http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/ The stories we tell can act as a window or a veil: They can expand our tiny worlds and expose us to people or ideas we wouldn't have otherwise encountered; or they can further our myopia, justify our pre-existing worldview and entrench us further in our own isolated beliefs. Needless to say, audio storytelling is at its best when it does the former. The episodes included here are some of the more engaging stories I've ever encountered as a listener, each uniquely fearless in style and story. For me they are a blueprint, for others perhaps a map. But they are leading somewhere, and doing so with an admirably brave abandon, expanding perception one hard-fought inch at a time. Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:56:25 +0000 en-US © 2016 RadioPublic The stories we tell can act as a window or a veil: They can expand our tiny worlds and expose us to people or ideas we wouldn't have otherwise encountered; or they can further our myopia, justify our pre-existing worldview and entrench us further in our o Radiotopia Radiotopia hi@radiopublic.com The stories we tell can act as a window or a veil: They can expand our tiny worlds and expose us to people or ideas we wouldn't have otherwise encountered; or they can further our myopia, justify our pre-existing worldview and entrench us further in our own isolated beliefs. Needless to say, audio storytelling is at its best when it does the former. The episodes included here are some of the more engaging stories I've ever encountered as a listener, each uniquely fearless in style and story. For me they are a blueprint, for others perhaps a map. But they are leading somewhere, and doing so with an admirably brave abandon, expanding perception one hard-fought inch at a time. The stories we tell can act as a window or a veil: They can expand our tiny worlds and expose us to people or ideas we wouldn't have otherwise encountered; or they can further our myopia, justify our pre-existing worldview and entrench us further in our own isolated beliefs. Needless to say, audio storytelling is at its best when it does the former. The episodes included here are some of the more engaging stories I've ever encountered as a listener, each uniquely fearless in style and story. For me they are a blueprint, for others perhaps a map. But they are leading somewhere, and doing so with an admirably brave abandon, expanding perception one hard-fought inch at a time. RadioPublic hi@radiopublic.com no No http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/awful-grace-sound-as-1-1.jpg http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/ https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-mystery/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:46:44 +0000 Sherre DeLys http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2829 I began studying the work of Australian artist Sherre DeLys after interviewing Third Coast co-founder Julie Shapiro some years back. Shapiro was effusive about a work named “Containers” by DeLys, a 9-minute collage of industrial slams and whirs recorded at a shipping yard. This and “If”, included here and acclaimed by everyone with good taste – most notably Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad – are a manual on the limitless creative potential of the medium. Though both non-narrated works dabble in the avant garde, they are as emotional as they are abstract, much like the equally great documentary films “Koyaanisqatsi” and Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog.” When people who are new to audio storytelling ask me what makes it great, this is one of the first works I discuss.

]]> I began studying the work of Australian artist Sherre DeLys after interviewing Third Coast co-founder Julie Shapiro some years back. Shapiro was effusive about a work named “Containers” by DeLys, a 9-minute collage of industrial slams and whirs recorded at a shipping yard. This and “If”, included here and acclaimed by everyone with good taste – most notably Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad – are a manual on the limitless creative potential of the medium. Though both non-narrated works dabble in the avant garde, they are as emotional as they are abstract, much like the equally great documentary films “Koyaanisqatsi” and Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog.” When people who are new to audio storytelling ask me what makes it great, this is one of the first works I discuss.

]]> I began studying the work of Australian artist Sherre DeLys after interviewing Third Coast co-founder Julie Shapiro some years back. Shapiro was effusive about a work named “Containers” by DeLys, a 9-minute collage of industrial slams and whirs recorded at a shipping yard. This and “If”, included here and acclaimed by everyone with good taste – most notably Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad – are a manual on the limitless creative potential of the medium. Though both non-narrated works dabble in the avant garde, they are as emotional as they are abstract, much like the equally great documentary films “Koyaanisqatsi” and Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog.” When people who are new to audio storytelling ask me what makes it great, this is one of the first works I discuss.

]]> I began studying the work of Australian artist Sherre DeLys after interviewing Third Coast co-founder Julie Shapiro some years back. Shapiro was effusive about a work named “Containers” by DeLys, a 9-minute collage of industrial slams and whirs recorded at a shipping yard. This and “If”, included here and acclaimed by everyone with good taste – most notably Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad – are a manual on the limitless creative potential of the medium. Though both non-narrated works dabble in the avant garde, they are as emotional as they are abstract, much like the equally great documentary films “Koyaanisqatsi” and Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog.” When people who are new to audio storytelling ask me what makes it great, this is one of the first works I discuss.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Sherre DeLys tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/292491236 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-metaphor/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:46:15 +0000 Radiolab http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2828 Radiolab, like most successful storytelling podcasts, is able to marry mainstream popular taste with an advanced artistic sensibility. This episode, along with some other canonical hour-long episodes of theirs from this period, advanced audio storytelling years beyond where it was in the earlier parts of the decade through ingenious sound design and an unintimidating approachability to their subject matter. Jad Abumrad was a visionary and, perhaps most importantly, a leader with a specific vision for both the future of his show and the possibilities of the medium. His relentless success has been both impressive and, seemingly, inevitable.

