Posts by: BG– aka, Barrett Golding
HV050- Love’s Labors
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Scott Carrier · Amy Dickinson · David Greenberger · Kitchen Sisters · Kevin Kling · UbuWeb · Nancy Updike
Hearing Voices from NPR®
050 Love’s Labors: For Valentine’s Day
Host: Amy Dickinson of Chicago Tribune “Ask Amy”
Airs week of: 2012-02-08 (Originally: 2009-02-11)
Love’s Labors (52:00 mp3):
Affairs of the heart, and the intricacies of intimacy:
Lovelorn letters to an advice columnist, our Host, “Ask Amy.”
A “Valentine” from Kevin Kling (from his Stories from the Shallow End CD).
The Girls Glee Club of New Palestine High School, Indiana singing the theme from “Midnight Cowboy” (off the out-of-print Poly High – School Bands Play The Classics).
Women’s tales of true but tainted love, what Nancy Updike calls “Cringe Love”, from This American Life.
One of the “6 terrific teen-age tunes sung by Barbie and Ken (and you can sing along, too!),” a 45-rpm record from Mattel Toymakers (mp3 at UBU.com’s 365 Days Project- May 31).
Stereogranimator NYPL
The NY Public Library has come up with a Stereogranimator:
Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library.
Witness the Stereogranimator in action:
GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator
Made from this original stereograph:
Acrobats far from their mountain home — grizzly bears in a street at Jacksonville, Florida
ID: G90F124_047F – NYPL Digital Gallery
via Nan Rubin.
Clothesline Revival
It’s like these 1940s movies were made just so, 70 years later, they could accompany the music of Clothesline Revival:
Clothesline Revival has a couple HV connections. They helped create a mess in our Food Fight episode. And we produced the NPR Story “Clothesline Revival’s ‘Long Gone’” (also check NPR’s “Music Review: ‘Of My Native Land’ from Clothesline Revival“).
CR samples extensively from ancient audio archives, especially in their first two CDs, Of My Native Land
Clothesline Revival is Paleo Music: space | face.
HV052- Circus Blood
Hearing Voices from NPR®
052 Circus Blood: Under the Big Top
Host: John Dankosky of Connecticut Public Radio
Airs week of: 2012-02-01 (Originally: 2009-02-25)
Circus Blood (52:00 mp3):
A world-class troupe of audio daredevils and media magicians:
Host John Dankosky takes us to the circus in “Hershey Park Arena, Hershey Pennsylvania. I was 10 years old, and very, very worried.”
SF Chronicle journalist Jon Carroll interviews his daughter Shana as she hang upside down on her “Trapeze”, ready to fly away; from the Life Stories series by Jay Allison. (Shana started swinging with the Pickle Family Circus, about which her dad co-authored a book. She now flies for Les Sept Doigts de la Main.)
Joe Frank loves the lady “Lion Tamer,” an excerpt from his hour “The Dictator- Part 2” (show details).
Adam Rosen mixes a medley of the many versions of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Tokens, The Nylons, Miriam Makeba, Robert John, and Manu Dibango).
Tahrir Storify
“Voices from Tahrir”, a Storify list of sources, resources, sounds, inspirations, and videos used in the making of the public radio hour: More…
HV131- Voices from Tahrir
Hearing Voices from NPR®
131 Voices from Tahrir: Portrait of a Revolution
Host: Heba Morayef of Human Rights Watch
Airs week of: 2012-01-25
“Voices from Tahrir” (52:00 mp3):
Bread, Freedom, and Human Dignity:
January 25, 2011. One year ago, a revolution began in Cairo’s Tahir Square. For the next eighteen days, millions of Egyptians across the country would demonstrate in the streets, demanding the end of their 30-year dictatorship. They were inspired by Tunisians, whose protests, that same month, had forced out the authoritarian regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Now it was time for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to go.
A few weeks after the protests, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch interviewed some of the organizers of the January uprising: union leaders, civil rights workers, young social media activists, family members of of murdered protestors, and mothers who brought their kids to Tahrir to clean after the protests.. These Human Rights Watch interviews provide a rare, eyewitness account of a revolution, told by the Egyptian people, the activists, human rights defenders, and bloggers who persevered during those eighteen days.
The hour features recordings made in the square by reporters and citizen jounalists from around the world, including Daniel Finnan of Radio France Internationale, Al Jazeera, Egypt Daily News, Ramy Roof, and Matthew Cassel of Just Image.org.
Music: “Erhal (Leave)” and “Laugh, Revolution” by Ramy Essam; “Ezzay? (Why?)” by Mohamed Mounir and “Gomaa Hayran (Uncertain Friday)” by Joseph & James Tawadros
from the collection Our Dreams Are Our Weapons – Soundtracks of the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt
xkcd: Sustainable
For decades we in pubradio have been hearing about a mystical “sustainable” creature, s’posed to be lurking around our endeavors: sustainable series, sustainable projects, sustainable programs. Well, ‘cording to the latest xkcd, we’re not alone in constantly chasing but never finding that mythical phantom:
HV013- Crossing Borders
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Scott Carrier · Ann Heppermann · Marcos Martinez · Kara Oehler · quiet american · Luis Alberto Urrea
Hearing Voices from NPR®
013 Crossing Borders: From Mexico to US
Host: Marcos Martinez of KUNM-Alberquerque
Airs week of: 2012-01-18 (Originally: 2008-05-28)
“Crossing Borders” (52:00 mp3):
A Tale of Two Countries:
In “Sasabe,” a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants on their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona.
Luis Alberto Urrea reads from his books Vatos and The Devil’s Highway, about death in the desert.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña imagines “Maquiladoras of the Future,” fantasy border factories.
“And I walked…”, by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler, is a sound-portrait of Mexicans who risk their lives to find better-paying jobs in the United States.
And sounds from the Quiet American’s one-minute vacation.
