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April 26, 2008 (#91)- The Messages Show
Note! Due to some rights issues, we're unable to offer this week's show on the website. We wish we could!
Muriel's Message
Mira Burt-Wintonick - Independent producer, Canada
Digging around in her parent's basement, producer Mira Burt-Wintonick unearthed an old cassette with the words "Muriel's Message" scrawled on the side. She popped it in her tape deck, listened, and discovered --among many other things -- that the sound of a voice can capture dimensions of memory that a photo or written words never will.
Silence
Joan Schuman - Sound artist, USA
Words can be such clumsy tools of communication -- it's never easy to say exactly what we want to say. One man decided to solve the problem by taking a vow of silence. Which worked well for him. Until, that is, he met someone that he really, really wanted to talk to.
Debt Collector
Roman Mars - Producer, Re:sound
When email, instant messaging, text messaging, cell phones, palm pilots, and personal communication devices abound -- it's really hard to be unreachable anymore. Someone, somewhere, is always trying to get through to you. And sometimes it's someone you really don't want to hear from.
Take Me Out
Carma Jolly - Producer, CBC
A musical meditation on loneliness and an unavoidable fact of modern life: the phone solicitor.
Bread on the Waters
Neil McCarthy and Gregory Whitehead - Producers, BBC
The term "bottle evangelists" might sound like it refers to people preaching the evils of alcohol. But of course, it means something entirely different. Bottle evangelists try to spread the word of god by writing biblical passages on small pieces of paper, stuffing those pieces of paper into bottles, and throwing them into the middle of the ocean by the thousands, hoping they'll settle on some distant shore and be discovered by non-believers.
Additional credits: "Bread on the Waters" featured the voices of Jack Bowe, Maurice Payne, Multiades Paltonios, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Jon Swan, Wim Kruiswijk, and David Jebson. The story originally aired on "Between the Ears" on BBC Radio 3.
Featured Music:
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Check out sound artist Joan Schuman's website where you can hear other stories about sound, language, speech, and more... |
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Hear more cellphone plays from the Steppenwolf Theater / Third Coast Festival collaboration. |
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Listen to more episodes of "Between the Ears" on BBC Radio 3. |
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Phone messages on the show today provided by Tape Findings on the Sweet Thunder website, an awesome collection of found sound. Check it out! |
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April 19, 2008 (#90)- The Magpie Show
Magpie Diva
Lea Redfern - Producer, Radio Eye, ABC
In Chinese culture, the magpie is a symbol of happiness. In Korea, it's a symbol of good news. In other places, though, the poor magpie is everything from a bad omen to a symbol of death. Say what you will, no one seems to be neutral about the bird.
Mad About Magpies
Guy Hand - Producer, Living On Earth, NPR
Guy Hand says that we look to the natural world for clues to living a more harmonious life. For instance, we aspire to those traits in animals we value: the wisdom of the owl, the noble bearing of the bald eagle, the grace of the swan. But what's nature trying to teach us when it starts acting like some pushy, poorly socialized uncle -- you know, the one with the loud voice who moves in uninvited and threatens to eat everything in sight?
Featured Music:
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Find out why Guy Hand made the switch from photography to radio and see his photos of magpies, Behind the Scenes. |
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April 12, 2008 (#89)- The Death Show
Little Black Train
Nora Harrington - Independent Producer, USA
A year and a half after Nora Harrington's father died, at the age of 53, she was still trying to sort through her feelings about mortality. So she did something that most of us avoid: she confronted the topic head-on. She had a series of frank, intimate conversations about the end of life with a few elderly friends, her grandfather, and her mother. What results is a story that's sometimes profound, sometimes poignant, and sometimes surprisingly funny.
The Dead Can't Do You Nothin'
Katie Mingle - Independent Producer, USA
While in New Orleans, Katie Mingle poked around a pauper's graveyard -- even spent a night there -- hoping to encounter a ghost. Instead she befriended some gravediggers and learned a few truths about life and death in the Big Easy.
Live? Die? Kill?
Karen Michel - Independent Producer, USA
When someone dies, when someone is born, it's a little like the world stops turning for the people who are most closely affected. You can't help but think about the big questions: who are we, what is life about, why are we here... These things were on the mind of Karen Michel when she moved to Pleasant Valley, NY right after September 11th. She wanted to find out what was really important to people at this critical time. So she devised three very short, very big questions that got the heart of people's central beliefs and she started asking them.
Featured Music:
E*Rock, "Them What Do", Conscious
Colleen, "Everything Lay Still", The Golden Morning Breaks
Melodium, "Flacana 16", Flacana Flacana
E*Rock, "Lightest Blue", Conscious
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Read an interview with producer Nora Harrington and find a link to her senior thesis on ethnography and documentary radio. |
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Learn more about producer Katie Mingle, winner of the 2007 TCF Best New Artist Award, and see pictures from Holt Cemetery. |
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April 5, 2008 (#53)- The Feedback Show
Originally aired July 29 , 2006
Audio Rorschach
Aaron Henkin- Producer, WYPR
After interviewing Baltimore experimental musician John Berndt about his band Geodesic Gnome, producer Aaron Henkin was inspired to to 'administer' their abstract songs to a random sampling of volunteer test-subjects, in the tradition of the Rorschach test. (WYPR, 2006)
African Feedback
Alessandro Bosetti- Composer, Sound Artist
Sound artist Alessandro Bosetti traveled in West Africa with a cd player and selections of experimental, electro-acoustic and improvised music. He played the music through headphones for residents of Dogon and Mossi villages and simultaneously recorded their responses, from descriptions to imitations to periods of silence. Bosetti then used their "feedback" to produce a mesmerizing composition about cultural differences, the practice of listening and the dynamic relationship between voice and song.
Featured Music:
Tujiko Noriko, "White Film" Shojo Toshi (Editions Mego, 2002)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Bonfire on the Field," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
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Find out more about the making of African Feedback, and read some direct responses to the music from the villagers Bosetti interviewed, Behind the Scenes. |
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