]]> Radiolab, like most successful storytelling podcasts, is able to marry mainstream popular taste with an advanced artistic sensibility. This episode, along with some other canonical hour-long episodes of theirs from this period, advanced audio storytelling years beyond where it was in the earlier parts of the decade through ingenious sound design and an unintimidating approachability to their subject matter. Jad Abumrad was a visionary and, perhaps most importantly, a leader with a specific vision for both the future of his show and the possibilities of the medium. His relentless success has been both impressive and, seemingly, inevitable.

]]> Radiolab, like most successful storytelling podcasts, is able to marry mainstream popular taste with an advanced artistic sensibility. This episode, along with some other canonical hour-long episodes of theirs from this period, advanced audio storytelling years beyond where it was in the earlier parts of the decade through ingenious sound design and an unintimidating approachability to their subject matter. Jad Abumrad was a visionary and, perhaps most importantly, a leader with a specific vision for both the future of his show and the possibilities of the medium. His relentless success has been both impressive and, seemingly, inevitable.

]]> Radiolab, like most successful storytelling podcasts, is able to marry mainstream popular taste with an advanced artistic sensibility. This episode, along with some other canonical hour-long episodes of theirs from this period, advanced audio storytelling years beyond where it was in the earlier parts of the decade through ingenious sound design and an unintimidating approachability to their subject matter. Jad Abumrad was a visionary and, perhaps most importantly, a leader with a specific vision for both the future of his show and the possibilities of the medium. His relentless success has been both impressive and, seemingly, inevitable.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Radiolab http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/ http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-manipulation/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:45:21 +0000 Love + Radio http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2827 Love + Radio’s Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker are in peak form here, using their now famous style to both confound the listener, further the narrative arc and, frankly, show how clever they are as producers. We can forgive them the last point – as I often do with L+R episodes that are too cute for their own good – because everything else in this piece is a wonder to experience. Nuance, anger, disgust; the listener runs the emotional gamut in this challenging, beautifully-produced profile of a morally ambiguous blackmailer.

]]> Love + Radio’s Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker are in peak form here, using their now famous style to both confound the listener, further the narrative arc and, frankly, show how clever they are as producers. We can forgive them the last point – as I often do with L+R episodes that are too cute for their own good – because everything else in this piece is a wonder to experience. Nuance, anger, disgust; the listener runs the emotional gamut in this challenging, beautifully-produced profile of a morally ambiguous blackmailer.

]]> Love + Radio’s Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker are in peak form here, using their now famous style to both confound the listener, further the narrative arc and, frankly, show how clever they are as producers. We can forgive them the last point – as I often do with L+R episodes that are too cute for their own good – because everything else in this piece is a wonder to experience. Nuance, anger, disgust; the listener runs the emotional gamut in this challenging, beautifully-produced profile of a morally ambiguous blackmailer.

]]> Love + Radio’s Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker are in peak form here, using their now famous style to both confound the listener, further the narrative arc and, frankly, show how clever they are as producers. We can forgive them the last point – as I often do with L+R episodes that are too cute for their own good – because everything else in this piece is a wonder to experience. Nuance, anger, disgust; the listener runs the emotional gamut in this challenging, beautifully-produced profile of a morally ambiguous blackmailer.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Love + Radio tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/80233342 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-deception/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:44:56 +0000 Re:Sound http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2826 The first three minutes of The Real Tom Banks is perfection. It is the first audio story I can remember using all the tools of cinema so effectively to begin an episode. It should be listened to, admired and applauded for its ambition. (Start at 22:42 to hear this story.)

]]> The first three minutes of The Real Tom Banks is perfection. It is the first audio story I can remember using all the tools of cinema so effectively to begin an episode. It should be listened to, admired and applauded for its ambition. (Start at 22:42 to hear this story.)

]]> The first three minutes of The Real Tom Banks is perfection. It is the first audio story I can remember using all the tools of cinema so effectively to begin an episode. It should be listened to, admired and applauded for its ambition. (Start at 22:42 to hear this story.)

]]> The first three minutes of The Real Tom Banks is perfection. It is the first audio story I can remember using all the tools of cinema so effectively to begin an episode. It should be listened to, admired and applauded for its ambition. (Start at 22:42 to hear this story.)

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Re:Sound tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/180117142 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-intimacy/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:44:28 +0000 Love + Radio http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2825 Though many would argue that The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt will go down as Love and Radio’s magnum opus, I would argue otherwise. Thunderbolt, though it is as interesting an eccentric portrait as you’ll encounter in the podcast world, lacked enough of a conventional narrative arc for my emotional reaction to evolve past amused, disgusted curiosity. The Living Room has no such failures. It is a masterpiece, and perhaps not coincidentally one of sound designer Brendan Baker’s more threadbare productions. It is a window in every sense. Wondrous.

