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.
Chain of Missing Sounds
A sonic piece about the absence of sonicness.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Caleb Winebrenner
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
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 (A Wall With You)
Symphonic punk country disco.
- 2010
- 01:50
- Nick van der Kolk
All You Need is a Wall (Snoreasurus)
Recordings of not sleeping.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Jeremy Reichardt
Yellow Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues (Sat 11-5)
Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Jane Cramer
Bee a Good Neighbor - They'll Give You Gold
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Tom Allan
Chain of Missing Links - 32
An experimental jam using circuit-bent toys, laptop, and vocoder created at the weekly eSymposium hosted by Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot and held at Lizard's Liquid Lounge.
- 2010
- 02:47
- Steve Schwarz
Green Pilings
Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Liner
Green Fingers Gather
"Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - a nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learning resource."
- 2012
- 03:00
- Vaska Trajkovska
If Bob Was a Fruit, He'd Be a Yellow Quince
Sometimes neighbours impact our lives -- even when, at first, we don't notice.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Helen Kost
I Still Dream of My Grandfather's Red Roses
Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Phoebe Hart
Blue Blood on the Boulevard
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Michael Boland
The Red That's Left Behind
The house on the corner has an eccentric paint job. Who's behind it?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Lynne Segal
- Paul Exarhos
- Zac Cranko
Scaredy Cats (in Grey Scale)
While many people find their small feline neighbours endearing, this is the story of a man who finds them frightening.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Michael Savic
Doggie House Blues
There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.
- 2012
- 02:59
Redbricks and Weatherboards
I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Jaye Kranz
Whitey's Rules
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Eric Drachman
- Gideon Brower
Glass, Not Glitter
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Abby Wendle
The Green Tree Dervish
Photographer Gaylord Herron has traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also found fulfillment in his own backyard.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Abby Wendle
#0000ff is Blue
No music, no human voices, computers are the future.
- 2012
- 02:06
- Chris Pollard
Blue Radio Day 2012
Children voices calling to radio days.
- 2012
- 02:20
- Chuse Fernandez
Mother Nature's Blues
We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.
- 2012
- 01:58
- Alexandros Zervos
- Djinnie Timoleon
Sepia Elsie
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Aaron Sand
On the Day I Died It Was Mostly Blues
I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Alix Blair