The Salt Student Blog » Radio http://blog.salt.edu Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:19:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 David Lynch, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse. seriously. http://blog.salt.edu/david-lynch-danger-mouse-sparklehorse-seriously http://blog.salt.edu/david-lynch-danger-mouse-sparklehorse-seriously#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:33:53 +0000 Andy http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1420 Multimedia from the one and only David Lynch!

http://www.dnots.com/

joined with aforementioned Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and friendly with The Shins, Flaming Lips, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixie & Iggy Pop.

And here is a great article on its release, controversy, and general greatness:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104129585#commentBlock

In light of both this release and the new Jonsi album,
2010 is looking like it going to be a transcendent year.

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pro-tools.
pro-tools.

all those brightly colored blurry lines make you beg for a break?!
(please note use of alliteration)

well, my esteemed colleagues, here are some distractions from one pleasantly distracted:

1. music:

http://www.myspace.com/natehenrick

2. video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg

3. words:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/15eggers.html

and let’s remember to love one another.
ok?

ok!

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/time-machines/feed 2 Some radio treats from Fall 2009 http://blog.salt.edu/some-radio-treats-from-fall-2009 http://blog.salt.edu/some-radio-treats-from-fall-2009#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:27:23 +0000 Caitlin http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1050 PRX (click here). 'Fiddle-icious' by Molly Haley Fiddle-icious 'Hide and Seek' by Amanda Thieroff Hide and Seek]]> Here are a couple of radio pieces from Fall 2009! Check out all the radio work from this semester and past ones at PRX (click here). 

‘Fiddle-icious’ by Molly Haley
Fiddle-icious

‘Hide and Seek’ by Amanda Thieroff
Hide and Seek

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/some-radio-treats-from-fall-2009/feed 0 the saltcast…NOT! http://blog.salt.edu/the-saltcast-not http://blog.salt.edu/the-saltcast-not#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:06:10 +0000 Caitlin http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1024 Salt graduation happens the day after the final gallery opening. I can’t tell you exactly what it entails (top secret!), except that each track gets five minutes to represent themselves. This semester, the radio track went all out with a parody of the Saltcast…I wish I could take credit, but the truth is I was tweaking my stories until the last second and didn’t do much to help put this little piece of brilliance together. graduation

But I sure do like it! I’ll never look at a bathtub full of pudding the same way again.

(If you’re wondering about the REAL Saltcast that inspired this take-off, you can find it HERE)

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/the-saltcast-not/feed 0 Puppy Rescue http://blog.salt.edu/puppy-rescue http://blog.salt.edu/puppy-rescue#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:03:03 +0000 Samantha Silver http://blog.salt.edu/?p=967

A clip from my audio documentary on the naturist community here in Maine. Harry Dixon is an 86-year-old naturist from Lewiston. He told me about his first time going to a nude resort.

I had to let this one go from my final piece because I didn’t know where it would fit… but I knew it could have a place somewhere.

catch the real deal Friday December 18th (todayish/tomorrow) 5-8. 561 Congress Street in Portland, ME.

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/puppy-rescue/feed 1 Couches and Clones http://blog.salt.edu/couches-and-clones http://blog.salt.edu/couches-and-clones#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:46:07 +0000 Sarah Buckingham http://blog.salt.edu/?p=885 In honor of Laura and Audrey’s Couch-Warming/Pre-Salt Listening Party, which I am sorry to say I had to miss, I thought I’d post one of my own pre-Salt pieces. If I remember correctly, this is the one I sent in with my application to Salt; as per party regulations. I just listened to it for the first time since it was originally produced over a year ago in Yellow Springs, Ohio. I’ve definitely learned a lot about narration while being at Salt! And what the hell was I thinking making a three and a half minute vox pop?!

Would You Eat Cloned Meat?

Would You Eat Cloned Meat?

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/couches-and-clones/feed 0 participant observation http://blog.salt.edu/participant-observation http://blog.salt.edu/participant-observation#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:48 +0000 Amanda Thieroff http://blog.salt.edu/?p=873 I’m working on a story right now about a magician – a real interesting, charasmatic guy. But, I find that while I’m always trying to stick a microphone (or sometimes a camera phone) in his face, he’s always trying to impress me with a new trick. Card magic! Close up magic! Illusions!

