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June 26 , 2005 (#26)
Exodus ’47: Inside Out
Sean Cole- Senior Reporter, WBUR
This is the story of “Big Bill” Millman, Frank Levine, and Nat Nadler. Before there was an Israel, these three men, and nearly 40 others climbed aboard a rusted American ferryboat and set out from Philadelphia to transport thousands of Jewish holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine. Other ships had tried it. But their ship, which would come to be known as the Exodus 1947, was the one that helped shape the political landscape of the Middle East for the foreseeable future.
Interview with Sean Cole
Re:sound host Gwen Macsai talks with the producer of Exodus ’47 about the vagaries of memory, leaving a legacy, and elevating the personal narrative above the political mire.
Featured Music:
Colleen, “Floating in the Clearest Night,” The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf, 2005)
Colleen, “The Golden Morning Breaks,” The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf, 2005)
Guido Mobius, “Sweet Raphael (Edit),” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005)
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June 19 , 2005 (#25)- The Talent Show
Are There Any More Rare Plastic Ponies?
Julie Shapiro- Managing Director, Third Coast International Audio Festival
We go inside the world of model horse collecting, where plastic horses that are store-bought and factory-made are judged and awarded ribbons in public shows. They “compete” despite the fact that every horse is plastic and came out of a mold. Julie talked to competitors, judges, even the manufacturers, and for many of them, the distinction between real, live horses and fake plastic horses is a little…blurry.
The Mayor of Nichols
Gwen Macsai- Host, Re:sound
Last summer, Gwen went to family camp and ran into an old friend from Junior High. In the course of catching up, they talked about another friend of theirs from Junior High named Arthur Earl Hutchinson who had been killed by a Chicago Policeman in 2000. Later she looked into the story, and because the circumstances around his death suggested someone who was so not the person she remembered. Gwen became a little obsessed with finding out exactly what happened to him, and this is the result of her effort to get his story out into the world.
Featured Music:
Takagi Masakatsu, “Come March,” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005)
F. S. Blumm, “Lichten,” Lichten (Phantom, 2004)
Lullatone, “Wooden Toy Trumpet,” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005) |
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June 12 , 2005 (#24)- The God Show
Shadow of a Doubt
Jane Ulman- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
People have seen images of the Virgin Mary all over the world in the strangest of places: under the train platform, on the walls of buildings, in a grilled cheese sandwich. This is a lovingly constructed portrait of a town in Australia and what happened there when the image of Mary was sighted in a fence post. (ABC’s The Listening Room, 2003 )
If You Build an Oracle They Will Come
Julie Subrin- Producer, The Next Big Thing
Dean Olsher- Host/Producer, The Next Big Thing
A hardware store may seem like an unlikely place to find an oracle, but when you think about it, why not? A decent hardware store has something for everyone and so should any oracle worth its salt. So, when the electronic billboard above Pinchink's hardware store in Brooklyn started soliciting questions from passersby like a modern-day oracle, Dean Olsher was there to see how it all worked out. (PRI’s The Next Big Thing, 2004)
Of the Word God
Paul de Jong- The Books
Nick Zammuta- The Books
Musicians and found sound enthusiasts, The Books, distill a 60 minute sermon down to its elemental form.
The Gods of Times Square
David Isay- Executive Producer, Sound Portraits
Richard Sandler- Photographer/Independent Producer
If there is one place in the US that symbolizes the cathedral America has built to itself and its obsessions, it is Times Square: massive billboards crowding out the sky, teeming tourists and hawkers of every kind. Photographer Richar Sandler was drawn there to make a film who come to Times Square to explore the notion of God, to preach, proselytize, or pray. After shooting over 100 hours of footage, he ran out of money to finish the film. So he teamed up with Sound Portraits producer David Isay to make an audio documentary with the video footage he collected. (NPR’s All Things Considered, 1994)
Two Awesome Popes in a Row!
Re:sound producer Roman Mars shares his most recent audio obsession: twenty-one seconds of glorious audio tape from NPR’s coverage of the election of the new Pope. Awesome! (NPR's Morning Edition, 2005)
Featured Music:
Iron & Wine, “On Our Wings,” Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop, 2004)
Lullatone, “Puddles on the Playground,” Little Songs About Raindrops (Audio Dregs, 2004)
The Books, “It Never Changes to Stop,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
Autumn Thieves, “Bit O’ Monkai,” Autumn Thieves (Theft, 2005)
Sufjan Stevens, “Transfiguration,” Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre, 2004)
Sufjan Stevens, “All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands,” Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre, 2004)
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June 5 , 2005 (#18)- The ShortDocs Show
Originally broadcast April 10, 2005
Each year, the Third Coast International Audio Festival commissions stories based on a single topic. We call them “ShortDocs,” and in this edition of Re:sound, we feature several from 2004, when the topic was thirst, and 2003, when the topic was darkness.
Dinner at the Blind Cow
Adam Burke - Independent Producer
You're in complete darkness from the moment you enter. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, lead you to the bathroom. Some diners struggle, but others find the Blind Cow in Zurich, Switzerland, a sensory delight.
Memento Mori
Jude Fletcher - Independent Producer
Some members of producer Jude Fletcher's family have a fondness for taking pictures of the dead. And as eerie as this may seem, photographing the dead, or memento mori, was popular back in the nineteenth century.
Listening to Jamie
Hugh Levinson - Producer, BBC
Imagine a cold, London winter. Now listen as the bizarre and unpredictable sounds made by producer Hugh Levinson's sleeping newborn punctuate the dark in the most unimaginable ways.
Interview with Hugh Levinson
Gwen Macsai talks with Hugh Levinson about Listening to Jamie, and getting cheap laughs at the expense of his firstborn.
Hidden Messages
We bring you some hidden messages found in the proposals for the 2004 ShortDocs call for stories about darkness.
The Color Is Black
Rick Moody – Writer
Jerome Schmidt – Sound Designer
Rick Moody and Jerome Schmidt present darkness construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.
“And I Walked...” Stories from the Border
Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler – Independent Producers, Reporters, KNAU
In this story, the thirst for the American dream translates into a literal thirst for the scores of illegal immigrants who risk their lives to cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.
Featured Music:
Languis, “Half Way There,” Unithematic (Simballrec, 2000)
Rainstick Orchestra, “Powderly,” Floating Glass Key in the Sky (Ninja Tune, 2004)
E*Vax, “To Scale a Fish,” Parking Lot Music (Audio Dregs Music, 2001)
Featured Music: Beequeen, “Buzzbag Drive,” The Bodyshop (Important Records, 2005)
Credits Music: The Books, “Smells Like Content,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
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