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Book Odds REMIX: a preview

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 | cool, sound, stories | No Comments

This past weekend, REMIX Radio from PRX and the Third Coast International Audio Festival presented a REMIX/ShortDoc extreme challenge. For this year’s ShortDoc, the band The Books have selected eight sample sounds from their library of musical bits for anyone and everyone to use in their own radio story. That contest is going on right now and the winner will present their ShortDoc at the opening session of the Third Coast Conference in October. Check here for full details. You should definitely check it out, create a story and enter. But at Megapolis this past weekend, we wanted to try something a little more extreme. Unlike the general Third Coast challenge (in which producers are required to select only two sounds to work with) the Megapolis Book Odds REMIXers used ALL EIGHT sounds, plus the patented “PRX chime” (and any other sound they wish) and pulled it all together into a one-minute composition in 30 minutes! Cool sounds + super talented audio artists + 30 minutes + flop sweat = awesome. I’m posting them all this week (both here and on the satellite), but here’s a preview of one of the entries by Kara Oehler and Benjamen Walker:

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I’m about to get a lot fewer emails

Thursday, May 13th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Yesterday was a big day in REMIXland. If you go to your XM radio and turn it to 136, you can actually read the title and artist of the piece that’s playing! Right there! Alpha-numerics that convey information! Hurray! I listened/tested it all night last night, and sure enough, it’s working like a charm. Thanks to the PRX/Backbone/XM team that got it all worked out. This is just the beginning for REMIX. There’s lots more on the horizon. Stay tuned.

Most of the emails we receive are people asking what played when, and now that you have some of that info in front of you, I do hope you’ll still stay in touch. We love emails!

I scream for MEGAPOLIS

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | cool, sound | No Comments

I couldn’t be more excited. Megapolis is coming! Read all about it!

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Snap Judgment Vid

Friday, May 7th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

One of the cool, young production crewmembers at Snap Judgment (a new storytelling program from NPR and PRX) made this vid from an outtake of a story on a future episode of Snap Judgment. It cracks me up every time I see it. He also makes badass videos where he completely tricks out computers.

Megapolis! Audio Art! Hurray!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 | cool, sound | No Comments

The Megapolis Festival is an annual, weekend-long celebration of the craft of DIY audio creation. Artists, documentarians, musicians, and fans come together to share secrets on producing and presenting cool and challenging audio works online, on-air, and on the stage. This year, the fun will take place May 14-16 in Baltimore, MD. Oh, I’m excited. Your’s truly is leading a REMIX workshop, plus TMI’s Benjamen Walker is going to be there, and a panoply of truly intimidating audio artists and storytellers. Well, their work is intimidating, they are quite nice and physically they tend to be weak in the upper body.