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
66 Pieces
- 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
Bought by Remix Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Radio Catskill, Marfa Public Radio, KWIT and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2007
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 11
Bought by KGLT, KUT, KVMR, North Country Public Radio, and WNED Buffalo
- Added: Dec 22, 2006
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Jan 06, 2006
- Length: 59:36
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 02, 2007
- Length: 59:44
