Dyana, Goddess of the Moose Hunt
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Ingredients for a doozy of a radio story: 1. Take a seasoned and somewhat crusty moose hunter. 2. Add a wide-eyed first-time huntress. 3. Toss in a student radio reporter. 4. Stir vigorously with increasing heat on bumpy logging roads in the Maine woods ...
Cody Appleseed
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Allison Swaim gets sound. Pun intended. She understands it and she knows how to record it to tell a story. In the fall of 2008, Allison produced a piece about a guerrilla gardener --- a guy named Cody who illegally plants trees ...
Sleepover!
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »The girls not sleeping at the sleepover. Photo by Maureen Wellner I don't know about you, but I have no recollection of sleepovers. It's a lost period of time in my pre-teen life. Poof. Erased. Producers Hillary Frank and Jonathan Menjivar knock ...
What If?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on What If?Kevin and James Hatch in 2005. Photo by Kyle Glover, courtesy the Salt Archive. r Radio producer Joe Richman says when producing a radio story you "cast" for characters. It's like "trying" people out. You look for people who know the ...
Silence Among Friends
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Silence is radio's worst enemy. Or so the thinking goes. In fact, some commercials stations have alarms that sound when the station goes silent for more than a few seconds. So, imagine my surprise when Joni Murphy said she wanted to ...
The Angel Warrior On His Way to the Top
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Angel Warrior On His Way to the TopThe Angel Warrior and his chariot. Photo by Maisie Crow, courtesy the Salt Archive. r "The Angel Warrior on His Way to the Top" has one of my favorite opening moments in a Salt piece. I especially like ".... thank you and ...
Studs, Natasha, and the Power of Sound
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Studs Terkel waxing about "vox humana" in Storycorps' mobile recording booth. r At the start of the semester at Salt, we start big, really big. After listening to a few radio pieces and introducing ourselves, we talk about sound. The power of ...
The Sound of Democracy
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Banging out a tune on the Portland Public Library piano. Photo by Cecelia Duchano courtesy the Salt Archive. r For her interview on this Saltcast, Elizabeth Chur holed up in her closet. That's pretty common actually. Independent producers without access to a ...
Come Soul, I Have Need of Thee
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Folk singer Kendall Morse woos his partner, Jacqui. Photo by Jen Leahy, courtesy the Salt Archive. p "... To most journalists honored with the job of remembering the stories of the tribe, (the) momentous events of everyday life are virtually invisible. ...
I’m Relatively Human
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on I’m Relatively HumanMarty Hagland, a transgendered woman, says it was a long time before her neighbors accepted her. "It took them a good three years to finally realize that I don't bite. At least not very hard. And, if you stick a ...
