Cooler by the Lake

A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.

2009 ShortDocs Challenge: Chicago Sound Drops

2009 / Laura Vitale / Rick Moody / TCF, USA

A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.

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.


produced by

Laura Vitale

Laura Vitale is a multimedia artist and sound designer living in Brooklyn, NY.

Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a volume of essays On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening.


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