Shortcuts
Series produced by Peter Bochan
Mixing music, dialogue from soundtracks, press conferences, sound effects and other sources, Shortcuts has presented a wide variety of themes over the past forty years, including programs on growing up, growing old, going crazy, being afraid, alone, in love; shows on music, space, race and politics from Watergate to Obama Care, plus retrospectives featuring the major events of each passing year. Recorded and mixed digitally, shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposition of the various elements.
Daily News: "a stunning stereo mix of music, news, movie dialogue, commercials and other sound sources...shortcuts is a theme-oriented program with no narration, a splice-of-life montage.... After the Three Mile Island catastrophe, Bochan produced "A Shortcut to Harrisburg" in which a Nuclear Regulatory Commission official repeatedly assured the public that "everything was under control" while Elvis Costello sang "Accidents Will happen" in the background." "The yearly Shortcuts series has become a genuine pubradio tradition-- something we radio folk look forward to, secure in knowledge our listeners are gonna love it. It's a musical voxpop & sound-bite tour of the past year, and a tour de force of sonic-editing sweat, song, speech, and segue. 2007's Shortcuts got it all: global... Show full description
64 Pieces
Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KGLT
- Added: Jan 23, 2009
- Length: 01:24:23
- Purchases: 4
Bought by Prairie Public, KVSC, KRZA, KVSC, KMXT and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 16
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMPG, KMXT and more
- Added: May 03, 2006
- Length: 28:25
- Purchases: 19
Bought by KUT, Remix Radio, and KGLT
- Added: Dec 30, 2009
- Length: 03:03:17
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jan 01, 2011
- Length: 59:36
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 59:12
- Purchases: 1
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 59:47
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 28:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 59:44
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:41
Bought by KCLU, KVMR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, North Country Public Radio, KSFR and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2012
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 29:26
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 59:31
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Radio New Zealand, and WXDU
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 3
Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, North Country Public Radio, KREV-LP and more
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 58:12
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHEN-LP, KZYX and more
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 57:52
- Purchases: 9
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Talking Information Center, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 59:39
- Purchases: 7