The Transom Radio Hour - Experimenting With Sound

Summary:

One of 6 hour-long programs on the art and craft of radio with host Jay Allison, creator of the website Transom.org. This hour focuses on experimenting with sound with guest Benjamen Walker.

Website:

http://www.transom.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Producers, Pejk Malinovski with Viki Merrick. Host, Jay Allison. Production assistance from Emily Sapienza and the staff of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole Massachusetts, including Helen Woodward and Sydney Lewis. Thanks to the Cape and Island NPR stations. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by the Ford Foundation.

Tones:

Experimental, Informational, Quirky

Language:

English

Description:

This hour (newscast compatible) features Benjamen Walker, talking with host Jay Allison about pushing the edge with experiments in sound. Works include excerpts from Walker's series: The Theory of Everything; Time Delay from Jonathan Katz; Craziest by Liz Dubelman; Stress Test by Hans Anderson; Impersovader by Sean Cole and Benjamen Walker.

Note: An excerpt of piece accompanying the early part of the interview with Ben Walker contains wry references to venereal disease. No bad language, but might be offensive to some.

The Transom Radio Hour grows out of the web site Transom.org which is devoted to the art and practise of public radio. It's the first and only stand-alone website ever to win the Peabody Award. It's an open master class for story-telling in sound. Like the site, the radio series has a practical and instructional tone, encouraging people to do it themselves.

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