inspiration (audio)

Inspiration

We will be working on audio for the next few weeks, so lets begin collecting some sharable links.

Here are a few:
1. Quiet American: http://www.quietamerican.org/introduction.html
[fieldrecordings]

2. Sounds from New York: http://www.soundsofnewyork.com/

3. Sound artifacts from _Lost and Found Sound_: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/audio/index.html

4. "Worlds of Sound": A Tribute to Folkways: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96820123

[story about sound collector Moses Asch (Folkways Records)]

5. "Daisy Ad" Creator Tony Schwartz Dies (2008): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91562400

6. Tony Schwartz, 30,0000 Recordings Later (Lost and Found Sound: A Man Who Stayed in the Neighborhood): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3602539

7. An *incredible* resource for innovative uses of sound--in art, in science, "sound mapping" (ala google maps, etc), sound art, "soundscapes."
http://www.acousticecology.org/soundscapelinks.html

8. Audio Postcard: The National Hollerin' Contest"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723224

earlier report on the National Hollerin' Contest: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076273

7. "My T-shirt Says It All" (audio): http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2009.asp
Interesting audio about something that's visual, through and through. How cool is that?

8. This American Life
http://www.thislife.org

One fascinating example: "Accidental Documentaries" (7/13/07)
another: "Twentieth Century Man": http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1207

Also interesting: "The Audio Picture Show," especially "A Sense of Place"
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2004.asp

9. Shortlists ("A Short List is made from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell su at the end what the list *was*").
http://transom.org/?p=4

10. Podcasts: http://transom.org/?p=149

(and video): Home Movie Day--10.17.09: http://www.homemovieday.com/
More on home movie day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1398009

Tips
--for recording in the field: http://www.quietamerican.org/links_diy-rec_tips.html
--on storytelling (from This American Life host Ira Glass): http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/03/ira_glasstips_o.html