New Show:
A Trio of Podcasts To complement Curtis Fox's current Manifesto on Podcasts, we're featuring a few interesting examples of the genre submitted to Transom over the past year or so.
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Fake City, Real Dreams
Zak Rosen is a radio producer. Neil Greenberg is a map-maker. They're both from Detroit, but their hearts are in a different city, a city they think is possible--at least in the imagination and maybe in reality. The radio piece they made together treats this place as if it were real. It is a creative exercise that hints at a plausible future. Fake City, Real Dreams is unlike any "arts feature" you've heard before. |
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How Are You Who You Are?
The Nadeaus were, to most eyes, an ideal family--enlightened, brilliant, prosperous. But then things turned upsidedown. In a remarkable series of events, Doug and Lynn Nadeau were forced to re-define their identities, to confirm the foundation of their love. |
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Running From Myself
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. |
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Blunt Youth Radio
At Transom, we often feature work by and about young people. We are in a kind of golden age of youth radio these days, with groups working all over the country, many of them offering a chance to be heard to people who don't usually have it. That's good for them and for the rest of us. These programs are often more than just simple training; they capitalize on radio's therapuetic qualities of talking and listening, and determining what's true. Since 1994, Blunt Youth Radio has been working with kids in Maine. As founder Claire Holman says, Blunt is about, "youth empowerment through direct media access. The key is for our members to take responsibility for creating the show—from the first idea, to the features, to the live broadcast. It's their show." |
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Not Guilty: Life After Exoneration
Joining Final Sale from Samantha Broun and Neal Menschel is Not Guilty an audio-slide-show made by photographer Vance Jacobs and radio producer Evan Roberts. It tells the story of Rick Walker, falsely accused of murder and held in maximum security prison for 12 years. The story covers a six month period of Walker's life as a free man. The blend of images and sound is simple and delicate, an invitation to listen and see. |
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Final Sale
In the coming weeks, we're pairing some new radio/visual pieces with Ben Shapiro's Guide to Multimedia production on Transom. The first comes from Transoms own Samantha Broun, working with photographer Neal Menschel. It's a quiet, loving portrait of the last working day at a perfectly old-timey general store in Massachusetts. It's a bit uncanny, because after its done, you feel like you were there. The way the sound plays around the images feels almost like memory. Come see and hear for yourself. It's called Final Sale. |
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Shortlists
A Short List is made from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell us at the end what the list WAS. It's a story, with the title at the end. It might be funny, poetic, political... you decide. The grace of these bits is in the mystery. |
