Transom Podcast A showcase & workshop for new public radio tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, admin Running From Myself (produced by Louis with Anthony Mascorro) 2008-03-05T11:07:06Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.329 2008-03-05T11:07:06Z About this Feature There's something about Louis' voice; it's both wise and callow. It feels like he has the answers while he's searching for them. Louis used to rob people on the street, but he stopped. Now, he's trying... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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There's something about Louis' voice; it's both wise and callow. It feels like he has the answers while he's searching for them. Louis used to rob people on the street, but he stopped. Now, he's trying to reconcile the person he was with the person he is and wants to be. Louis worked with Anthony Mascorro at 826NYC to tell this powerful, complicated story. (By the way, it was nice for us to learn that Anthony acquired his editing chops at Transom.) We all hope you'll visit Transom to listen, and talk to Louis and Anthony about their piece.

]]> Creature Comforts 2008-02-22T15:46:13Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.327 2008-02-22T15:46:13Z About this Feature In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real people. Watch. Enjoy. And then come join the conversation at Transom.org.

]]> Creature Comforts 2008-02-22T15:18:34Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.326 2008-02-22T15:18:34Z About this Feature In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real people. Watch. Enjoy. And then come join the conversation at Transom.org.

]]> Creature Comforts part 2 (interview with Transom) 2008-02-20T16:25:36Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.325 2008-02-20T16:25:36Z Transom interviews the creative team behind Creature Comforts. admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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Transom is proud to welcome the creative team behind our favorite animated series, Creature Comforts. If you haven't seen it, get thee quickly to their Transom pages and catch up. This series comes from Aardman Animation in England (home of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc.), and is inhabited by claymation animals whose identities are derived from audio interviews with real people. There's a kinship between radio and animation, because we all imagine the source of voices we hear, and if our imaginations are free-ranging and whimsical, the voices might look like this.

Kit Boss, Richard "Golly" Goleszowski, and Dan Sinclair talk to Transom's Samantha Broun. The conversation is transcribed, illustrated with audio/video, and is downloadable in MP3. There's also a "Making Of" video, and all sorts of background and technique, including interviewing. And you can ask questions. This is good stuff. You'll like it.

]]> Creature Comforts (interview with Transom) 2008-02-11T10:44:29Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.323 2008-02-11T10:44:29Z Transom interviews the creative team from Creature Comforts. admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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Transom is proud to welcome the creative team behind our favorite animated series, Creature Comforts. If you haven't seen it, get thee quickly to their Transom pages and catch up. This series comes from Aardman Animation in England (home of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc.), and is inhabited by claymation animals whose identities are derived from audio interviews with real people. There's a kinship between radio and animation, because we all imagine the source of voices we hear, and if our imaginations are free-ranging and whimsical, the voices might look like this.

Kit Boss, Richard "Golly" Goleszowski, and Dan Sinclair talk to Transom's Samantha Broun. The conversation is transcribed, illustrated with audio/video, and is downloadable in MP3. There's also a "Making Of" video, and all sorts of background and technique, including interviewing. And you can ask questions. This is good stuff. You'll like it.

]]> Growing Old in East L.A. (produced by David Greenberger) 2008-01-02T16:24:43Z tag:www.transom.org,2008:/blogs/podcast/1.322 2008-01-02T16:24:43Z Conversations with the elderly in East L.A. admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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At Transom, we sometimes work to bring artists into radio. For more than 25 years, David Greenberger has been talking to old people in nursing homes and senior centers. He takes those conversations, transcribes them and renders them to music, so the words seem like found poems. We helped David on thos project called Growing Old in East LA with music by Los Lobos.

]]> After The Dumpster 2007-12-18T12:23:08Z tag:www.transom.org,2007:/blogs/podcast/1.321 2007-12-18T12:23:08Z A piece about an obsessive hoarder, trying hard not to be. admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS

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Melodie is an obsessive hoarder, trying hard not to be. This story about her is the kind of thing you don't hear much on the radio anymore. It's not exactly a narrative, there's no news peg, it's just a portrait of a person. It's Elizabeth Chur's first piece since getting out of school. She spent a lot of time on it, gathering 35 hours of tape for a twelve-minute portrait. Like Melodie, she had a hard time letting it go. These are efforts worth knowing about.

]]> An Evening of 75 Laughs with Jonathan Katz 2007-11-27T17:19:33Z tag:www.transom.org,2007:/blogs/podcast/1.320 2007-11-27T17:19:33Z About this Feature Transom wants talented people to try public radio. When we first featured Jonathan Katz's audio work, he was making funny little pieces in his attic studio. Then, we helped him produce a fake call-in show ,... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS Jonathan Katz

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Transom wants talented people to try public radio. When we first featured Jonathan Katz's audio work, he was making funny little pieces in his attic studio. Then, we helped him produce a fake call-in show , with his friends--David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Al Franken, David Mamet, et. al.--playing the callers. Now, we've produced a radio hour from Jonathan's stand-up performance at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features Tom Snyder, Bill Braudis, Tom Leopold, H. Jon Benjamin and others. It also features lots of jokes about Multiple Sclerosis, a disease which Jonathan has had for many years. Don't worry, it's funny... funny enough that you didn't have to be there. Judge for yourself.

