ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
Chain of Missing Sounds
A sonic piece about the absence of sonicness.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Caleb Winebrenner
A Cold Freezin Night - 14
A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.
- 2010
- 02:28
- David Newman
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
Chain of Missing Links (& More)
Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...
- 2010
- 03:01
- Jennifer Brandel
All You Need is a Wall - 17
There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Lauren Kirby
I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)
Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Lacy Roberts
All You Need is a Wall - 15
A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Alexander Stephens
Chain of Missing Links - 29
A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Erik Laar
I Didn't Know That - 13
I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Jennifer Deer
All You Need is a Wall - 16
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Frances Willick
Chain of Missing Links - 30
Twin Peaks to Tanzania: an aural stream of conscious.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Lauren Kirby
Chain of Missing Links - 31
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Katy Giebenhain
- Sue Muldowney
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
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
I Didn't Know That (art)
When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Peggy Keiner
A Cold Freezin Night - 12
A nostalgic recollection of a late night out driving around and swimming with friends a few summers ago back on Cape Cod, where I grew up.
- 2010
- 01:24
- Matthew McVickar
A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.
- 2010
- 03:10
- Sarah Bromer
All You Need is (gum on) a Wall
A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.
- 2010
- 02:35
- Emily Eagle
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
Chain of Missing Links - 22
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jessica Grosman
Chain of Missing Links - 21
Unheard conversations of axons and dendrites.
- 2010
- 01:14
- Foster Gesten
A Clothing Frenzied
Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.
- 2010
- 01:53
- Ben Zimmerman
Chain of Missing Links - 12
In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Glenn Simonsen
I Didn't Know That (A Father's Conversion)
A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.
- 2010
- 01:40
- Tina Antolini
A Cold Freezin Night - 3
A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Carolina Wheat