Sound Portraits/Archives
HV023- This Is Insanity
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: William S Burroughs · Scott Carrier · Joe Frank · Larry Massett · Sound Portraits
Hearing Voices from NPR®
023 This is Insanity: Disturbed Mental States
Host: Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2010-03-03 (Originally: 2008-08-06)
“This is Insanity” (52:00 mp3):
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A survey of disturbed mental states:
With the music of Disposable Heroes of Hiphopcracy (rapper Michael Franti and percussionist Ron Tse), from the 1993 CD Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales.
A first-person account from an anonymous reporter of his experience undergoing ElectroConvulsive Therapy.
Music from the Australian mashup/cut-up artists 2000 CD Since I Left You.
Our host travels the Utah backroads testing folk for schizophrenia.
The narrator is pathologically challenged by time, and the stories societies tell themselves, excerpted from the 2006 radio hour “Time’s Arrow.”
Howard Dully traces the reasons and repercusssions of his transorbital or “ice pick” lobotomy, a radical new procedure in the treatment of mental illness in this country, pioneered and performed by psychiatrist Walter J. Freeman.
Produced by Dave Isay and Piya Kochhar, with help from Larry Blood, Eliza Bettinger, Brett Myers, Jessica Tickten, Anna Goldman, Maisie Tivnan, Colin Murphy and Jonah Engle Narratored by Howard Dully; edited by Gary Covino. Jack El-Hai was project advisor. Special thanks to: Barbara Dully, Andrew Goldberg, Christine Johnson, Lyle Slovick & David Anderson at the GWU Gelman Library archives. Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
HV042- Yes to God
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Noah Adams · Beverly Donofrio · Sound Portraits
Hearing Voices from NPR®
042 Yes to God: Mother Mary & Thomas Merton
Host: Beverly Donofrio of Nada Hermitage
Airs week of: 2009-12-16 (Originally: 2008-12-17)
“Yes to God” (52:00 mp3):
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Sound-portraits of the Virgin Mary and a Trappist monk:
This week’s host reads a home for Christmas story from her book Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good (music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Christmas Eve, Sarajevo” & The First Noel” from Christmas Eve And Other Stories
In 1980 NPR traveled to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to talk to those who know Thomas Merton (), the Catholic writer (The Seven Storey Mountain) and Trappist monk.
Ms. Donofrio goes cross-country looking for those who see visions of the Virgin, a Sound Portraits production. More…
HV008- About Aging
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Bob & Ray · David Greenberger · Sound Portraits · StoryCorps · Youth Radio
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008 About Aging—
I Thought You’d Never Ask
Host— David Greenberger of Duplex Planet
Airdates— 2009-04-22 (Originally: 2008-04-23)
“About Aging” (53:00 mp3):
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Host David Greenberger of Duplex Planet presents glorious moments and observations from people in the last years of their lives:
Dave Alvin discusses the song he wrote about his dying father, “Man in the Bed,” from the Western Folklife Center’s What’s in a Song? series.
Comedians Bob & Ray are “The Whirleys”.
From StoryCorps comes a remembrance from Richard Craig of his days as a dance host on cruise ships.
In Sound Portraits “The Ground We Live On” journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality in recordings she made during her father’s last months alive.
And host David Greenberger shares some stories told him over the years by the elderly, including “Growing Old in East LA“.
HV043- Go By Train
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Jenny Asarnow · Ann Heppermann · Calvin Johnson · Kara Oehler · Sound Portraits · StoryCorps
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043 Go By Train— Riding the Rails
Host— Calvin Johnson of K Records
Airdates— 12/24/2008 – 12/31/2008
Go By Train (52:00 mp3):
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Musician Calvin Johnson (of the band Beat Happening, and owner of K Records) hosts train tales: More…
HV039- Portrait of a Plague
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: American Radio Works · Radio Diaries · Sound Portraits
HV039- Portrait of a Plague
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
039 Portrait of a Plague— For AIDS Awareness Day
Host— Joe Richman of Radio Diaries
Airdates— 11/26/2008 – 12/03/2008
Portrait of a Plague (53:00 mp3):
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The 1st of December
A Day Without Art
Sister Agnes Ramashiga makes her rounds at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto; 2000 patients check in daily, half are HIV positive. It’s “Just Another Day At the Biggest Hospital In the World,” a Radio Diaries by Joe Richman & Sue Johnson (Picture-Projects).
HIV-Positive teenagers, Tanya, Mark, and Tenisha, record audio diaries about living “The Positive Life”; produced by by Stephen Smith & Stephanie Curtis for American RadioWorks (photos and journals at ARW).)
Poet Lisa Buscani is “Counting” on her mom’s health advice, from the book Jangle and the CD Word Up
And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary (CD at Arkiv Music) by Laura Kaminsky is a compositon for viola, cello, piano, and for a narrator, reciting poems, biblical verse, and stories of Tamakloe, a warrior, tailor, and AIDS victim.
AIDS once meant death. Now improved treatments keep HIV-positive people alive for decides. So what’s that like, being brought back from the dead; as when Jesus revived his dead friend “Lazarus;” by Krandall Kraus from his book Book: It’s Never About What It’s About.
“Letters to Butchie” are a dying mother’s writings to a son she’ll never see, produced by Dave Isay Sound Portraits (music: Nick Drake).
Web Resources:
CDC (USA), Critcal Path, AVERT (UK), UN AIDS, Know HIV/AIDS, AIDS Diary, Visual AIDS.
Animations from Creative Time- Day Without Art: Web Action, top to bottom:
Ben Benjamin- Superbad & Chisato Uyeki- Chisa, Guthrie Dolin, Yoshi Sodeoka- Soundtoys, Friederike Paetzold- Iconogene, Lance Arthur of Glassdog.
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HV037- Prison
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Phillip Kent Bimstein · Chana Joffe-Walt · Radio Diaries · Sound Portraits
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
037 Prison— Life Behind Bars
Host— Joe Richman of Radio Diaries
Airdates— 11/12/2008 – 11/19/2008
Prison (53:00 mp3):
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John Mills is “Doing Time” (16:10) and Sergeant Furman Camel is “Serving 9 to 5″ (3:20 excerpt) two Prison Dairies (2001 CD | NPR series) from an inmate and a guard at Polk Youth Institution, North Carolina. John Mills is out now and co-hosts our hour with Prison Dairies producer Joe Richman. (Check the accompanying Picture Projects 360 Degrees, a multimedia “Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System.”
Voices and sounds of youth in “Lockdown!” (5:14) at Utah’s Washington County Crisis Center, a techno tone poem by composer Phillip Kent Bimstein (space).
Payton Smith’s calls her mom in prison to discuss “Not All Bad Things” (3:34), produced by Chana Joffe-Walt and Transom.
And “Tossing Away the Keys” (11:01) at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola Prison, is stories of lifers from Sound Portraits.
HV010- All Mom Radio
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Beverly Donofrio · Larry Massett · Sound Portraits · Nancy Updike
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
010 All Mom Radio— For Mother’s Day
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 5/7/2008 – 5/14/2008
All Mom Radio (53:00 mp3):
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For Mother’s Day, maternal tales from producers around the country:
“Travels with Mom” follows Larry Massett and his mother to the Tybee Island, Georgia of today and of the 1920’s, as recalled by Mrs. Massett.
Writer Beverly Donofrio joins her mom for “Thursday Night Bingo,” produced by Dave Isay of Sound Portraits.
In Nancy Updike’s “Mubarak and Margy,” a gay man returns home to care for his mom, and to the “cure” his family plans for his homosexuality.
And comedian Amy Borkowsky shares her hilarious phone “Messages from Mom.”