]]> http://www.transom.org/shows/2006/200605_evening_of_75_laughs/ Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West 2006-04-12T12:58:42Z tag:www.transom.org,2006:/blogs/podcast/1.252 2006-04-12T12:58:42Z About this Feature In this piece Laquoia Simmons, a self described at risk teenager," meets and briefly interviews renowned academic and public intellectual Cornel West. In this insightful piece, Laquoia reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West

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In this piece Laquoia Simmons, a self described at risk teenager," meets and briefly interviews renowned academic and public intellectual Cornel West. In this insightful piece, Laquoia reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and discusses what it was like to be an 'at-risk' young woman meeting a writer who writes so much about the so-called 'at-risk' population. In this personal and intellectual piece, she talks about family, betrayal, humiliation, and inspiration.

]]> http://www.transom.org/shows/2006/200603_voice_of_youth/ Voice of Youth: This New Game 2006-03-27T19:40:00Z tag:www.transom.org,2006:/blogs/podcast/1.251 2006-03-27T19:40:00Z About this Feature This piece addresses the recent phenomenon of "cutting" from the inside perspective of a teenager, Amanda Wells, who believes that no one is really getting at the heart of the problem or explaining what it feels... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS Voice of Youth: This New Game

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This piece addresses the recent phenomenon of "cutting" from the inside perspective of a teenager, Amanda Wells, who believes that no one is really getting at the heart of the problem or explaining what it feels like to cut your own body. In this sound collage, she focuses on the fundamental urge to self-mutilate and what it would take for someone to stop, while hinting at some secrets from her own life.

]]> http://www.transom.org/shows/2006/200603_voice_of_youth/ Voice of Youth: Our Name is Rogelio Bautista 2006-03-13T19:55:30Z tag:www.transom.org,2006:/blogs/podcast/1.250 2006-03-13T19:55:30Z About this Feature This story was written a month after the murder of 16-year-old Rogelio Bautista by four 14 year old kids who grew up with him in Southwest Santa Rosa California. David Velediaz, Julio Hernandez, Maria Marquez, and... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS Voice of Youth: Our Name is Rogelio Bautista

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This story was written a month after the murder of 16-year-old Rogelio Bautista by four 14 year old kids who grew up with him in Southwest Santa Rosa California. David Velediaz, Julio Hernandez, Maria Marquez, and Luis Vargas painstakingly pieced together their memories of him to create the story of his life and death. In this piece they chronicle his life through his voice, from his experiences as an immigrant to his initiation into a gang, and finally his death. The piece also documents the community as they grapple with Rogelio's death and the questions that it raises.

]]> http://www.transom.org/shows/2006/200603_voice_of_youth/ Twenty One 2006-01-19T14:18:38Z tag:www.transom.org,2006:/blogs/podcast/1.249 2006-01-19T14:18:38Z "What would you do if somebody told you to make a movie about your life?" admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS Twenty One

From January 2006 - Transom offers tools and advice to help people tell their stories, but does not presume to suggest what those stories might be about. This new piece by Katie and Nubar is an audio-visual self-interview around the question: "What would you do if somebody told you to make a movie about your life?" It ponders this from the vantage point of being twenty-one years old, the age that, by law in this country, we are loosed upon the world and may be expected to answer for ourselves. What will we say?

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]]> http://www.transom.org/shows/2006/200601_twenty_one/ The Tomato & the Big Apple 2005-10-16T20:43:21Z tag:www.transom.org,2005:/blogs/podcast/1.213 2005-10-16T20:43:21Z About this FeatureFrom June, 2004 - This high-concept trip follows a tomato from Florida to New York... and, well, sort of back again. Download the MP3 Stream the MP3 Visit this Feature Page Discuss this Feature in TALK... admin http://www.transom.org transomadmin@prx.org HIGHLIGHTS The Tomato & the Big Apple

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From June, 2004 - This high-concept trip follows a tomato from Florida to New York... and, well, sort of back again.

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    From May, 2003 - Adventures in bad-ass commercial rock radio studios too early in the morning. Jen Trynin shares a day in the life of a would be up & coming pop star.

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    From December, 2003 - Sue Mell is an artist and writer and she's also been a stand-up comedian. This is her first radio piece. It's not funny. It's about the aftermath of a friend's murder, and the desire for resolution.

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