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Looking for more to listen to, wondering which mic you should request for your birthday, or curious about what radio sounds like in other countries? Well, then you’re in the right place. We encourage you to browse through this list of audio-relevant links to websites with all kinds of information you may find interesting, inspiring and/or helpful.
However, we by no means think this list is comprehensive. If you have a suggestion for another site we should link to, let us know!
Sites where you can hear audio work
Radio shows
Other resources and audio gatherings
Podcasts
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Sites where you can hear audio work:
American RadioWorks
American RadioWorks creates documentaries and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet, concentrating on major social and economic issues and significant cultural subjects.
B-Side Radio
B-Side airs on KALX in Berkeley, CA, and focuses on stories that aren't predictably covered by mainstream media while staying true to the show's overall mission: Having fun while making radio.
Battery Radio
Battery Radio is an audio production company specializing in documentary features, located in St. John’s, Newfoundland, at the bottom of the cliff where radio was born in 1901.
Falling Tree Productions
This is the homepage for London-based radio producer Alan Hall and his production company, Falling Tree Productions, where you’ll find a sizeable archive of BBC productions and other features.
HearingVoices.com
An amalgamation of all sorts of "radio audities," Barrett Golding's site showcases dozens of audio programs by a gaggle of producers, ranging in style from classic documentaries to audio cartoons.
ILoveRadio.org
This Canadian blog explains itself this way: “because television is for those who lack imagination.”
Inside Out
"Stories we know by heart, and those we never get to hear" - From Brown University in Rhode Island – a weekly look at life in Providence, exploring a different theme each week (i.e. modern nomads, nostalgia, junk).
Invisible Ink Radio
Delivering the best of the independent print world to the airwaves, Invisible Ink brings together local writers, national zine publishers and people on the street tell stories, and give social commentary, all against a backdrop of some damn catchy music.
Long Haul Productions
Chicago-based Long Haul's handmade radio documentaries reveal the extraordinary beauty in the ordinary, and pay homage to the complexities of everyday Americans' lives.
Lost and Found Sound
Lost and Found Sound presents a collection of richly layered stories that chronicle, reflect and mark the development of sound, and people’s relationship to it. The program includes endangered sounds, home recordings, powerful speeches - sounds that reveal a sense of place and mark the passage of time.
New American Radio
In its ten years as a weekly national series, New American Radio commissioned over 300 new and original works: conceptual new drama, experimental documentary, language explorations, environmental compositions and works that pioneer new dimensions in acoustic space.
Outright Radio
In collaboration with KUSP, Santa Cruz and KALW, San Francisco, Outright Radio presents hour-long radio specials featuring the stories of gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered folks.
Pacifica Radio Archives
The Pacifica Radio Archives Collection of over 40,000 audiotapes is the oldest collection of public radio programming the United States. The archive includes speeches, public affairs programs, documentaries, musical performances, commentaries and news coverage, some of which dates back as far as the 1950's.
Public Radio Exchange (prx.org)
PRX is a web-based marketplace for public radio programming. It allows programmers to find and air work from other stations, independent producers and international broadcasters, while also allowing producers -- station-based or independent -- to license their work directly to stations.
QuietAmerican.org
Take a very short vacation from your daily life. This site offers one-minute audio pieces documenting travels around the world, sketching in sound the experience of being in an unfamiliar place. "Please listen with headphones;" and also consider contributing to the collection ...
Radio Diaries
Radio Diaries, Inc. is committed to producing a new kind of oral history by working with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, the elderly, workers, prison inmates and people in the forgotten corners of America. The site also includes "how to" information about making radio diaries.
Radio Rookies
Radio Rookies is a WNYC program that trains young people from different neighborhoods in New York City to use words and sounds to tell true stories about themselves, their communities and the world.
Small Good Thing Productions
Small Good Thing is an online space for artists to share their work with others. It’s open to just about anything: audio, film, photography, graphic arts, creative Internet applications, and stuff its creators haven't even thought of yet.
Sound Portraits
Sound Portraits Productions is an independent production company dedicated to telling stories that bring neglected American voices to a national audience.
Soundprint
Soundprint is a weekly hour-long program and is the longest-running documentary series on public radio, broadcast nationwide and internationally.
Stories1st.org
Stories1st.org is an experiment, welcoming the personal narrative told in literary and audio art form. This is a venue that welcomes discussion, and is a place for writers, artists and producers to meet.
Talking History
Based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, Talking History’s mission is to provide the public with an outstanding collection of audio documentaries, speeches, oral histories, commentaries and other aural history resources.
Transom.org
Transom.org is a forum for channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, discussing that work and encouraging more. The site is designed as a performance space, an open editorial session, an audition stage, a library and a hangout. You’ll also find invaluable advice about the tools of the trade here – from microphones to editing software.
Youth Radio
Youth Radio promotes young people's intellectual, creative and professional growth through training and access to media. The site includes many links to other media-based resources for youth. |
Radio shows:
Blind Spot
A weekly show on WLUW 88.7 FM in Chicago, Blind Spot takes inspiration from the radio theater of the 30's and 40's but moves beyond traditional forms of radio by exploring the potential of the airwaves as a space for artistic practice.
Kunstradio
Kunstradio - Radiokunst is a weekly space for radio-art on the cultural channel of the Austrian National Radio (ORF) and online.
The Listening Room
From 1988 – 2004, The Listening Room was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s premier acoustic art program, providing an important space for the exploration of radio forms and imaginative program making.
