Brendan Baker
Brendan Baker (@BrendanPBaker) specializes in creative editing and sound design for highly-crafted radio and podcast productions.
Director for Marvel’s Wolverine: The Long Night , and previously a producer for the critically acclaimed podcast, Love + Radio , his work his work has appeared on numerous radio programs including This American Life and Radiolab . His mixing and sound-design work can also be heard on The Message podcast and the first season of NPR’s Invisibilia . He has production credits on four of The Atlantic ’s “50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015,” and has received multiple awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
producer
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.
Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
This hour they built it and we see who came.
This hour: Storied pasts and double lives.
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition.
Nick Williams (who discovered the Jay Thunderbolt story and helped with editing), Nick van der Kolk (who interviewed Thunderbolt and produced the story), and Brendan Baker (who composed the music and sound design)
Sound Designer The Hospital Always Wins
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
presenter
Brendan Baker and Kaitlin Prest pull back the curtain on the alchemical process of combining stories and sound.
Just as our eyes work together to create a sense of depth perception, so too do our ears....
judge
Final round 2016 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Competition
The winners of the 2016 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition were selected from over 550 entries from around the world.
participant
November 7-9, Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, Chicago