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damali ayo creates dialogue-driven
conceptual art that engages contemporary social issues through the media of
assemblage and installation. Her work has been shown at galleries all over the
country, and has been reviewed by publications such as The Village Voice,
Salon.com and The Washington Post. Most recently ayo created
a web-art-performance rent-a-negro.com , which explores the
commodification of individuals and the interactions between blacks and whites
in society. She currently resides in Portland, OR. (Megaphone)
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Ahri Birnbaum
is an independent producer living in Mill Valley, California. Most recently,
she served as co-executive producer of Shades of Gray, a one-hour
documentary about the many truths inside the abortion issue in America. She is
former senior producer of PRI's Beyond Computers , a weekly program
that intersected technology and culture. (Megaphone)
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The Books
(Nick Willscher Zammuto and Paul de Jong) make 'sample' music, with
source material consisting of vocal and instrumental fragments from anywhere
and everywhere, found sounds and field recordings mixed with their own
recordings of acoustic instruments (guitar and cello etc.). The Books are
attracted to sounds that are alive and candid, sounds that are rich and
versatile, and sounds that are odd but somehow familiar.
Nick Willscher Zammuto
grew up in the suburbs somewhere in western Massachusetts, USA. He studied
chemistry and the visual arts, and eventually moved into sound sculpture and
then music composition. After graduation he worked for a while as an art
conservator, then moved to New York City to pursue art, where he met Paul de
Jong in 2000. He has recently returned to Massachusetts, where he makes
sandwiches and teaches art classes.
Paul de Jong
grew up in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he started studying the cello at
age five. These days he tries to negotiate a workable situation between the
endless complications of sound and the direct simplicity of his own musical
intuition, through experimentation with a variety of musical and electronic
devices, including his cello, reel-to-reel recorders, commodore-64's and atari
computers, and more traditional equipment for sound recording and manipulation.
The Books performed during an evening of live audio performances at the Art
Institute of Chicago’s Fullerton Hall: The Third Coast Festival Audio
Cabaret.
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Chris Brookes
is a Canadian independent producer whose documentary features have been heard
on public radio in the U.S.A, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, England, and
Canada. His radio documentaries have won over 30 awards. He has also written
and directed for televison, is a published author and playwright, and has
taught documentary feature-making at radio festivals and workshops across North
America and Europe. He lives under a big rock in St. John's, Newfoundland
(that's in Canada). (Ways Of
Hearing)
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Susan Burton’s
radio documentaries and essays can be heard on This American Life, for which
she is a contributing editor and former producer. Her writing and interviews
have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, and she’s a
former editor of the “Readings” section of Harper’s Magazine. Burton
recently received a grant from the CPB to produce radio stories about
teenagers. Her documentary Tornado Prom won the Best New Artist award
at the 2001 Third Coast Festival. (Silver Award Winner)
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Cindy Carpien
started working for NPR's Morning Edition in Dec. 1979—less than two
months after it went on the air, when she was barely out of college. She was
the Director of Weekend Edition Saturday when the program debuted in
1985. In 1996, she moved to Arizona and worked part time as Producer in
Residence for KNAU in Flagstaff, helping local producers make stories for
national broadcast. Carpien is currently working for Morning Edition ,
and is based in Palo Alto, CA.. (Audio
Doctor)
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Sean Cole
is a field producer at WBUR Radio in Boston. He started there as an intern in
1997 and has been freelancing for various public radio shows since 1999,
including This American Life, All Things Considered, and The Next Big
Thing. Sean's work has also aired on the WZBC Boston College radio
program Your Radio Nightlight and the on-line public radio workshop Transom.org
. (Variations on a Thirst:
Introducing the Third Coast Festival Short Docs)
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Writer/producer
Katie Davis
has a 19-year background in public radio and more recently has been working
(since l994) as a community activist in Adam's Morgan, her inner city
neighborhood in Washington D.C. She recently received a grant from the CPB to
produce a series of radio pieces called Neighborhood Stories . (To
Err [On The Air] Is Human)
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Victoria Fenner
is a Canadian audio artist who has spent the past two decades exploring the
medium of sound. Her work and aesthetic is rooted in the familiar, recognizable
sounds of everyday experience. She is a founder of the Canadian Society for
Independent Radio Production, curates the nationally distributed Canadian audio
art radio series Radiant Dissonance, and most recently, worked as a
researcher and curator on a series about Quebec audio art for CBC Radio's
program Outfront . (Soundwalking)
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Joe Frank's
radio work spans more than 20 years. He began in 1977 at WBAI, Pacifica's New
York station, and later served as co-anchor of NPR's All Things Considered.
