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.
He also plays music in The Wingdale Community Singers, whose third album "Night, Sleep, Death" was just released by Blue Chopsticks Recordings.
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Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
In this radio drama, a middle-aged doctoral candidate named Irving Paley is obsessed with the Alamo (aka the Cube), a contemporary sculpture which sits on a traffic island in Astor Place in downtown Manhattan. During an interview with a "public radio reporter," Paley reveals how the Cube has slowly consumed his life, while back at Astor Place, a mystery around the sculpture deepens.
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.
A mix of fiction, fantasy and fact, The Dry vs. the Moist is an intercontinental collaboration between three artists: the U.S. writer Rick Moody, the Australian sound artist (and Radio Eye producer) Sherre DeLys, and pianist Chris Abrahams (the Necks).
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.
This hour: a few stories by author Rick Moody rendered in sound, plus a woman visits her friends' houses and talks with them about their books.
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
This hour: melodies from the world around us.*Note: due to rights issues, not all pieces in this show can be streamed on our website.
This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.
This hour: music, memory, lost love, and John Denver.
This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration.
This hour: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story, an audio experiment orchestrated by the Third Coast Festival in collaboration with cartoonist Matt Madden.
This hour: the 2003 and 2004 Third Coast ShortDocs, which focused on the themes of thirst and darkness.
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For the 2004 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "darkness."
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2004 Third Coast Conference