Today, after having asked him to sit for a tedious 2 hour interview, I decided I would finally indulge him. Perhaps not surprisingly, I suck at magic. I fail to notice a lot of things. I even walked past the big Christmas tree in monument square without acknowledging its presence. But I like to think it was my subject’s adeptness and sleight of hand that made me especially befuddled by the coin trick he performed.

I also learned a bit of insider magic that I’ll share with y’all – if some jerk (like me) asks you “how’d you do that?!” after you perform a particularly stellar trick, the appropriate response is, “very well, thanks!”

TheGreatStephan-clip

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/participant-observation/feed 0 radio alum interview: Catie Talarski http://blog.salt.edu/radio-alum-interview-catie-talarski http://blog.salt.edu/radio-alum-interview-catie-talarski#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:14:20 +0000 Caitlin http://blog.salt.edu/?p=813 A couple of weeks ago, when I should’ve been feverishly working on my first story but couldn’t handle any more without some sort of unpleasant brain implosion, I gave a call to Catie Talarski, a Salt radio alum from 2005, to see how things have been going since her semester here. She is now a senior producer for a morning news talk show called “Where We Live” on Connecticut Public Radio (check it out HERE).  

Catie produced two pieces while at Salt; for her first, she followed a group of teenagers at the Preble Street Teen Center as they worked on rehearsing and performing a play they had written based on their experiences.  Her second piece was a non-narrated story about an accordion band called the Maine Squeeze.

Check out Catie’s Salt pieces HERE and HERE. 

 
And check out what she had to say riiight here!

 

On life after Salt…    talarski1

 

Did Salt change things for you after you left?talarski2

 

The gift that keeps on giving… talarski3

 

Any advice for current and future Salties?  talarski4

 

Thanks Catie!

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/radio-alum-interview-catie-talarski/feed 0 “Thank God Everybody Is Different” http://blog.salt.edu/staring-at-a-computer-screen-ive-found-my-niche-in-life http://blog.salt.edu/staring-at-a-computer-screen-ive-found-my-niche-in-life#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:04:26 +0000 Andrew Weeks http://blog.salt.edu/?p=770 My Niche In Life

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/staring-at-a-computer-screen-ive-found-my-niche-in-life/feed 0 60 degrees in Maine in November?! http://blog.salt.edu/60-degrees-in-maine-in-november http://blog.salt.edu/60-degrees-in-maine-in-november#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:38 +0000 Caitlin http://blog.salt.edu/?p=755 For the past two days, all of Salt got together in the Red Room for a critique session of every single person’s story. Having 35 people giving you their opinions about your piece is kind of scary, but so so helpful–it was a pretty unique experience to be able to carve out time for everyone to show/play/read their piece and have a roomful of people who want nothing but to help them make it better go at it. It’s been surprisingly easy this semester to get rid of any traces of ego to just absorb people’s input and use it to make myself better, but as the weeks go on, and there is a LOT of critiquing, it’s easy to get frustrated since I know that what I’ve got isn’t living up to the beautiful, nuanced, earth-shattering work I’m doing in my imagination. In general though, I feel like the more feedback I’m getting, the more worth I’m getting out of Salt–and watching this video the other night in the midst of an all-night script ripping-apart-and-putting-it-together-again session was really heartening.

 Ira Glass on Storytelling #3 

 

stressed_catI really cannot believe there are only four weeksish left—I’ve definitely learned a ton, but it’s all gone so fast and I feel like I (and my stories) are still nowhere near where I want them to be. Feeling good and excited about what’s next, but also a lot like this most of the time:

 

 

The past few weeks have been big for Salt radio alums— Greg Warner won best news feature at Third Coast (HERE) and Zoe Chace had another piece aired on All Things Considered (CLICK HERE TO LISTEN). Even though I can’t imagine getting there, these two, and all the other Salt alums now working in radio, writing or photo, were once right where we are now. Good sign, right?

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