November 14, 2004 (#14)

Big Stone Heads
Jack Chance – Independent Producer, Jack Chance Productions

Jack Chance visits Easter Island where he records local music and collects traditional stories about how the Island's famous stone heads, known as moai, were arranged around its perimeter many centuries ago. (NPR’s Day to Day)

Bonnie Jo Hunt
Gregg McVicar – Producer, Earthsongs

This portrait of internationally-acclaimed soprano Bonnie Jo Hunt, whose operatic work incorporates non-traditional sound elements, reflects her upbringing on a remote reservation in North Dakota. (NPR’s Day to Day)

Last Train to Braintree
Chelsea Merz - Independent Producer, transom.org

Matthew has been living on the streets of Boston for seven years. Every week, he has lunch with Chelsea Merz, who records their conversations about his life and some of the issues surrounding homelessness.(WCAI’s Arts and Ideas, from the series The Matthew Chronicles)

Interview with Chelsea Merz

Talking with Gwen Macsai, Merz reflects on her relationship with Matthew after a year of documenting his life.

Mars over Zagreb
Pavlica Bajsic - Independent Producer
Vedran Peternel – Producer, Radio France International

Follow Pavlica Bajsic through layers and layers of memory as she tours her Croatian hometown of Zagreb, reflecting on the political and social changes that have taken place over the past 20 years. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Listening Room, 2004)

Featured Music

Kid Spatula, Meast (Planet Mu, 2004)

November 7, 2004 (#13)

Living Flag
damali ayo – Performance Artist
Dmae Roberts – Independent Producer, MediaRites

In her performance piece, “living flag,” damali ayo sits on the street, panhandling to collect reparations for African American slavery. She's taken the piece to street corners all over the country, where she recorded the reactions from people who passed by. (PRI's Studio 360 from WNYC)

Interview with damali ayo

Gwen Macsai talks with ayo about blending the roles of performance artist and panhandler.

The Place You Cannot Imagine
Lea Redfern- Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Gyzele Osmani is an Albanian woman who fled East Kosovo in 1999 with her husband and five children. They found refuge in Australia, but when the Australian government decided that Kosovo was safe again, they refused to go back. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I Hear Music
Nick Purdon- Producer, CBC's Definitely Not The Opera

Why is it that certain songs lodge into your brain for hours on end? Nick Purdon sets out to answer this question using a number of methods, including one in which he revisits a near-death moment in his own life. (CBC’s Definitely Not the Opera)

Featured Music:

Lars Horntveth, Pooka (Smalltown Supersound, 2004)
Manitoba, Start Breaking My Heart (Leaf/Bubblecore, 2001)