He produced and developed four radio program series for KCRW and NPR: Work in
Progress, In the Dark, Somewhere Out There, and The Other Side.
Frank has published two plays, and is also the author of The Queen of Puerto
Rico and Other Stories , based on his radio work. In 2003, he was the
recipient of the Third Coast Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Seeing
Sound, Lifetime Achievement Award)
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Paul Frey
is a product designer and artist living in San Francisco, CA. Frey has a degree
in Aerospace Engineering and a Master’s degree in Product Design, and in the
past ran his own design consultancy and lived in British Columbia designing
outdoor gear. His artistic interests typically focus on temporal sculpture and
photography. (2003 ShortDoc producer)
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Anna Friz
is a sound artist and curator; radio artist, broadcaster and pirate. She has
produced and curated original works for international, community and local
festivals, radio stations and other audio peformances. She is the founder of
the Thereminions Theremin Orchestra, and Central Dispatch improv groups, and
since moving to Montreal in 2000, she has been part of an arts collective that
makes work for CKUT FM. (The Third Coast Festival Audio Cabaret.)
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Ira Glass
started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's
Washington Headquarters. Over the course of the next 17 years, he worked on
nearly every NPR news show, and did nearly every production job they had,
including tape cutting, newscast writing, editing, producing, reporting and
substitute hosting. After moving to Chicago in 1989, he produced several
documentary series about public schools and about race relations for NPR. He
currently hosts and produces the Peabody Award-winning show This American Life.
Glass was named the 2001 "America's Best Radio Host" by Time magazine.
(Audio Doctor)
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Barrett Golding
has been an independent audio producer since 1983, and has made radio work for
NPR, PRI, BBC, and CBC, for shows such as All Things Considered, This American
Life, and Living on Earth. Golding has won numerous grants
from organizations such as the CPB and the NEA, and has been honored by awards
from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Montana
Broadcasters Association, among other media groups. He currently curates HearingVoices.com
, and when not pedaling his bicycle around the western United States, recording
as he goes, resides in Bozeman, Montana. (To
Err [On The Air] Is Human)
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Ann Heppermann
started her radio career in the summer of 2000, with an internship on Weekend
Edition Saturday. After that she returned to Flagstaff, AZ, where she hosts
Weekend Edition for KNAU Arizona Public Radio and makes radio for a number of
national and international outlets including: This American Life, Morning
Edition, the CBC's Outfront . She often collaborates with
producer Kara Oehler, and in addition to working together in radio, Kara and
Ann also play in two bands. They spend a lot of time together. Maybe too much
time. (Variations on a Thirst:
Introducing the Third Coast Festival Short Docs)
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Three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy award winner and Dateline NBC
correspondent
John Hockenberry
has been gaining broad experience as a journalist and commentator for more than
two decades. He has reported from all over the world on T.V and on the radio.
Hockenberry joined NBC in 1996 after a fifteen-year career at NPR and ABC News.
While working with NPR, he served as a general assignment reporter, Middle East
correspondent and host of several award-winning programs, including Heat
and more recently The DNA Files . (Variations
on a Thirst: Introducing the Third Coast Festival Short Docs; 2003
Third Coast Festival Broadcast Host)
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Michael Johnson
has produced music programs for more than 13 years on KALW and KPFA. He has
trained many producers and reporters in public radio in digital production
through his years at Western Public Radio, and served on assignment in Managua,
Nicaragua during the Contra/Sandinista Civil War. Johnson has also been a
freelance producer/reporter for the BBC, a training consultant for NPR, and
General Manager of KALW-FM, San Francisco. (To
Err [On The Air] Is Human/Sound
Seizing: Recording in the Real World)
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Natalie Kestecher
has made features for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the last
three years. Before finding radio, Natalie taught English to migrants in
Australia and Spaniards in Spain, edited a disability journal, and sold lots of
shoes. Kestecher’s work has earned numerous awards, including the Bronze Award
at the inaugural Third Coast International Audio Festival and an Australian
Human Rights award for a feature about Tourettes Syndrome. She's recently
completed a feature on the fear of being buried alive. (Loose
Tongues)
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The Kitchen Sisters
(Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) have been producing radio programs together
since 1979. They are the creators of the Peabody Award winning series, Lost
& Found Sound and the prize-winning Sonic Memorial Project.
