La fin de tout," La tete qui flotte (Autres Directions in Music, 2005) |
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March 24 , 2007 (#67)- The Epistolary Show
An Open Letter to My Spanish Host Family
Amy O'Leary
Studying abroad is a way to learn about a new culture and meet new people. And of course, you can write to those back home about your adventures. Amy O'Leary ended up writing a letter, after her study abroad experience, to her host family. Part of Weekend America and McSweeney's ongoing series "Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond." ( Weekend America , 2007)
You Know You're in Baghdad When...
Claudia Taranto- producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Former Australian Human Shield during the Iraq War, Donna Mulhearn, returns to Baghdad to do voluntary humanitarian work with street kids. Through her e-mails home she describes what's happened to her and ordinary Iraqis over the last 9 months; like their feelings about the capture of Saddam, a bomb in her neighbourhood that killed a local businessman, Christmas in Iraq and being captured by mujahadeen guerillas in Falujah. (Street Stories, 2004)
An Open Letter to Lifetime Television
Lucy Baker
Lucy Baker has whiled away way too much time--not reading or taking photographs--but watching Lifetime Television. She blames a lot of time wasted on the TV channel. We hear a letter she has written about it. Part of Weekend America and McSweeney's ongoing series "Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond." ( Weekend America , 2006)
Letter from Chicago
Jonathan Menjivar – Independent Producer
Jonathan Menjivar's mom started worrying about him when he moved to Chicago...and hasn't stopped. In this audio letter, Menjivar attempts to reassure his mom by documenting a day in his life.
Open Letter to Women Who Work for Chain Bookstores
Sarah Bauer
A complaint from the mall, on non-conformity and its discontents. Part of Weekend America and McSweeney's ongoing series "Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond." ( Weekend America , 2004)
Antarctic Solitude
Zak Rosen- Independent Producer
As part of a Third Coast Conference session in 2006, Brendan Greeley asked Zak Rosen to explore the potential of bloggers as subjects, fixers, and correspondents in radio stories. So Zak selected an arbitrary place (Antarctica) and to then found a blogger who could talk about this place in an interesting way.
Featured Music
Hauschka, "Lipstick Race," Room to Expand (Fat Cat, 2007)
The Gentlemen Losers, "Laureline," The Gentlemen Losers (Buro, 2006)
Mapstation, "Warm Distance," Distance Told Me Things to be Said (Scape, 2006)
Gotan Project, "La Viguela," Lunatico (XL Recordings, 2006)
Tonetraeger, "Lovestory Letter," This Is Not Here (Quatermass, 2004)
Tonetraeger, "Inner City ," This Is Not Here (Quatermass, 2004)
Grubby, "Got a Letter," In the Basement (Purple Sock Recordings, 2004)
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March 17 , 2007 (#42)- The Dry vs. Moist Show
Originally aired March 18, 2006
The Dry vs. The Moist:
1. Birds
2. Octopus
3. Jumping Cholla
4. Marfa
5. NSW
6. Wave Diary
7. Vinylator
Sherre DeLys- Independent Producer
Rick Moody- Independent Producer/Author
Chris Abrahams- Composer/Musician
Russell Stapleton- Recording Engineer
A mix of fiction, fantasy and fact, The Dry vs. The Moist is a unique and intercontinental collaboration between three artists: the US writer Rick Moody, the Australian sound artist (and Radio Eye producer) Sherre DeLys, and pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks). The resulting assemblage includes seven short stories ranging far and wide in both style and subject matter, but all the while revealing consistencies between between two different places (USA / Australia) and two very different environments (the desert/ the sea.) (Commissioned by Radio Eye, 2006)
Misfire
Sarah Varney- Independent Producer
Paul Frey- Independent Producer
Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr Pepper radio ads, original violin music and sounds of thirst and thirst quenching. (TCF ShortDoc, 2003)
Featured Music
Dictaphone, "The Last Song," Vertigo 2 (City Centre Offices, 2006)
Eluvium, "Nepenthe," An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (Temporary Residence, 2004)
Eluvium, "Under the Water ," Lambent Material (Temporary Residence, 2003)
Eluvium, "Genius and the Thieves," An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (Temporary Residence, 2004)
Chihea Hatakeyama, "Bonfire on the Field," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Chihea Hatakeyama, "Swaying Curtain in the Window," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Chihea Hatakeyama, "Inside of the Pocket ," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
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Hear the other 2003 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs, Stories about Thirst. |
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March 10 , 2007 - Pledge Drive!
Please take a few moments to support Re:sound, the Third Coast Festival, and Chicago Public Radio. Here's how.
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March 3 , 2007 (#66)- The Conference Show
Note: Come immerse yourself in a weekend dedicated to the art and craft of documentary audio at the 7th annual Third Coast Festival Conference, November 1-3, in Chicago. Registration is now open!
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"The Conference Show" features a bunch of favorite sessions from year's past:
These are a Few of My Favorite Things
Robert Krulwich
What inspires those who inspire us? Robert Krulwich presents a sampler of radio stories from a young producer who likes to flirt with danger: Sean Cole.
Explaining the World in Four Minutes
David Kestenbaum
When David Kestenbaum tells people he covers science for NPR, they often say something like "it must be hard explaining such complicated ideas in such a short amount of time!" Well, it is. Learn how to get great tape from people who use phrases like "renormalization group theory," how to tell tangled stories in a compact way, how to find unusual narratives in usual stories and how to find a scene when the backdrop appears as dull as your own cubicle.
Talking to the Drunk Guy at the End of the Bar
John Nielsen
Gwen Macsai talks with John Nielsen, NPR Environmental reporter and author of the new book Condor: To the Brink and Back--the Life and Times of One Giant Bird, about his now lengendary interview outtake.
Die, Mediocrity, Die
Nancy Updike
Do your own radio scripts ever bore you? Or frustrate, confuse and deflate you? Nancy Updike, who has written stories ranging in length from 50 seconds to 59 minutes, will present easy approaches to making your writing sharper, more memorable and more engaged with the tape. Also, learn how to make drab tape beautiful through writing, and along the way, enjoy some schadenfreude: instructive stories of mistakes and failure will be shared for the benefit of all.
The Great Mistake
Joe Frank
An incorrectly flipped switch creates a whole new texture in an already textured monolog and Joe Frank's work never sounded the same again. This excerpt is from the 2003 session "Seeing Sound."
Extras:
All of today's talks are available, as streams or for download, in their full, 90-minutes unedited glory in the Conference archives.
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These are a Few of My Favorite Things
Robert Krulwich |
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Explaining the World in Four Minutes
David Kestenbaum |
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Die, Mediocrity, Die
Nancy Updike |
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