Lilia is Listening aired on an episode of CBC's Love Me called In the Distance. Sound Design and mixing by Cristal Duhaime. Editorial support from Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis. Sara collects sounds of her son, her second child, during the first year of his life. Laughter, cries, shrieks of joy... Her first child never made much sound. She died three days after she was born. The story explores Sara's connection to both children as she listens to the sounds of her family and grieves for the sounds that are missing.
We Are Sending You Light is a window into the world of “bedside singers” thru the specific lens and stories of the group Eventide from Greenfield, Massachusetts. Eventide is a volunteer choir of people mainly between the ages of 50 and 80 years old. They surround people who are very ill or on the edge of death and sing to them to make their present and their passage more easeful. They sing to groups of people in nursing homes and mental institutions and they do private sings for people who are bed bound. This story is a sound portrait of the power of sound and song when delivered to people at the edges of their own lives. This story originally aired on the podcast Rumblestrip: https://www.rumblestripvermont.com/2017/04/we-are-sending-you-light/
Through a collection of interviews and voicemail, waitstaff in San Francisco share stories about their restaurant regulars. This piece originally aired on The Splendid Table and was supported by the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
An immersive audio journey into the perspectives of San Francisco waitstaff. This radio story originally aired on KCRW's Good Food. It was supported by KCRW's Independent Producer Project and the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Many Thanks to Nick White for additional edits and final mixing. And thanks to the amazing humans interviewed for this piece. Music in this piece is as follows: Charley's Quote by Cal Tjader Trio Shake it and Break it by Lanin's Southern Serenaders Dinah by Django Reinhardt Valse A Bambulo by Gaucho A Death of a Revolution by Quantic White Clouds (Day's Rhodes More Traveled edit) by HF One Day-Instrumental by U.G.K Photo Info: “Restaurants – Baroness refugee from Germany working as waitress at Five and Ten-Cent Restaurant” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. (1935–1945).
This personal documentary integrates found sound and voice memos that I recorded, bound together by an essay about a magical connection with a bus driver. All of these things I wrote and recorded in order to ground me during the most powerful grief and complex love I've ever known. This piece originally aired on KCRW's UnFictional program. Editorial help by Leila Day and additional mixing by Nick White.
Viola Morse, a lifelong Vermonter, died last year. After living in the same town for ninety-nine years, she must have left quite an imprint. State of the Re:Union set up a voice-mail box so Viola’s friends, family, and admirers could share their memories in their own words. This first piece in our new audio obituary series was produced by SOTRU intern Sara Brooke Curtis.
Dave Hayes is a “social media-rologist”. He has no meteorology degree, but posts dense and poetic weather updates on Facebook where he’s grown quite a following. Hear how one man uses his computer to bring western Massachusetts together and protect them from the elements. This story was a collaboration with Neighbors Podcast from Nashville Public Radio and it originally aired there: http://neighborspodcast.com/blog/dave-the-weather-nut516