HowSound
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- https://transom.org/topics/howsound/
HowSound is a bi-weekly podcast pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio production.
Each episode highlights the work of independent producers such as Dave Isay, Joe Richman, Hillary Frank, and Dmae Roberts.
HowSound is produced by Rob Rosenthal for PRX and Transom.
The podcasts are available as free MP3 streams and downloads on iTunes, other podcast directories, and here at PRX.
Series
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Planet Money's Noel King says the best way to write for radio is to not write. Instead? Tell.
- Added: Jan 10, 2018
- Length: 12:01
- Purchases: 3
Two solidly produced, fun stories from students at the Transom Traveling Workshop in Marfa, Texas featuring.... well, the title gives it away. Both...
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
"Radio is the most visual medium." Aviva DeKornfeld's story "After the Storm" is proof. So much so, it's just as much a photo essay as it is a radi...
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 14:16
- Purchases: 2
Jad Abumrad of Radiolab delivers the goods on sound design in radio stories. A must listen if you're thinking of sound designing your next radio st...
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 21:51
A recent story on NPR about the Confederate flag got me wondering about the practice of correcting interviewees in narration. North Country Public ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 18:04
- Purchases: 2
Greg Warner is one of my fav radio writers. He deftly put the "broken narrative" to good use in an episode of his NPR podcast "Rough Translation." ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 20:42
Why the devil is it so hard to sound like yourself when reading narration? Transom's Viki Merrick offers some voicing coaching gold. You'll wanna t...
- Added: Oct 08, 2017
- Length: 15:12
- Purchases: 2
How do you craft sound design that doesn't sound cheesy? Rob has no idea. To start figuring it out, he talked with Matt Boll who worked on the soun...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 15:44
With the glut of first-person stories these days, how do you make yours stand out? Neil Sandell has some ideas.
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 27:25
Sam Broun's stomach ached every time she returned to the boxes in her cellar, boxes that contained all the information she collected for her docume...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 4
People who work with HowSound
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Kerri Hoffman
CEO |
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Rob Rosenthal (Admin)
Owner, Shunpike Media |
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Robert DeBenedictis
Information Technology |
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Genevieve Sponsler
Sr Managing Producer |
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Jennifer Jerrett
Interim Managing Editor, Transom |
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Distro Dovetail Admin
PRX Publish/Metrics admin |
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