Beat Street

An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.

2009 ShortDocs Challenge: Chicago Sound Drops

2009 / Chris Sewell / TCF, USA

An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.

Commissioned by Third Coast for the Chicago Sound Drops collection - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination.

Hear all 13 Chicago Sound Drops.


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Chris Sewell

Chris Sewell is a writer and producer who used to live in Chicago, but now calls Seattle home. He's good for about one audio piece a year. Maybe two.


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