More from Susan Barrett Price
The Auntie Song
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Folk song based on "Hush, Little Baby" without the hushing.
Kathleen's Machine: Home Audio Recording in the Days Before Tape
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as remembered and recorded by ...
How Crap Becomes Real (Or, How I Got Started On Ebay)
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From: Susan Barrett Price
We learned from the Velveteen Rabbit how toys become real. But all things become real and emerge daily from the secret source at the back of my closet.
War Rugs: What Little Girls Make
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Contemplating a war rug made during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Ellen Gibbons: Going vs Staying
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From: Susan Barrett Price
An immigrant story: longing for permanence but restless in pursuing it. My great-grandmother.
Write of Passage
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From: Susan Barrett Price
I wrote a novel in grade school. Then I threw it away. Childhood gives way to adolescence.
Foul Hook: My Fishing Lesson
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Short fishing tale from my stream behind the strip mall, a lesson not so much about fish
Wrong Moment for Silence
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Not being able to speak up to say the right thing at the right moment: a scene from high school
Remembering Charlotte, In The Rain
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Gender issues are one of childhood's mysteries. We look back and go hmm...
Jack Kerouac: Writing Lesson
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From: Susan Barrett Price
Jack Kerouacs's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose - a reading
Related Pieces
Piece Description
This sound project was prepared for the ShortDocs event of Chicago's Third Coast Festival, 2006. It is in mockumentary style: children in a behavior program speak up about respect, against the metaphorical soundscape of the Institution.
There is often a difference between what we assert and what we experience in the world around us — what we teach children and what they really hear.
The children's voices here are genuine — full of hope despite their histories of "disrespect" — recorded as part of another project. Their voices contrast with a simulated institutional background — chaotic, ironic — a metaphor for the clash of innocence and dismay.
Third Coast's "99 Ways to Tell a Story" was an experiment in documentary radio style and execution inspired by the French literary group Oulipo, in which constraints are used as a means of triggering ideas and inspiration. The constraints: (1) Produce a piece that starts: "To begin with, they never got along." (2) Incorporate 3 specific sounds (pre-recorded voice, a rhythmic noise, an exclamation). (3) Limit to 2 min 30 seconds.
Broadcast History
Broadcast repeatedly on :Vocalo (89.5FM, Chicago and Northwest Indiana), throughout 2008
