July 31 , 2005 (#20)
Originally broadcast April 24, 2005

Sweet Phil From Sugar Hill
Phyllis Fletcher- Producer/Reporter KUOW Seattle

A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves his kids no choice but to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote from prison.

Interview with Phyllis Fletcher

Re:sound host Gwen Macsai talks with Phyllis Fletcher about Sweet Phil and how her documentary brought the disparate parts of her family together.

Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
Davia Nelson—Independent Producer, Kitchen Sisters
Nikki Silva—Independent Producer, Kitchen Sisters

Tony Schwartz has not only recorded some of the most important social figures of his day,  but also some of the most mundane daily occurances: children playing jumprope, cabbies in New York. He single handedly changed the world of advertising with his creation of “the daisy ad.” He has created political campaigns, a radio show that ran for over 30 years, short films, books, lectures, and it all started in 1945 when he got his first wire recorder and he has been recording ever since. (NPR's All Things Considered, 1999)

Featured Music:

Casino Vs. Japan, “Koma Sign-Off,” Whole Numbers Play the Basics (Carpark, 2002)
Lullatone, “Leaves Falling,” Little Songs About Raindrops (Audio Dregs, 2004)
Rainstick Orchestra, “Powderly,” The Floating Glass Key in the Sky (Ninja Tune, 2004)
Casino Vs. Japan, “Trad Velecido,” Whole Numbers Play the Basics (Carpark, 2002)
The Books, “None But Shining Hours,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)

July 24 , 2005 (#29)

Apricot Wensleydale
Jill Dotty Summers—Independent Producer, Composer
David Whitcomb—Sound Engineer

On a brisk day in October, the busty Apricot Wensleydale hides from her three grown children, Olive Orange sneaks beef broth into her husband's vegan couscous, Jacob Witherby reads aloud to a family of lost ghosts, and two Argentinean ants fall in love. These are the radio-play inspired vignettes that make up the collection "Cohabitation.” This is the story of Apricot Wensleydale, just one of the inhabitants of Jill Summers’ fictional greystone in Chicago.

Here There Is No Moon
Susan Stone—Independent Producer

Since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 it has become the world’s leading suicide location. On average, every two weeks someone tries to end their life by jumping off the 20 story bridge over the San Francisco Bay. Nationally, in 2002 there were over 31,000 suicide deaths. There is no hard data for the number of suicide attempts, but the National Institute for Mental Health estimates that there are between 8 and 25 attempted suicides for every suicide death. In Here There Is No Moon, Bay Area producer Susan Stone tells the stories of those who’ve tried to commit suicide. Their voices speak of depression, illness, grief – and explores what they were thinking before, during and after their suicide attempt.

Interview with Susan Stone

Re:sound host Gwen Macsai talks with the producer of Here There Is No Moon about how an admission by a close relative led her to explore the stories of the survivors of suicide.

Featured Music:

Asao Kikuchi, “Kula Botanical Garden,” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005)
Dr. Rockit, “Lullabye for William,” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005)
Colleen, “Mining the Rain,” The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf, 2005)
Kazumasa Hashimoto, “Noaro,” Childish Music (Staubgold Germany, 2005)

July 17 , 2005 (#28) - The Remix Show
Producers and sound artists go to the audio playground and remix to their heart’s content.

Sopranos in the West Wing and Terminally Blonde
Jonathan Mitchell- Independent Producer

Producer Jonathan Mitchell edits together disparate TV shows (Sopranos and The West Wing) and movies (Terminator 2 and Legally Blonde) to create hilarious pop culture remixes. We play two of them and talk to Jonathan about his work.

The Neighborhood Freaks
Jay Allison- Independent Producer

A fictional narrative comprised of completely unrelated radio stories.  Veteran radio producer Jay Allison describes it this way: all these interview tapes were sitting side by side on the shelf and one day the people on the tapes just started talking to one another.

Nickelback
Sean Cole- Senior Reporter, WBUR

It's happened to all of us: you're in your car and song X comes on the radio. In a nanosecond, your brain digs through all your dusty memory files and sends out an alert: this sounds just like song Y! And you wonder, did someone steal song X from song Y? Maybe. You'll never know. But what if song x and song y were sung by the same band, can a band steal from itself... or are they just being…consistent? One music fan remixed two songs and put them to the ultimate test.

