Roberts, Dmae/Archives
HV007- The Earth Sings
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
007 The Earth Sings — For Earth Day
Host— Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airdates— 2008.04.16-2008.04.23
The Earth Sings (53:00 mp3):
Host Dmae Roberts of of Stories1st.org, for Earth Day, presents Sounds for and from Mother Earth:
The Quiet American takes an audio trek through Nepal”s “Annapurna” Circuit.
Host Dmae Roberts records Maori music and culture. We hear Pulse of the Planet’s “Extraordinary Sounds From the Natural World.”
And from Gregg McVicar and the Earthsongs series: Sioux Soprano Bonnie Jo Hunt layers opera over insects (on Robbie Robertson’s Music for the Native Americans), and the band Pamyua mimics creature calls.
HV003- Her Stories
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Meryn Cadell · Kitchen Sisters · Dmae Roberts · Sonia Sanchez · Susan Stone · Jake Warga · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
002 Her Stories— For Women’s History Month
Host— Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airdates— 2008.03.19-26
Her Stories (54:00 mp3):
The Kitchen Sisters go to “Tupperware®” parties.
A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS‘s radio soap Saratoga Springs.
Jenifir returns “Home From Africa” with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal, produced by Jake Warga.
Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about “Sisters.”
In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of “Ruby” and her husbands.
And Sonia Sanchez, Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.
Music from Tara Key’s Ear & Echo.
Reparations
In this week’s HV cast— A woman sits cross-legged, panhandling on a busy city sidewalk. She takes money only from white folks, and gives it to blacks who pass by. Her sign reads: “200 Years of Slavery in the United States. Reparation payments accepted here.” damali ayo is a street performance artist. “I offer people a convenient opportunity to pay for the unpaid labor of African Americans.” This piece is part of her “living flag” project. A story by Dmae Roberts and damali ayo, “Living Flag- Reparations” (9:02 mp3):
White Temple
This week’s HV cast: A woman’s song on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan, leads the producer to the outskirts of town, to climb the rock steps of the White Temple. There, high in the clouds, one hundred voices are singing a salutation to the Buddha. A story by Dmae Roberts, “”White Temple- Taiwan”" (mp3 1:51):