The Next Big Thing
Full of unusual sounds and memorable voices The Next Big Thing is PRI’s weekly radio features magazine. Produced by WNYC, the show is a fascinating place to visit, full of little-known street corners, compelling stories, lively music, and original comedy.
Night Air
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Night Air is an ever-changing, 90-minute radio composition of music, sounds, ideas and stories. The program is a seductive mix of forms including monologues, poems, recipes, rants, weather reports and instrumental music.
Outfront
The CBC's Outfront tells radio stories about real life in ways that break the radio mold. You won't hear traditional storytelling, and you won't hear reporters or hosts – just real Canadian stories from real Canadian people.
Radio Eye
Broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Eye airs innovative documentaries and features that examine the events, ideas and trends in our current global society.
Radio Lab
Each episode of Radio Lab transports you to a different place, taking a kind of sonic joyride through that universe, meeting the people who inhabit that world. Driven by curiosity, Radio Lab takes a look at big ideas, often through a variety of little lenses.
Resonance FM
Check out London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. Resonance hit the airwaves and the ether in May, 2002, aiming to provide a radical alternative to the universal formula of mainstream broadcasting. It's still going strong and boasts an especially adventurous array of regular podcasts.
Theory of Everything
Independent producer Benjamen Walker brings his unique sensibilities to this weekly radio show, which airs on both coasts, and focuses on...well...everything.
This American Life
It's a weekly, hour-long show with a mission to document everyday life in this country. It’s sometimes thought of as a documentary show for people who normally hate documentaries, a public radio show for people who don't necessarily care for public radio.
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Other resources and audio gatherings:
Association of Independents in Radio - AIR
AIR is a diverse membership alliance of independent producers, programmers, marketers, stations, networks, teachers... in short, anyone committed to creativity and vision in public radio. Here you’ll also find a wealth of information and opinions about all walks of equipment and software available out there.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, produces and presents documentary work that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary life and culture. CDS also offers an annual intensive five-day workshop for anyone wishing to learn the basics of documentary radio-making.
Deep Wireless
One of the many elements of the New Adventures in Sound Art project, Deep Wireless is a Toronto-based, month long celebration of radio art including new commissions, special radio broadcasts, performances and sound installations, as well as a conference and workshops for radio and sound artists.
D.C. Listening Lounge
Listening Lounge was started by like-minded radio people in Washgton D.C. in the fall of 2004 as a forum for the encouragement of creative radio production and a place to learn more about the art and craft of radio. They meet once a month to share and listen to members' latest work and to continue an ongoing discourse on sound and radio. They occasionally offer public events as well.
Free103point9
Free103point9 is a nonprofit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts by promoting artists who explore ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression. The project includes an online radio station and the Wave Farm in Acra, NY, which is home to a summer performance series, artist residencies, skill shares, and special Online Radio performances.
International Features Conference
Here’s the offical website of the IFC, which started in 1974 in Berlin with Peter Leonard Braun, a German feature-maker of great vision. The site offers much more than a glimpse into the beautiful tradition and community of Radio Feature-making.
PublicRadioFan.com
Here you’ll find program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world.
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, in Portland, Maine, offers semester-length programs in non-fiction writing and editing, documentary photography, and documentary radiomaking, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
School of Sound
The School of Sound, in London, is a unique bi-annual event exploring the use of sound in film, which has attracted practitioners, academics and artists from around the world.
True/False Film Festival
Exploring fact, fiction, and what lies in between, the True/False Film Festival flickers to life in Columbia, Missouri, the city with the country's oldest journalism school. Yes, it’s a film festival, but we think the festival’s mission is relevant to the audio world as well.
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Podcasts
Note! We know there are hundreds of podcast versions of radio shows out there, but we're concentrating here on ones produced originally AS podcasts. And yes, we'd love your suggestions about others we should be linking to!
Big Shed
Your podcasting home for good voices, good stories, and good sound from independent producers, podcasters and audio artists.
Catalogue of Ships
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always offbeat and refreshing... a quirky weekly podcast featuring 'life stories' told by David Terry and remixed and scored by composer/sound designer Michael Kraskin.
CitizenShift
A variety of audio offerings - documentaries, first-person narratives, musical explorations - created by media-makers from Canada and beyond, about social issues of all kinds.
Love and Radio
"It's a total eclipse of the heart, motherfucker." (says Love and Radio. We agree.)
Nextbook
From Jewish minstrel songs to where overstocked knishes end up (prison mess halls), Nextbook's the premier destination for innovative, smart coverage of Jewish culture.
The Obscure News
The Obscure News has a whole bunch of crack reporters dedicated to bringing you the most esoteric news, sports, weather and commentary.
Theory of Everything
An ongoing attempt to understand the many diverse and seemingly unrelated threads that make up the human experience, as observed and crafted by the incomparable Benjamen Walker.
Tin Man
A surreal and beautiful parable about life, corporate domination and the human soul, featuring some familiar (sort of) characters from the Wizard of Oz.
ZBS - Meatball's Meatballs
Producer Tom Lopez describes these podcasts as "juicy and spicy audio meatballs," which we find very amusing. MM features goofs and outtakes, tales of recording in exotic locales, radio plays, interviews, songs and stories from the ZBS archives. Fair warning: this podcast will likely lodge the phrase "Meatball's meatballs" in your head for days.
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