]]> Though many would argue that The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt will go down as Love and Radio’s magnum opus, I would argue otherwise. Thunderbolt, though it is as interesting an eccentric portrait as you’ll encounter in the podcast world, lacked enough of a conventional narrative arc for my emotional reaction to evolve past amused, disgusted curiosity. The Living Room has no such failures. It is a masterpiece, and perhaps not coincidentally one of sound designer Brendan Baker’s more threadbare productions. It is a window in every sense. Wondrous.

]]> Though many would argue that The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt will go down as Love and Radio’s magnum opus, I would argue otherwise. Thunderbolt, though it is as interesting an eccentric portrait as you’ll encounter in the podcast world, lacked enough of a conventional narrative arc for my emotional reaction to evolve past amused, disgusted curiosity. The Living Room has no such failures. It is a masterpiece, and perhaps not coincidentally one of sound designer Brendan Baker’s more threadbare productions. It is a window in every sense. Wondrous.

]]> Though many would argue that The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt will go down as Love and Radio’s magnum opus, I would argue otherwise. Thunderbolt, though it is as interesting an eccentric portrait as you’ll encounter in the podcast world, lacked enough of a conventional narrative arc for my emotional reaction to evolve past amused, disgusted curiosity. The Living Room has no such failures. It is a masterpiece, and perhaps not coincidentally one of sound designer Brendan Baker’s more threadbare productions. It is a window in every sense. Wondrous.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Love + Radio tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/194123200 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-canon-2/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:43:58 +0000 Re:Sound http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2824 Taken as a whole, the year 2011 had an undeniably powerful influence on my development as a listener and a producer. Though I was still some years off from creating my own work, nearly every piece featured in this “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival shaped me in some way. Whether it’s Andy Mills’ enchanting “Kohn,” Ben Calhoun’s nuanced and engrossing “Patriot Games,” the single best story Radiolab has ever told in “Finding Emilie,” or the aforementioned “The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt,” this collection is sacred text.

]]> Taken as a whole, the year 2011 had an undeniably powerful influence on my development as a listener and a producer. Though I was still some years off from creating my own work, nearly every piece featured in this “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival shaped me in some way. Whether it’s Andy Mills’ enchanting “Kohn,” Ben Calhoun’s nuanced and engrossing “Patriot Games,” the single best story Radiolab has ever told in “Finding Emilie,” or the aforementioned “The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt,” this collection is sacred text.

]]> Taken as a whole, the year 2011 had an undeniably powerful influence on my development as a listener and a producer. Though I was still some years off from creating my own work, nearly every piece featured in this “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival shaped me in some way. Whether it’s Andy Mills’ enchanting “Kohn,” Ben Calhoun’s nuanced and engrossing “Patriot Games,” the single best story Radiolab has ever told in “Finding Emilie,” or the aforementioned “The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt,” this collection is sacred text.

]]> Taken as a whole, the year 2011 had an undeniably powerful influence on my development as a listener and a producer. Though I was still some years off from creating my own work, nearly every piece featured in this “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival shaped me in some way. Whether it’s Andy Mills’ enchanting “Kohn,” Ben Calhoun’s nuanced and engrossing “Patriot Games,” the single best story Radiolab has ever told in “Finding Emilie,” or the aforementioned “The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt,” this collection is sacred text.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Re:Sound tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/36101534 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-canon/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:43:34 +0000 Re:Sound http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2823 Part 2 of the “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2011.

]]> Part 2 of the “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2011.

]]> Part 2 of the “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2011.

]]> Part 2 of the “Best of the Best” collection from The Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2011.

]]> clean No no no 0:00 Re:Sound tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/36101896 http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/podcast/sound-as-suffering/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:42:28 +0000 Awful Grace http://podcasts.radiopublic.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2822 Judge not lest ye be judged. Lastly, a piece of my own. After listening to all the wonderful pieces that have inspired me over the past five years, I hope you’re able to hear some of each of them in New Jerusalem, a work that defines who I am as a creator at this point in my career – for good or ill.

]]> Judge not lest ye be judged. Lastly, a piece of my own. After listening to all the wonderful pieces that have inspired me over the past five years, I hope you’re able to hear some of each of them in New Jerusalem, a work that defines who I am as a creator at this point in my career – for good or ill.

]]> Judge not lest ye be judged. Lastly, a piece of my own. After listening to all the wonderful pieces that have inspired me over the past five years, I hope you’re able to hear some of each of them in New Jerusalem, a work that defines who I am as a creator at this point in my career – for good or ill.

]]> Judge not lest ye be judged. Lastly, a piece of my own. After listening to all the wonderful pieces that have inspired me over the past five years, I hope you’re able to hear some of each of them in New Jerusalem, a work that defines who I am as a creator at this point in my career – for good or ill.

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