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Sound Design from Hell
From Jonathan Mitchell | 06:00
confessions of a Hollywood sound designer
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Steve Boeddeker has been a film sound designer for ten years. His work has been heard in films like "The Village," "Seven," and the re-release of "The Exorcist."
This segment was recorded in 2001, around the time Boeddeker was working on the film "From Hell," directed by the Hughes brothers. In this piece, he demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene.
This segment was originally produced for Studio 360, and first aired in June, 2002.
It has also been heard on:
KQED's Hot Soup (2003)
WBEZ's re:Sound (2004)
Third Coast Festival website (2003)
"I saw the obituary while I was recycling the newspapers."
From Joseph Dougherty | Part of the Handwritten Theatre series | 16:37
A cold, rainy, winter night in Los Angeles and a friend comes over late to see you. There's something she needs to talk about. You give her a glass of wine and sit down with her. She talks, you listen."
Part of a continuing series of brief dramatic pieces originally composed in a small black notebook with a fountain pen.
Wry and enigmatic, playful and thought-provoking, "Handwritten Theatre" is a series of brief dramatic works that began in the notebook of an award winning dramatist.
Writer-Director Joseph Dougherty won an Emmy for his work on the groundbreaking series "thirtysomething." His plays have been produced by Manhattan Theater Club and at Lincoln Center. In the detailed miniatures of "Handwritten Theatre" he's found a stimulating new way to tinker with language and perception.
Produced in Los Angeles with a pool of gifted actors, each "Handwritten Theatre" episode is self-contained and produced with royalty-free original music. Programmable anywhere, they're perfect for shows surveying the performing arts scene, or as a challenging treat for late night audiences.
Honest, triumphant...and pornographic
From Susan Johnston | 13:29
When is literature pornography, and pornography also literature?
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Suki Lee is an Ottawa-based author and curator. "Through Winter Sun" was first published as part of "With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn" (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005, Trish Kelly and Amber Dawn, editors), and was voted one of Ottawa's Best Books of 2005 (Ottawa Xpress). Lee shared her views on her craft, with Susan Johnston. The interview also includes excerpts of Lee reading from the story.
Reviews:
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
"the writing here is superb, far superior to that of many "erotic" anthologies... It is proof that smart women can write porn and call it porn, and in doing so, allow one more stigma to crash to the floor."
FAB MAGAZINE
"With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn is a collection of fiercely, occasionally violently, sexy but cerebral hard core, mainly by established-but-edgy authors including Anna Camillieri, Nalo Hopkinson, Suki Lee and Michael V. Smith..."
Lucy and the Bike Girl
From Hillary Frank | 10:27
Lucy can never meet her best friend in person because it might cut her life expectancy in half.
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Lucy, a 28-year-old with cystic fibrosis, meets the "Bike Girl," who has the same disease, in an Internet chat room. They are both, against the advice of friends and doctors, trying to get pregnant. They quickly become friends but can never meet in person, because the Bike Girl carries a bacteria in her lungs that is toxic to anyone with cystic fibrosis. This piece is an experiment in combining fact and fiction. The interview tape is all from a real interview; the narration is semi-fictional.
Gagged
From Joan Schuman | Part of the Speech Acts series | 01:02
A fictional inquiry by a gagged voice about the dead stories we tell.
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After listening to the sounds of cloth being ripped and cut and ultimately used to gag someone, a muffled voice wonders about the dead stories we tell. Sound-rich and eerily real, the voice returns in two other parts of the "Speech Acts" series ("Bound" and "Stutter"). "Gagged" can be aired alone, but is best played as a whole series, total length: 27:03.
Suggested airplay order is as follows:
1. Bound
2. Echo
3. Gagged
4. Silence
5. Stutter
Lonni: the Body Waxer
From Evan Roberts | 03:35
Lonni describes her job as a Body Waxer.
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- Lonni: the Body Waxer
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Part of SF Works!, a series on San Franciscans and their unconventional jobs.