Third Coast Audio Library

Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories, episodes from Third Coast podcasts, educational sessions on craft from the best makers on the planet, and more.

We’ve also featured some incredible audio work beyond this audio library, in other ways and using other formats: don’t miss the 2021 Web Showcase, featuring a more in-depth look at the winners, judges and even a list of 40 finalists from the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competition.

Hong Kong Song

The sounds of the city resonate as Hong Kong comes to life through audio mosaic and three voices: a traveler remembers, newscasters rattle off facts and statistics, a young woman recalls a legend from her fading childhood.

2010
09:23
Jens Jarisch

All You Need is a Wall (For A Classroom)

A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.

2010
02:56
Aaron Sand

Chain of Missing Links - 33

Peter Wallace left the village of Leenane in the west of Ireland for the building sites of England and Germany in 1969 at 19 years of age; he came to live in Leeane once again in 2004.

2010
03:04
Colm Coyne

A Cold Freezin Night - 13

Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage.

2010
02:46
Michael Ferstenfeld

I Didn't Know That - 14

An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.

2010
03:01
Natasha Haverty

All You Need is a Wall (or at least one good idea...)

Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.

2010
03:01
Catie Talarski

A Cold Freezin Night - 14

A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.

2010
02:28
David Newman

A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)

2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.

2010
02:59
Andrea Silenzi

Chain of Missing Links (El Pájaro Volador)

Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.

2010
03:00
Brendan Baker

(For) A Cold Freezin Night

Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.

2010
02:50
Brendan Baker

All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)

2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.

2010
03:01
Niall Farrell

Chain of Missing Links - 34

A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.

2010
02:55
Neil Sandell

A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)

In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.

2010
03:10
Sarah Bromer

Chain of Missing Links - 35

After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.

2010
02:43
Milissa Orzolek

A Cold Freezin Night - 15

A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"

Chain of Missing Links - 36

A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.

All You Need is a Wall (Snoreasurus)

Recordings of not sleeping.

2010
03:01
Jeremy Reichardt

All You Need is a Wall (A Wall With You)

Symphonic punk country disco.

2010
01:50
Nick van der Kolk

Chain of Missing Links (and beyond)

Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.

2010
02:39
Dixie Treichel

All You Need is a Wall - 18

We remember some events as shockingly impossible, and yet just as easily, they could have happened to any one of us.

2010
03:05
Sue Muldowney

After the Wars: Bill Stenberg

Bill Stenberg says he was just "standing on the corner with a friend, the way guys do" when he decided to enlist in the military.

2010
05:51
Ben Calhoun

First Steps

Raising kids is one of life's biggest and most complicated adventures. Sometimes a basic task can present a monumental challenge - especially for new parents.