Transom TCF 2004 – Archive (16)

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Truth on Stage, Fiction on Radio

November 5 2004

When I first read the conference description, the session that I was most eager to check out was Truth on Stage. Tom Lopez played a bunch of great pieces that were all works of fiction, but each sounded real. The discussion in my session tended to revolve around style choices in the pieces, but I still find myself out of step when it comes to the issue of having fiction on radio. Am I the only one who simply doesn't care if a radio story is true or not? Someone commented during the session that ...

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FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: A Message from Julie Atomic (Shapiro)

November 2004

So now that we've had some time to decompress some about the conference here at Third Coast HQ (and utterly DEPRESS about the state of things in general) I wanted to share a thought with whoever may want to respond. Two international guests at the...

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Inspiration

October 2004

As David Isay and Alex Kotlowitz wrapped up their discussion on Friday someone in the audience asked David what "advice" he had for independent radio producers. His Answer: Public radio producers should never take no for an answer and always keep in ...

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Film and Radio

October 2004

The Two Towns of Jasper

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PRX Party

Friday Night 2: Electric Boogaloo

October 2004

You have been warned.

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Conference attendees

Friday night

October 2004

Good times last night, many of us are still rubbing our eyes. The Joe Frank performance was amazing. The theater at the Art Institute was the perfect venue for Joe to perform his magic. It was a multimedia performance, music and video and a dancer...

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Drink Bacardi at the after party

October 2004

In this epsiode: Joe Frank inspires, PRX raises the roof, and Benjamen gets surly.

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Nubar Alexandian at podium

pictures on the radio

October 2004

Nubar Alexanian is a photographer who has only recently started making radio. This is a picture of Studs Terkel that he took 2 years ago at Third Coast.. Nubar says normally he doesn't like to take pictures of people standing at podiums: "that's d...

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Image As Metaphor

October 2004

In this episode: We discuss the role of metaphor in storytelling. Sometimes a parrot is not just a parrot.

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Conference panel

Darkness

October 2004

This is the second year that the Third Coast Festival has commissioned original work - or "short docs" Julie Shapiro says they received 120 proposals - they chose 4 and now the festival is opening with a session on "darkness" Jay Allison is up on sta...

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