(Producer: Shea Shackelford + Jennifer Deer) We hope you enjoy our second piece from the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, West Virginia. This piece was a fun experiment for Jennifer and me. We basically wanted to take you on a walk through the campground, because it's a trip (like "that's trippy, man"). One of the amazing things about Clifftop is that once the music starts, it keeps going 24-7. And it's not just one or two bands, it's 5, 10, ... 30 small jams playing all over the pl...
Aug 17, 2005•21 min
(Producer: Paul Overton) Producer Paul Overton sent us this inspired audio shout out. We loved it and had to share it with you. Keep on rockin', Paul. We're giving you the devil horns right back, man. Paul also produced Subway Symphony, one of the first pieces aired on Big Shed. ["Pole" painting by Paul Overton]
Aug 15, 2005•3 min
(Producer: Laura Kwerel) When I heard that Steve, one of my supervisors at the coffee shop I work at, was leaving, I knew I had to do something. So I went around recording everyone I could find to talk about himâemployees, customers, friendsârandom people sitting outside on the porch. This is what I came up with. See ya, Steve.
Aug 10, 2005•6 min
(Producer: Jennifer Deer) HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAPNICK!!! This piece is a birthday shout out to my brother ... here's a musical snapshot from Clifftop, home of this year's Appalachian String Band Festival. More music from Clifftop on Big Shed in the next few weeks ...
Aug 09, 2005•12 min
(Producer: Jennifer Deer*) *This original tape came to us from Melanie Hammet. It was recorded by her sister Marcy. âFound Tape.â A family recording: Marcy valiantly attempts to record her parents Joan and Martin singing hymns. She sends a CD to her sister, musician and songwriter Melanie Hammet. Melanie shares the love â and the hilarity - with Big Shed! ["shed sketch" by Sampson]
Jul 29, 2005•8 min
(Producer: Sarah Elzas) Cathy is 16. She loves listening to Outkast. She thinks she wants to be an accountant. Cathy is also still a freshman in high school because she is the mother of two little boys, the oldest, James, is two years old. She attends a high school for teen moms, which is where she gets the most support from anyone all day. This is a non-narrated, first-person glimpse into the chaotic life of a very young mother. Cathy reflects on her need to be grown-up, as a mother to her two ...
Jul 22, 2005•8 min
(Producer: Thomas Hausen) A soundscape made entirely from tweeked sounds made by a clothes washing machine.
Jul 14, 2005•6 min
(Producer: Jennifer Deer) Experimental Personal Narrative. Special thanks to Jim Lee. This piece was produced as a final project for his class at Duke in 2003.
Jul 07, 2005•16 min
(Producer: Scott Gurian) This piece is a montage of participants--including my father--at karaoke night at Nicola's Italian Restaurant in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After a version of this aired on NPR, my father started getting calls and visits from random friends and neighbors saying they heard him on the radio and congratulating him on his singing ability. This all caught him completely off-guard, since he didn't think anyone was actually listening. He also got a call from a woman who looked him ...
Jul 06, 2005•6 min
(Producer: Emma Raynes) Artist Notes: While I was doing research in Gurung villages, I had go back and forth between Pokhara (a hill town) and Kathmandu (the capital of Nepal). The seven hour bus route began in the bustling city, dodging and swerving around other cars and bullock carts. Eventually the route took the wide bus along a narrow, precarious dirt road that snaked through the mountains. I often took photographs or recorded sound to distract myself from my fear of getting in an accident ...
Jun 30, 2005•5 min
(Producer: Shea Shackelford) This interview happened while I was interviewing Susan and Eric about trips with their families for a game of audio tag we were playing at radiopie.org. They were having trouble remembering stories when we realized they'd had a pretty interesting first family trip as a new family -- travelling to Korea to adopt their son, Isaac. It's a simple story, told by good folks, and it makes me glad I own a microphone.
Jun 23, 2005•7 min
(Producer: Julie Shapiro) Here's an homage in sound to Chicago's 524 (last count) public parks, and the ubiquity of the ice cream truck within them. All sound was gathered in twelve parks all over the city, over the course of June - August, 2004. This piece was originally commissioned for the 2004 Outer Ear Festival of Sound and aired on WLUW, WNUR and WZRD in Chicago. Julie Shapiro lives in Chicago where she is inextricably involved with all sorts of audio projects, including the Third Coast In...
Jun 23, 2005•19 min
(Producer: Paul Overton) Trains are, by nature, rythmic. None more so than the trains of the New York City Subway system. Over the course of three days, I set out to capture the sonic spirit of the subway and turn it into audio stew.
Jun 16, 2005•3 min
(Producer: TK McGuirt) "My garb, so to speak, is a t-shirt and velvet pant, some people object to that but I like to be comfortable when I play." That is Yvonne Adams, she has been playing the violin for 70 years. Yvonne used to play in symphony halls. Now she walks the halls of Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine playing the violin for patients. Courtesy the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Jun 16, 2005•8 min
(Shea Shackelford) What's not to love about subway sounds? How shy do I sound, recording on that platform?
Jun 12, 2005•2 min
(Jennifer Deer) We both seem to have chosen transportation themes for our promos. Though this one has the distinction of being both our first podcast in a moving vehicle and the first one to take advantage of the lack of FCC regulation on the profanity front.
Jun 01, 2005•34 sec