Mashups

DJ Paul V. (Host of The Smash Mix on Indie 103.1 in LA) gives a brief introduction to the Mash-up: Two songs digtally combined to form a new, seamless pop masterpiece.

Featured Mashes:
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)

Change in Farming
Adam Goddard- Composer
Steve Wadhams- Producer, CBC

Adam Goddard, a composer in Toronto, whose passion is music, interviews his 90 year-old grandfather whose passion is farming. Then, he combines his grandfather's words with his own music and the result is a little like.....rap.

The Books
Paul de Jong—Musician
Nick Zammuta—Musician
Julie Shapiro—Managing Director, Third Coast International Audio Festival

One of our favorite bands is The Books: Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto. On their first national tour, they stopped by our studio to talk to us about their music and how they put it all together. If you enjoy rich sound from a lot of different sources—thrift store records, found tape, TV shows—then this is the band for you.


Featured Music:

Caribou, “Drumheller,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Subtonik,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Lord Leopard,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)
Caribou, “Yeti,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005) 
Mark Vernon, “Splicing,” Derby Tape Club (found tape)
The Books, “If Not Now, Whenever,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
The Books, “Be Good to Them Always,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
RX, “Imagine,” The Party Party (2005) (George W. Bush/Lou Reed/John Lennon)

Extras:

The Books, "read, eat, sleep" (Thought for Food, 2002, 3:46)

The Books discuss their approach to songwriting and storytelling Behind The Scenes.

July 10 , 2005 (#27) - The Tour Show

High School
David Torgersen—Producer, Antenna Theater Productions

Produced in the form of a walking tour of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, this piece captures the inner experience of contemporary high school life through a collage of interviews, music, and sound design. Over the course of the tour, we pass through buildings, courtyards, the cafeteria, administrative offices, and bathrooms, gaining insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears felt by typical high schoolers on any given day.

Interview with David Torgersen

The producer of High School talks about making theatre for an audience of one, getting kids to open up, and serving as evidence that adults can occasionally be cool.

Fez, Morocco
Jim Metzner—Sound Recordist

Fez, Morocco, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Jim Metzner takes us on an aural tour of the city and back in time.

Featured Music:

Nick Butcher, “Minutes Overlap,” Complicated Bicycle (Placetapes, 2005)
Ratatat, “Lapland,” Ratatat (XI/Beggars Us Ada, 2004)
Caribou, “Pelican Narrows,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)

Extras:

Jim Metzner discusses his "live mixes" and the making of Fez Behind The Scenes.

July 3 , 2005 (#19)- The Woman Show
Originally broadcast April 17, 2005

The International Language of Women
Gwen Macsai- Independent Producer, Re:sound Host

The essay that explains, at long last, why women always go to the bathroom in twos. (NPR’s All Things Considered, 1991)

Dreaming of Fat Men
Lorelei Harris- Features, Arts & Drama Editor at RTE Radio 1

One evening in 1994, four women came together for a feast. They had never met one another before. As far as anybody knew, they only had one thing in common. They were all obese: not a little bit overweight or pleasantly plump or well rounded or anything like that. These were four very fat women. (RTE Radio 1, 1994)

The Walls
Laura Vitale- Independent Producer

Every semester the bathroom walls in Brown University's main library are painted fresh, and by the end of the semester they are full of contemplative scribbles in overwhelming quantities. The heartfelt, highly repetitive graffiti often creates something like poetry.

Featured Music:

The Cars are the Stars, “Helikopter,” Fragments (Chez Moi, 2004)
E*Vax, “The Process of Leaving,” Parking Lot Music (Audio Dregs Music, 2001)
E*Vax, “What We Mean,” Parking Lot Music (Audio Dregs Music, 2001)
Broken Social Scene, “Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl,” You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts, 2003)

Extras:

Lorelei Harris discusses the unusual production of Dreaming of Fat Men Behind the Scenes