HowSound Live!
A HowSound first: a live recording in front of an audience. The guest is Michael May who talks about his story "Death of a Bangalore Law Student."
Oct 02, 2014•27 min
Sound School Podcast
The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
Episodes
Compassionate Release
Natasha Haverty talks about her path from reporting on dairy princess pageants to award-winning investigative stories on prisons for North Country Public Radio in upstate New York.
Sep 17, 2014•20 min
The Hitchhiker
On this HowSound, Scott Carrier, Alex Chadwick, and the legendary story behind Scott's first radio piece "The Hitchhiker," produced in 1983.
Sep 03, 2014•35 min
Hard To Say
On this episode, a 2004 "Best New Producer" award-winner from Third Coast and a real tearjerker produced by Bente Birkeland.
Aug 27, 2014•11 min
Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
The staff at Studio 360 dissects the production, writing, and voicing of their recent broadcast from 1914.
Aug 06, 2014•16 min
3rd Grade Audio
Stories about drawing, getting old, stuffed animals, and what to do when you get a magnet stuck up your nose. It must be David Green's "Third Grade Audio."
Jul 23, 2014•17 min
Five Things
If I had to pick a story for a "Top Ten Favorite Student Features," "Five Things" by Matt Largey would be one of them because of the incredible intimacy.
Jul 09, 2014•13 min
Walking with the Voses
Producer Jakob Lewis on "parachuting in" to produce a story about a funeral and a grieving family.
Jun 25, 2014•21 min
Love Is A Battlefield
Interviewing tricks and tips from NPR science reporter Alix Spiegel. You'll want to take notes.
Jun 11, 2014•22 min
Look At Me, Did I Find True Love?
Transom Story Workshop student, Alex Kapelman, with the story of a drummer with a hook for a hand and a 50-year old rock and roll mystery.
May 28, 2014•20 min
Criminal
The new podcast "Criminal," is well worth a listen. Find out what it's all about from the program's host, Phoebe Judge.
May 14, 2014•15 min
Risky Reporting at Fukushima
NPR foreign correspondent Anthony Kuhn on the risks involved reporting at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Apr 24, 2014•11 min
Typewriters Are Unpleasant
Michael Raphael of Rabbit Ears Audio talks sound effects recording: winter scenes, rockets, cityscapes, and the soul destroying typewriter.
Apr 09, 2014•12 min
Getting Honest: The Editor, Producer Relationship
Producer Will Coley and editor Viki Merrick offer HowSound listeners a gift by talking about their editorial process, a working relationship that is usually not shared publicly.
Mar 26, 2014•22 min
Baking Tape
A painful reminiscence about preserving old reel-to-reel tapes by baking them. No, that's not a typo. Baking.
Mar 12, 2014•12 min
To Scene or Not To Scene
NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg finds on-scene narration canned and phoney and she says ambient sound often gets in the way of a story. Yet, her recent report on buffer zones around health clinics proves otherwise.
Feb 26, 2014•12 min
Dear Birth Mother
On this edition of HowSound, a 2005 Third Coast Festival award-winner from Long Haul Productions about a transracial adoption.
Feb 12, 2014•33 min
Recording Not By The Book
Tight budgets, technological advances, and the impulse to experiment are leading some producers to record "not by the book." Does it work?
Jan 29, 2014•17 min
The Hospital Always Wins
Laura Starecheski should win a radio endurance award. Laura tells the story of her decade -- ten years! -- of research and production on "The Hospital Always Wins."
Jan 16, 2014•21 min
Hark! The Acoustic World of Elizabethan England
Three radio greats -- Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall -- explore the sound of England 400 years ago along with our modern soundscape.
Jan 02, 2014•56 min
The Last of the Iron Lungs
Julia Scott says "participant observation" is a valuable reporting tool, even if it means climbing into an "iron lung" which looks like something only Dracula would lay in.
Dec 18, 2013•13 min
The New New Sheriff in Town
Headphones are mandatory for this episode of HowSound. Kathy Tu's second radio story ever will set your ears ablaze.
Dec 04, 2013•10 min
Just Plumb Gone
Mary Helen Miller encourages station-based producers to "Sneak out the back door with the tape recorder and make something good."
Nov 20, 2013•18 min
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
David Schulman usually produces non-narrated stories on music. Recently, he stepped out of his usual style to produce a narrated science story focused on the acoustics of reproducing the sound of a Stradivarius electronically.
Nov 06, 2013•17 min
This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
Yowei Shaw amassed 325 pages of transcripts for her This American Life story on Eritrean hostages and the reporter who uncovered the story. And that was just the beginning of Yowei's long, grueling production process assembling the story.
Oct 24, 2013•17 min
Hafid is Free
"Hafid is Free" is a solid example of what a story needs when it doesn't have a narrative hook.
Oct 09, 2013•9 min
Heyoon
A recent episode of "99% Invisible" employed a dramatic recreation to bring the past to life. Producers Alex Goldman and Sam Greenspan explain how they did it.
Sep 25, 2013•14 min
Nodding Syndrome
Producer Matt Kielty wonders about "objectification" and advancing a career reporting on the suffering of others.
Sep 11, 2013•16 min
Autism Grows Up
Capital Public Radio's Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross (no caps) are tasked with changing the sound of the station's documentary unit.
Aug 28, 2013•20 min
Stylus
New producers Conor Gillies and Zack Ezor get it right, right out of the gate with their documentary "Stylus" on music and sound.
Aug 14, 2013•17 min