I like this piece. It invites us into the writer/thinker's world, musing on internalities without becoming narcissistic. A writerly piece. The voice is nicely braided with sounds that place the musings in a very real physical place, where the singular problem to be solved happens to mirror the labyrinth that the writer brought to the jungle. The degree of complexity in the voice/sound mix is just right.
The grown up, though muddled attitude is perversely refreshing.
I think this producer should quit her job and figure out a way to live on mangos and make interesting sound.
Oh if it were as simple as pulling oneself along a cable.
Hmmm. Life is complicated, no?
The style of this piece is a straight forward interview, and in all the basics, it is completely competent and accessible, with nothing extraneous to detract from the content. It is exceptional for the qualities of the both the interviewee and the thoughtfulness of the questions asked her. The effect is encouraging. It doesn't push us farther to our own side of the political divide. It gives us examples and suggestions for taking positive action, in our personal lives and in the political world, in the direction of peace. Thank you for this valuable contribution to the human conversation.
This is an excellent piece, very simply made, about the mundane dehumanization that happens to soldier and civilian in any militarized system. I wish I could play this for all the young people I know in my small, poor, rural area who are planning to join the military when they get out of high school. My sincere thanks to this producer for sharing his experience, and his insightful reflection upon that experience. It is so relevant to the problem of terrorism. I have heard the results of a psychological study of suicide bombers. The main thing they had in common was the experience of witnessing one of their parents being humiliated by the 'other side'.
Comment for
"Military: Interrogator Interview" (deleted)
Review of Military: Interrogator Interview (deleted)
I am still shaking from having heard this piece. The intelligence in the young soldiers voice and the sensitivity of the interviewer's questions delivers a clear picture of what is going on in Iraq, unspun, unspinnable. I am grateful for this person's continuing service to his country by speaking out about his experience there.
Brilliant. This piece is as richly layered and poetically powerful as can be. A beautiful mixture of factual absurdity and fear fueled nightmare. Ah fear, and its infinite monsters.
This piece offers insight into the lives of immigrant youths and their parents. Its style is very simple, but shows great care and sensitvity. Whoever is working with these kids is doing a great job.
This is a refreshing, well-made piece. Relevant, fresh, and positive, doing what youth is supposed to do, which is to see through the hypocrisy in the world around them.
This piece is lovely, both sonically and in its content. It has a feeling of a CBC or Radio Nederlands sort of piece.......there is an assumption that the listener has an attention span. The pay-off for continuing through the rather odd quotidian entries of a nerdily passionate ornithologist is huge. You become acquainted with two very rare and special birds through the sounds they make while pursuing their exquisite existences in the bush. One is the Coacca (sp?) and one is the man whose life choices are made around finding and documenting its existence.
This piece is perfect if you are interested in changing the Earth Day discourse from the usual degradation/preservation antagonism.
Comments by linda tarr
Comment for "Dangling Woman"
linda tarr
Posted on December 31, 2006 at 09:02 PM | Permalink
Review of Dangling Woman
I like this piece. It invites us into the writer/thinker's world, musing on internalities without becoming narcissistic. A writerly piece. The voice is nicely braided with sounds that place the musings in a very real physical place, where the singular problem to be solved happens to mirror the labyrinth that the writer brought to the jungle. The degree of complexity in the voice/sound mix is just right.
The grown up, though muddled attitude is perversely refreshing.
I think this producer should quit her job and figure out a way to live on mangos and make interesting sound.
Oh if it were as simple as pulling oneself along a cable.
Hmmm. Life is complicated, no?
Comment for "A Conversation with Mairead Maguire: 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner [Peace Talks Radio Series]"
linda tarr
Posted on October 24, 2006 at 01:31 PM | Permalink
Review of A Conversation with Mairead Maguire: 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner [Peace Talks Radio Series]
The style of this piece is a straight forward interview, and in all the basics, it is completely competent and accessible, with nothing extraneous to detract from the content. It is exceptional for the qualities of the both the interviewee and the thoughtfulness of the questions asked her. The effect is encouraging. It doesn't push us farther to our own side of the political divide. It gives us examples and suggestions for taking positive action, in our personal lives and in the political world, in the direction of peace. Thank you for this valuable contribution to the human conversation.
Comment for "American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing"
linda tarr
Posted on April 14, 2006 at 02:50 AM | Permalink
Review of American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing
This is an excellent piece, very simply made, about the mundane dehumanization that happens to soldier and civilian in any militarized system. I wish I could play this for all the young people I know in my small, poor, rural area who are planning to join the military when they get out of high school. My sincere thanks to this producer for sharing his experience, and his insightful reflection upon that experience. It is so relevant to the problem of terrorism. I have heard the results of a psychological study of suicide bombers. The main thing they had in common was the experience of witnessing one of their parents being humiliated by the 'other side'.
Comment for "Military: Interrogator Interview" (deleted)
linda tarr
Posted on December 04, 2005 at 10:53 PM
Review of Military: Interrogator Interview (deleted)
I am still shaking from having heard this piece. The intelligence in the young soldiers voice and the sensitivity of the interviewer's questions delivers a clear picture of what is going on in Iraq, unspun, unspinnable. I am grateful for this person's continuing service to his country by speaking out about his experience there.
Comment for "HV Special: Mushroom Cloud (Atomic Age)"
linda tarr
Posted on July 28, 2005 at 02:24 AM | Permalink
Review of MUSHROOM CLOUD Atomic Age Special
Brilliant. This piece is as richly layered and poetically powerful as can be. A beautiful mixture of factual absurdity and fear fueled nightmare. Ah fear, and its infinite monsters.
Comment for "Family Separation"
linda tarr
Posted on April 26, 2005 at 09:32 PM | Permalink
Review of Family Separation
This piece offers insight into the lives of immigrant youths and their parents. Its style is very simple, but shows great care and sensitvity. Whoever is working with these kids is doing a great job.
Comment for "America- The Beautiful?"
linda tarr
Posted on April 06, 2005 at 11:33 PM | Permalink
Review of America- The Beautiful?
Great satire, just enough bite, but with an overall gentleness.
Comment for "where is the love? REMIXED"
linda tarr
Posted on April 06, 2005 at 11:20 PM | Permalink
Review of where is the love? REMIXED
This is a refreshing, well-made piece. Relevant, fresh, and positive, doing what youth is supposed to do, which is to see through the hypocrisy in the world around them.
Comment for "Grey Ghost"
linda tarr
Posted on April 06, 2005 at 11:02 PM | Permalink
Review of Grey Ghost
This piece is lovely, both sonically and in its content. It has a feeling of a CBC or Radio Nederlands sort of piece.......there is an assumption that the listener has an attention span. The pay-off for continuing through the rather odd quotidian entries of a nerdily passionate ornithologist is huge. You become acquainted with two very rare and special birds through the sounds they make while pursuing their exquisite existences in the bush. One is the Coacca (sp?) and one is the man whose life choices are made around finding and documenting its existence.
This piece is perfect if you are interested in changing the Earth Day discourse from the usual degradation/preservation antagonism.