The Kitchen Sisters’ work has been supported by numerous organizations
including the NEA, the CPB and the California Council for the Arts
Along with producing radio stories with Nikki Silva, Davia Nelson is also a
screenwriter, producer, and casting director. Over the past twenty years, Nikki
Silva has also worked as a History Curator at the Museum of Art and History in
Santa Cruz and as a freelance curator and exhibit consultant. (Seeing
Sound/Breaking the Mold:
Youth Producers Share their Work/Gold Award Winner)
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Gwen Macsai
is an award-winning writer and producer whose radio essays were heard on All
Things Considered and Weekend Edition Saturday throughout the
1990s. Macsai is also the creator of the television sitcom, What About Joan
and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person essays.
Macsai began her career at Chicago Public Radio in 1984 before moving to Radio
Smithsonian in 1987 and then to NPR in 1990. She is currently hosting Re:sound
, the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s weekly documentary program on
Chicago Public Radio. (To Err [On
The Air] Is Human)
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Jonathan Mitchell
is an award winning radio producer, composer, and sound designer. He began his
radio career as the creative director of PRI's Beyond Computers and is the
former senior producer of Loose Leaf Book Company. Mitchell’s radio and
composition work has been presented in venues around the world, including NPR's
Lost and Found Sound series, and the popular computer game The Sims. Currently,
he is a regular contributor to PRI's weekly art magazine Studio 360. (Megaphone)
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Walter Murch, a film editor and sound designer
since 1969, has been nominated eight times by the Academy of Motion Pictures.
He collaborated on the early films of Francis Coppola and George Lucas (THX-1138,The
Godfather parts I and II, The Conversation, American Graffiti, and Apocalypse
Now). In 1998 he re-edited and remixed Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil,
guided by a 58-page memo written by Welles after he had been fired from the
film. Murch is currently editing and mixing Minghella’s adaptation of Charles
Frazier’s Cold Mountain . (Seeing
Sound)
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Kara Oehler
produces and reports on stories about politics, rural health and arts and
culture for KNAU, Arizona Public Radio. Her work has been featured on NPR's
Morning Edition and newscasts, Voice of America, and National Native News. She
and collaborator Ann Heppermann play in two bands together and recently
produced a radio documentary for WBEZ's Speaking of Sex series called Out
of the Bedroom and Into the Chatroom: Sex and the Internet .
(Variations on a Thirst:
Introducing the Third Coast Festival Short Docs)
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Dean Olsher
considers himself lucky to have grown up during the last gasp of radio's golden
age on New York's airwaves. He began broadcasting at the age of 14, and passed
the test for his FCC license that year (and his driver's license test three
years later.) In 1987, Olsher began reporting on culture for NPR, defining his
beat broadly. He is currently the host/executive producer of WNYC's The Next
Big Thing , a show that exploits all the forms at which radio excels,
in an attempt to make sense of the world. (These
Are A Few of My Favorite Things)
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Dmae Roberts
has written and produced more than 300 features and documentaries for NPR and
PRI. In 1990 she received the prestigious George Foster Peabody award for Mei
Mei, A Daughter's Song , and has also received awards and grants from
organizations including the CPB and the NEA. Roberts is the executive producer
of 1stPerson.org, an online magazine published by MediaRites, a Portland-based
non-profit which she heads. (Megaphone)
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Ben Rubin
is a sound designer and multimedia artist. He teaches at the Yale Graduate
School of Design and at NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. Rubin has
been awarded numerous artistic residencies and has been nominated for several
national prizes. In 1993 Rubin founded EAR Studio which provides design,
consulting and production services to architects, museums, artists, producers
and performers. Rubin has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich and
Diller + Scofidio among other artists. (The
Music of Voices/Honorable Mention Award Winner)
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Ben Shapiro
has been producing radio for nearly 20 years and television for about a decade.
