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 KUT, Remix Radio, and KGLT
- Added: Dec 30, 2009
- Length: 03:03:17
- Purchases: 3
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 Prairie Public, KVSC, KRZA, KVSC, KMXT and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 16
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 KUT-HD, Marfa Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWIT, KUOW and more
- Added: Jan 01, 2009
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 10
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUER, KUCB, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WMNF and more
- Added: Dec 02, 2008
- Length: 54:17
- Purchases: 25
Bought by XRAY.fm, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KGLT, Marfa Public Radio, and KVMR
- Added: Jun 23, 2008
- Length: 21:02
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 10
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMUN, KMXT, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more
- Added: May 17, 2007
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 10
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 11
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT and more
- Added: Sep 27, 2006
- Length: 54:37
- Purchases: 16
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Radio Catskill, WYSO, KFAI Minneapolis, KGLT and more
- Added: Dec 27, 2006
- Length: 25:25
- Purchases: 6
Bought by WAMU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2009
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KGLT, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 37:32
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Aug 05, 2009
- Length: 55:31
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 27:36
- Purchases: 2
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Spokane Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 32
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVMR, and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2008
- Length: 29:14
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 28:23
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KALW, KQAL, RadioStPete Florida, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2006
- Length: 29:27
- Purchases: 58
