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The best sounds and stories from veteran producers straying off the beaten path and new producers coming into their own.
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Don't tell, but we decided to sneak a podcast out of the jar where
Jesse Dukes has been keeping us neatly tucked away. Thanks to some
help from a veteran Big Shed producer, Emma Rayes,...
(Producer: Rachel Quimby) Nobody really knows why Rockland, Maine
has a rather large population of Jews--legend says a ship was turned
aside at Ellis Island and sent up the coast to...
(Produced by Amy O'Leary) In the 1980's, Danny Felsenfeld was
a nerdy, Jewish kid--crazy about Richard Wagner--who naively showed up
at a meeting of the Wagner Appreciation Society
(Produced by Jesse Dukes) Last summer, Philadelphia rock band The Extraordinaires
tried their hands at musical theater. Producing a musical might be the
last thing you'd expect from...
(Produced by Tim Telkamp) Come along for a ride on the rails with this audio postcard from the
New Hope Valley Railway. This postcard is a companion piece to Tim
Telkamp's photo-essay...
(Produced by Love Radio) We'll it's time for our annual pilgrimage to chi-town to the beloved Third Coast International Audio Festival. So we thought it would be appropriate to bring...
(Produced by David Goren) We've got a big new idea at Big Shed ... returning series!!! In the coming year, we're
going to offer a few returning series from amazing and
innovative audio...
(Produced by Rebecca Sheir) David Traver, Alaska's reigning Mr. Fur
Face, is the president of the Southcentral Alaska Beard Mustache
Club, and his belly-length whiskers won him a...
(Produced by Amara Hark-Weber) We're back! And this week, we're listening to three short pieces
from Ghana--Storytime, Sweeping with Simone and Daniel in the
Market--sent to us by our...
(Produced by Jennifer Deer) Like a traveling medicine man peddling a homeopathic remedy for the
mass media slogans of the day, the Mantra Trailer focuses attention on
the personal and...
(Produced by Jesse Dukes) Drive west from Portland, Maine on US 302 and
youâll pass a giant mechanical television repairman on the left. The
repairman was built by Al Hawkes years ago...
(Produced by Katie Mingle) Looking to get more experience with the dead and
ghosts, producer Katie Mingle spent some time in a pauper's
graveyard. She narrates her experiences there....
(Produced by Emma Raynes) Meet Ruana, the world's cutest 6-year-old
Portugese teacher. This languange lesson comes to us from our friend
and Producer Emma Raynes. Emma recently ran
(Produced by Jill Summers and David Whitcomb ... aka Stray Dog Recording Company)
A tragic turn of events at the worldâs smallest circus. Les Petits Tristes is an excerpt from Transfixed:...
(Produced by John Biewen + Jennifer Deer) Merry Christmas from Big Shed!! Producer John Biewen (seen here in his own japanese manga)
dropped by with some great recordings of bedtime...
(Produced by Owen Agnew) (Photo: Allison Lucas) Happy Thanksgiving at Big Shed!! This holiday we're thankful for everyone who's been
so supportive of Big Shed. We're feeling the love....
(Produced by Zak Rosen) Here's the next episode in our series live from the Third Coast International Audio Festival,
where we're bringing you a little good, clean audio fun with Zak
Rosen....
(Photo by John Barth of PRX ... thanks for being a shutterbug) (Produced by Jennifer Deer) Last week, Jennifer and I joined 350-ish other audiophiles in Chicago (well, Evanston, IL)...
(Produced by David Sommerstein) A few weeks ago, Shea was visiting beautiful SUNY Potsdam in upstate
NY to make a presentation about audio documentaries to students at the
school, an...
(Produced by Layne Garrett) About
this week's piece, Layne says: this piece is made entirely of
samples from a winter camping trip in Feb.06 to Smarts Mountain in New
Hampshire, plus...
(Produced by Shea Shackelford)
There's nothing I can say to you that will prepare you for this. - Matt Largey
Thanks to Matt and TK for dropping by the Big Shed. Hope the stars at...