He’s worked at various stations, NPR, and as an award-winning independent
producer for several public radio programs. He's currently the editor of the
PRI/WNYC program The Next Big Thing and consulting editor of Joe
Richman's Radio Diaries. In 2002 he was co-producer of the Kitchen
Sister's Sonic Memorial Special . Shapiro teaches at the Columbia
Graduate School of Journalism. (Producer, Third Coast Festival Broadcast)
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Susan Stone
is a writer and producer of independent radio features and plays, and the
director of Pacifica Radio KPFA-FM's Drama and Literature Department in
Berkeley, California. Her work includes award-winning compositions and sound
installations for Le Centre de Creation International Nomade, Paris; and the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. A native North Carolinian, her work
takes inspiration from those small pockets of the South, and frequent roadside
attractions, where oddities and aberrations capture the curious. (Loose
Tongues)
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Taki Telonidis
has been producing public radio for 15 years, first with NPR in Washington DC,
and more recently with collaborator Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center.
Their work appears on NPR's Weekend Edition and PRI's Marketplace
and Savvy Traveler. From 1994 to 1998, Taki was Senior Producer of
NPR's Weekend All Things Considered . Telonidis has received the CPB
Gold and Silver Awards. (Audio
Doctor)
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Randy Thom
started his career in radio and music recording before making the transition to
film in 1975, when he was hired on Apocalypse Now (1979) as a sound effects
recordist. Since then, Thom has worked in a wide variety of creative capacities
in over thirty films, and is currently a sound designer and mixer at
Lucasfilm's Skywalker Sound facility. Thom received an Academy Award for sound
for The Right Stuff (1983), and is striving, along with a small group
of other sound designers, to developing motion picture sound into an art form.
(Seeing Sound)
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Sandy Tolan
has produced hundreds of documentaries and features for NPR, the CBC and other
radio networks, and has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines,
including The New York Times Magazine and The Nation . His
specialty is the intersection of global geopolitics, ethnic identity and social
tensions, especially in Latin America and the Middle East. His work has won
three Robert F. Kennedy awards. Tolan is currently working on The Lemon Tree, a
book stemming from a Fresh Air radio documentary of the same name. (Megaphone)
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Jay Allison
is a veteran independent broadcast journalist. His work airs on NPR's All
Things Considered, ABC News' Nightline and other national and
international programs. In 1996 he received the public radio industry's highest
honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award. Over the last 25 years, he has produced
hundreds of documentaries and features and has won virtually every major
broadcasting award, including five Peabodys.
Allison is Executive Director and founder of Atlantic Public Media (APM),
through which he created the public radio service for the Cape and Islands in
Massachusetts. APM also created Transom.org , a site devoted to
encouraging radio stories from people around the world. APM's latest project is
the Public Radio Exchange, a new Internet distribution system for public radio
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Sydney Lewis
is the author of three oral histories, and works closely with oral history
maestro Studs Terkel. She has edited award-winning radio essays for WBEZ radio
in Chicago, written for the Chicago Tribune Magazine, and is currently working
at Atlantic Public Media and is the editor of the Transom Review
at Transom.org .
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Viki Merrick
worked in Rome, Italy for ABC News as a production coordinator and radio
stringer, moving on to freelance as location/production manager for film
documentaries for North American venues After returning to the US, she became
an Editor for Transom.org and a producer at Atlantic Public Media
where she produces Arts and Ideas, a four-hour weekly show on WCAI/WNANiin Cape
Cod.
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Born in Kuala Lumpur,
Alex van Oss grew up in Europe,
Africa, and the South Pacific. He switched from microbiology to public radio in
1977, working as a producer, reporter, and editor at NPR (All Things
Considered, Performance Today ) and MonitoRadio. A resident of
Washington, D.C., Alex travels widely in Scandinavia and the former Soviet
Union. (Variations on a Thirst:
Introducing the Third Coast Festival Short Docs)
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Gregory Whitehead
is an internationally renowned playwright and performer in the Theater of the
Invisibles, and director ad absurdum for the immensely influential Laboratory
for Innovation and Acoustic Research (LIAR). Recent BBC broadcasts include American
Heavy, Resurrection Ranch and The Loneliest Road . He is a
member of an elite group of Americans who have won the coveted Prix Italia,
which he was relieved to discover is not an automobile racing event. (Audio
Cabaret) (The Third Coast Festival Audio Cabaret.)
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As editor in NPR's Arts Information Unit,
Loretta Williams
is part of team that produces stories for Morning Edition, All Things
Considered , and NPR's weekend news programs. Over her 19 year
affiliation with NPR, Williams has worked as a trainer, producer, reporter, and
director in NPR News. She has been involved with two Peabody Award-winning
productions, and has also been honored by many organizations including the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the Gabriel Award. (Audio
Doctor)
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