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Southern Slices: Summer Institute Stories from CDS

From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Length: 54:00

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A collection of student pieces from CDS "audio camp," 2003 - 2007. Read the full description.

P1020775_small Radio-making isn't just for professionals. Every summer, several dozen people from across the country converge on the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to learn the skills of audio documentary work -- recording, shaping and crafting a piece, and mixing it on the computer. They get guidance and inspiration from seasoned producers. (They also tend to eat good barbecue and see a Durham Bulls baseball game.) This show pulls together seven of the best works made by those students -- many of them first-time producers. "Southern Slices" is hosted by CDS audio program director John Biewen.

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Piece Description

Radio-making isn't just for professionals. Every summer, several dozen people from across the country converge on the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to learn the skills of audio documentary work -- recording, shaping and crafting a piece, and mixing it on the computer. They get guidance and inspiration from seasoned producers. (They also tend to eat good barbecue and see a Durham Bulls baseball game.) This show pulls together seven of the best works made by those students -- many of them first-time producers. "Southern Slices" is hosted by CDS audio program director John Biewen.

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CDS Memories

Yes everyone makes an audio documentary at CDS but for me, learning the craft was secondary to experiencing the best of radio for a wonderful week.

The CDS staff and nationally celebrated producers curated a week of classics radio productions for our listenings. For the first time in my life, radio wasn't a solitary experience. It was a celebration with fellow radio-philes and the leaders of the field.

Sure, I made my first and second documentaries at CDS and they were a thrill. However, I will always consider myself a listener, instead of a producer of radio and CDS was (and will be again in the future) my mecca for experiencing great radio.

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Southern Slices

Thank you for such a great compilation of pieces.

Broadcast History

Debut. Commissioned by PRX for Reversioning Project. A shortened version of Katie Mingle's piece, The Dead Can't Do You Nothin', aired on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered, 10/28/07.

Timing and Cues

00:00 - 1:00 Run Billboard:
1:00 - 6:00 NPR news hole
06:00 - 59:00 Program
Contains built-in break and one-minute music bed at 25:17 (31:17 from top of hour)

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Orange Blossom Special Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop. DCN 2002 00:00
Joy Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Universal 1998 00:00
Jackson Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Universal 1998 00:00
Can't Let Go Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Universal 1998 00:00
The Pull Microphones It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water. K. Records 2000 00:00
#41 Dave Matthews Band Crash. RCA 1996 00:00
The Same Thing Muddy Waters Electric Mud. Chess 1968 00:00

Related Website

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/audio/index.html