(Produced by David Engen) Get your dancin' shoes on. This piece from Minnesota producer Dave
Engen is a treat for your audio feet. We first met Dave a year ago at
a Duke Center for
(Produced by Nic Beery)
L o o k d e e p l y I n t o o u r e a r s . . . (it's okay, we used q-tips)Oddly,
this turned out to be a nice follow-up to our last podcast, Hello.
Nic
(Produced by Jennifer Deer) We're taking our own medicine this week, and damn it tastes good. For
your listening pleasure, Jen re-cut this piece, which she originally
produced a few...
(Produced by Jennifer Deer) You've waited for it, and here it is ... another Budget Buddies!!!
Don't worry, we didn't sort out all of our financial or personal issues
since the last...
(Produced by Nikki Brown and Kavanah Ramsier) Can a cup of tea a day keep the doctor away? North Carolina native
Annie Melvin continues the tradition of keeping her medicine chest in
the...
(Produced by Todd Tinkham) When a severe thunderstorm chases two independent filmmakers off of
a North Carolina beach, the director decides to interview the
cinematographer while waiting...
(Producer Laura Kwerel) Less a band than an experiment in sound, The Books, create an emotional collage of music, found sound, and documentary.
Much of their work is stitched together...
(Producer: Jennifer Deer) That's right, it's round four of Big Shed's financial soap opera. In this exciting edition, Shea gets a bait and switch on his capers and
pasta, and Jenn adds...
(Produced by Amara Hark-Weber) Playing for X is the story about an unexpected birthday gift from an old friend. It tells how the friendship has changed over time, and why this specific...
(Producers: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) Here's round two in our personal documentary soap opera. What bills to pay ... what foods to eat (or not eat) when shopping on a budget...
(Producers: Vige Millington + Andrew Starner) One afternoon, we talked about Skyâs experiences growing up as a child in Istanbul, Turkey, a landscape that exists now only in his memories....
(Producer: Jennifer Deer) Here's a new idea in our efforts to keep you knee deep in fresh content ... and echoing Jen's closing words in this piece, for god's sake please send us more...
(Producer: Shea Shackelford) Happy 2006! Thanks for subscribing. We're looking forward to a year full of great sound + stories for you.
One of our New Years resolutions here at Big...
(Producer: Julia Cooksey) Fork is a superfun vox pop piece from producer Julia Cooksey, exploring important questions of cutlery. If you're spending the holidays with family or friends,...
It's a video ... enjoy!
(Producer: Emma Raynes)
Roller derby was a popular sport in the 1960's, airing on T.V. and drawing crowds to see teams like the Bay City Bombers. The sport lost steam in the 70's,...
(Producer: David Schulman) Every March, close to 500,000 Sandhill Cranes break their long migration with a stop along the Platte River in central Nebraska. For two or three weeks, they...
(Producers: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) This is our first attempt at a remote report. So ... consider it a learning experience. Shea headed to Chicago for the always amazing...
(Producer: Eve Abrams) Eve interviewed kids entering junior high school about their excitement and anxiety. I can't get over how serious they are. I love the kid who reflects how...
(Producer: Liz Lindsey) For me this story began with a phone call from a stranger. I was at work readying a photographic exhibit to travel to the mountains of Lenoir, North Carolina....
(Producer: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) Joe Thompson, an 86-year-old native of Mebane, NC, is perhaps the last African-American fiddler playing square dance music who actually
(Producer: Allyn Meredith) I interviewed Sherri Wood for my thesis project about the creative re-use of items that would otherwise be trashed, such as the material that Sherri works...
(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...
(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
(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...
(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
(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...
(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...
(Producer: Thomas Hausen) A soundscape made entirely from tweeked sounds made by a clothes washing machine.
(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.
(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...
(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...
(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....
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Shea Shackelford) What's not to love about subway sounds? How shy do I sound, recording on that platform?
(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...
