Frankie
I never imagined what I was getting myself into when I met this little dog.
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Produced for the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s weekly show Re:Sound
*note: Franky retired with my parents in Colorado where he enjoyed wall to wall carpeting and endless love from my mother. he died in 2008.
The Dead Can’t do You Nothin’
A quest for ghosts in a New Orleans pauper’s graveyard.
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Produced at the Center for Documentary Studies, in Durham, NC. This piece won me the award of Best New Artist in 2007 from the Third Coast International Audio Festival. A shorter version aired on NPR.
Not A New Wave Band From Jersey
Some people use the term “outsider music” for music that seems to come from a certain place of innocence. Music that isn’t trying to get at anything and yet somehow gets at everything.
In Canada in the 1970s, music teacher Hans Fenger recorded 60 of his students singing in a gymnasium and pressed a few records to hand out to parents. The recording, which was done in a single take, eventually found itself gathering dust in a Canadian thrift store. But in 2000, a collector of outsider music came across the recordings and decided they had to be re-released. The resulting album, called Innocence and Despair, really spoke to people. It turned out to be an unexpected hit, climbing to the top of the billboard charts and spawning a VH1 documentary. Not bad for an amateur kid’s choir.
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Produced for Re:Sound, this piece was also a selection for the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s 2009 Filmless Festival.
Riding Through Summer, Pilsen, Chicago, 2009
A snapshot of Chicago summer as heard from a bike.
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To celebrate the launch of their new website, the the Third Coast International Audio Festival asked a handful of producers to take part in producing “Sound-drops” – short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. Riding Through Summer was my contribution.
Cynthia
A story of love unrequited.
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Originally written for my zine, You Don’t Say, the audio version aired on Chicago Public Radio’s Re:Sound.
The Music of Bicycles
Sound Artists/musicians Russell Weiss and Charlie Malave make music entirely out of the sounds a bicycle can make.
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Produced for Re:Sound
Portrait of a Psychic as a Young Man
Nathan Dyer is just like any other teenage kid, except, for a fee, he’ll tell you what your future holds.
Photo by Morrigan McCarthy and taken from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Archives
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Produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, this piece aired on Chicago Public Radio’s Re:Sound
Picking up the Pieces
In the summer of 2006, Linda Boutaugh and Keri Fuchs were victims of a violent hate crime. Their home was destroyed, but their relationship survived.
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