Audio

Radio and Podcast

Music and Sound Design for Video

Ron Paul Makes Campaign Stop In Whimsical Jalopy

Ashton Moves On From Demi, Dating Evil Black Disc

‘Please Don’t Let Me Die In Here’ Begs Voter In Cutting Edge Debate Booth

Previous radio, podcast, and audio tour projects

Rights for each of these pieces belong to their respective publishers.  I worked on many of these pieces as a freelancer working through Curtis Fox Productions.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Podcast: The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Date: June 15, 2009
Description: Doug Eklund, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs, speaks with the artist Dan Graham about Jack Goldstein’s 1976 series called A Suite of Nine 7-Inch Records with Sound Effects. The records are on display in the exhibition “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” and visitors to the Museum can listen to them in the galleries.
Role: Recording and audio editing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Podcast: The New American Wing, American Art Pottery
Date: May 18, 2009
Description: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Metropolitan Museum’s Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, talks with Robert Ellison about his collection of American ceramics from 1876 to 1956, a promised gift to the Museum.
Role: Recording

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Podcast: Cast in Bronze, French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Date: March 30, 2009
Description: Curators Ian Wardropper and James David Draper describe The French Parnassus, an extraordinary bronze sculpture featured in the special exhibition “Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution.”
Role: Recording

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Podcast: Art of the Korean Renaissance
Date: March 16, 2009
Description: The dynamic works featured in the exhibition “Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400–1600” provide a glimpse into the extraordinary artistic and cultural renaissance that took place in Korea during the early Joseon dynasty. Soyoung Lee, the exhibition’s curator, narrates.
Role: Recording

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Podcast: The Essential Art of African Textiles, Design Without End
Date: October 14, 2008
Description: Curator Alisa LaGamma talks to artist Sokari Douglas Camp about her work, including the steel sculpture Nigerian Woman Shopping.
Role: Recording and audio editing

The New Yorker Out Loud: Escalation
Date: July 7, 2008
Description: Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administration’s secret campaign against Iran.
Role: Content and audio editing

American Civil Liberties Union Podcast, “Standard Operating Procedure”
Date: April 28, 2008
Description: Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project and co-author of Administration of Torture talks with filmmaker Errol Morris, about his new documentary Standard Operating Procedure.
Role: Audio engineering, content and audio editing

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: This Is It
Date: April 7, 2008
Description: Louise Erdrich reads Lorrie Moore’s short story “Dance in America,” and discusses Moore with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
Role: Production, content and audio editing, mixing

The New Yorker Campaign Trail, 3/21/08
Date: March 21, 2008
Description: Barack Obama’s speech on race and his strategy to attack McCain on Iraq and the economy. With George Packer and Dorothy Wickenden.
Role: Content and audio editing

The New Yorker Campaign Trail, 2/6/08
Date: February 6, 2008
Description: The Super Tuesday results, the end (or not) of the Republican primary, and the long Democratic contest ahead. With Dorothy Wickenden, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ryan Lizza.
Role: Content and audio editing

The New Yorker Campaign Trail, 12/20/07
Date: December 20, 2007
Description: The Bill Clinton question, the John Edwards surge, and the fight over how best to change America. With Dorothy Wickenden and Ryan Lizza.
Role: Content and audio editing, other production

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Talking Pictures
Date: September 17, 2007
Description: Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley’s short story “Somewhere Else” with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The podcast includes a reading of the story by Barbara Rosenblatt. “Somewhere Else” was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1978.
Role: Audio engineering, production, audio editing for the story section

WNYC and PRI’s Studio 360 – Lonelygirl15
Date: September 7, 2007
Description: In 2006, a teenager named “Lonelygirl15” began posting her video diary on YouTube. Her series of video blogs was the first huge breakout success on YouTube -– by her sixth video, she was getting upwards of 500,000 views. One year ago, Lonelygirl15 was outed as a phony. The big reveal made national headlines. But that wasn’t the end of Lonelygirl15.
Role: Job: All reporting, editing, and production
(Thanks to David Krasnow and Jenny Lawton for editorial help, and to the rest of the S360 staff for their encouragement.)

Parent’s Magazine Podcast, Episode 10: Toddler Discipline Do’s and Don’ts
Date: August 10, 2007
Description: Parent counselor and psychotherapist Yael Sank of Soho Parenting shares her tips on how to set limits with your toddler — and make those rules stick. Plus, Parents News Editor Kourtney Eidam shares her insider picks for the best new kids’ books. Finally, what do you do when your preschooler fibs about everything?
Role: Content and audio editing, mixing, other production

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: The Dating Game
Date: June 11, 2007
Description: Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz’s 1995 short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
Role: Production, content and audio editing, mixing

Composition

Hwy 6, IA – Composed from samples I taped along the highway.

Fakebook – Composed from various tape samples and an homage to one of my favorite groups, The Books.

Continuum – An electronic sound collage that won the 2005 Steiner Award for Creativity in Composition.

Falling and Building (Piano) – A piano sketch for the following piece, captured on a cheap voice recorder. Very lo-fi.

Falling and Building – For chamber orchestra. Not the greatest recording, but the players were sight-reading.

Untitled Improvisation – A live improvisation between cellist Dan Futura and me on guitar. Recorded sometime in early 2006?

Sweat the Small Stuff – For a small jazz ensemble.

Next to Me – An electronic indie-pop song I did in college. ‘Nuff said.

More examples to follow…