Special Features
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New Special Feature:
Women of Troy One advantage of the modern age is that good work travels fast; you may already have heard and seen “Women of Troy.” But if not, get thee to Transom and spend a few minutes. Then pass on the link. This remarkable slide show/poem/radio piece is part of In Verse, which arose from AIR’s Maker’s Quest. Transom’s feature is about the Making Of… and it includes commentary from all the collaborators—radio producer Lu Olkowski, editor Ted Genoways, poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally. And, we’re posting more work from this series… three powerful duets, made from poems and recordings of the people who inspired them. All airing on Studio 360 this weekend. Highly recommended. | |
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The Making of "The Corner"
Transom is working with the Association of Independents in Radio and producers from their Maker’s Quest to bring you behind-the-scenes reports. We’re starting with THE CORNER from Jenny Asarnow in Seattle. She writes, “The Central District is a lovely, lush neighborhood. But 23rd and Union is a ghost corner… I wanted to know why this place is the way it is. And I wanted to invite everyone who knew the neighborhood to collaborate in telling its story.” Jenny is a talk show producer at KUOW, but she wanted to find new ways to tell stories using sound, image, phone, web, and a public installation. Come see and hear what she did and how she collaborated. Get details on the things she learned, to wit: Go Multi Media, Go Public, Share Ownership, Embrace Your Role, Embrace Failure. Jenny is taking your questions. |
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Tribal Radio
Jesse Hardman and Maura O'Connor recently drove around the southwestern United States visiting some of the 33 Native American reservations that have their own radio stations. They said it became clear that "radio, often dismissed as outdated for the Web 2.0 era, was the most essential medium of communication in Indian country." Airchecks from these stations sound alive and connected, peopled by a real range of characters. On Transom, Jesse and Maura put together a report, full of photos and audio, and we also created two radio pieces. One is an NPR-style news magazine piece. The other is a Transom-style collage. Listen to both. Tell us what you think. On our discussion board, we'll be joined by some of the staff of the tribal stations and they'd like to hear from you. |
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Deep Wireless 2009
For the fifth time, Transom will cover Canada's Deep Wireless Festival -- "for those with a general interest in radio and transmission art, sound and radio artists and/or those who just want something more from radio." We are deploying a team of professional bloggers to keep you apprised and amused: Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Deep Wireless organizer and Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art; Andrea Silenzi, producer, blogger, and flip-ographer; and Justin Grotelueschen & Nick van der Kolk, both fresh off Megapolis (Nick also notes that he is a 13th level Paladin and wields a +4 Longsword (+8 vs. Ogres). Follow along and chime in. |
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Megapolis Festival 2009
Step right up. A full-blown audio festival right here in New England. Megapolis is a weekend-long celebration of audio art and craft (April 24-26), with workshops and events happening all around Cambridge, Massachusetts. The responsible parties are Justin Grotelueschen and Nick van der Kolk, familiar to Transom visitors from their past producing and blogging exploits. To chronicle Megapolis we’ve asked conference attendees Andrew Conner and Shawn Wen to post throughout. So, if you can’t make it, check in and post your questions for them. And if you can make it, pitch in. See you there, one way or another. |
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Scott Carrier
Our friend Scott Carrier is featured this week on This American Life. Here's a link to his first radio piece ever, about hitchhiking across the U.S. Scott was also our first Transom Guest ever; check out his issue of the Transom Review. |
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The SELF CINEMA Project
Transom, in association with Flik International Movie Festival, is seeking multi-media self-portraits to be featured at the festival and on the site. We'll offer honoraria to those we put on Transom. All stories must be non-fiction, under five minutes, and include both audio and visual components. The visual can literally reflect the story, or complement it – your choice. Along with your soundtrack, you can use photo slideshows, cut up old films and videos, animation, footage of locations or related imagery, or even a series of hand drawings. Whatever works for the story. |
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Deep Wireless 2008
For the third time, we sent Transom Bloggers to the Radio Without Boundaries Conference at Canada's Deep Wireless Festival. Our correspondent Justin Grotelueschen, web/podcast/audio/video man, has blogged the conference for us before and says it's the most inspiring event of its kind, full of enough art, ideas, and play to occupy both halves of your brain. This year, he'll be accompanied by Nick van der Kolk, self-described as "the main brain behind alt.NPR's Love & Radio, a freelance radio producer, documentarian, and man about town." Check out their reports from the front and ask them what's happening. |
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Third Coast Festival 2007
Don't miss David Maxon's blog including his interview with Ira Glass. ... if you can notice what's interesting, then the tape equipment is just, like, recording the conversations, and then you make a log and you look at, like, 'so, okay, what did I get?' and you make a list of your favorite points, and then you put them in an order and you play them for somebody else. That's radio." -Ira Glass |
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Radio Communities: The Other Side of The Electronic Divide
Radio Communities: The Other Side of The Electronic Divide Using radio to create community, creating community radio. Why expect radio to do this? It's malleable, anonymous, inexpensive to build, easy to trans... |
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