A cool piece about a love that just won't work. I empathized and I think most people would find some morsel of truth in this piece. I really appreciate the speaker's distance and perspective from the certainly painful subject matter. The feeling of resolution makes this piece enjoyable to listen to rather than nerve-racking and painful, as it must have been to experience. The resulting radio piece is clear and concise description of only the important details, well-narrated by Michael Nutt. The soundtrack gave the piece a lightness that helped move the piece along, not lingering on any one memory of fouled love, but jumping along to the next one as quickly and nimbly as one advances a CD. Do not be put off by the length of this piece. It's about 5:25, with a well-suited extro of Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This." This would work well as an insert on ME or ATC, but I believe it would be best suited for a Valentine's Day themed program about love and its incarnations. Unlike the previous reviewer of this piece, I did not miss the absence of all the gory details. I rather enjoyed the sparsity of detail, which allowed for the listener with similar experiences to actively connect to the story rather than be a passive listener with experiences made dissimilar to those recounted in the piece because of incongruities in exact details.
This piece left me hanging a little bit. It wanted to be a personal look into a relationship and why it didn't work, but it was mostly an abstract of the relationship. It was working. Then it didn't. On again. Off. But never why or what happened. I don't need to peek into lives, but if you are going to put it on exhibition, that's information the listener wants. I like the central idea and the production method, that each is the one that got away to the other and by listening to the equivalent of found audio. But I felt like it was more a story pitch than it was a follow-through story.
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Will Cervarich
Posted on February 06, 2005 at 10:09 AM | Permalink
Review of The Ones That Got Away
A cool piece about a love that just won't work. I empathized and I think most people would find some morsel of truth in this piece. I really appreciate the speaker's distance and perspective from the certainly painful subject matter. The feeling of resolution makes this piece enjoyable to listen to rather than nerve-racking and painful, as it must have been to experience. The resulting radio piece is clear and concise description of only the important details, well-narrated by Michael Nutt. The soundtrack gave the piece a lightness that helped move the piece along, not lingering on any one memory of fouled love, but jumping along to the next one as quickly and nimbly as one advances a CD. Do not be put off by the length of this piece. It's about 5:25, with a well-suited extro of Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This." This would work well as an insert on ME or ATC, but I believe it would be best suited for a Valentine's Day themed program about love and its incarnations. Unlike the previous reviewer of this piece, I did not miss the absence of all the gory details. I rather enjoyed the sparsity of detail, which allowed for the listener with similar experiences to actively connect to the story rather than be a passive listener with experiences made dissimilar to those recounted in the piece because of incongruities in exact details.
Hans Anderson
Posted on February 04, 2005 at 07:33 PM | Permalink
Review of The Ones That Got Away
This piece left me hanging a little bit. It wanted to be a personal look into a relationship and why it didn't work, but it was mostly an abstract of the relationship. It was working. Then it didn't. On again. Off. But never why or what happened. I don't need to peek into lives, but if you are going to put it on exhibition, that's information the listener wants. I like the central idea and the production method, that each is the one that got away to the other and by listening to the equivalent of found audio. But I felt like it was more a story pitch than it was a follow-through story.