You've taken a topic, of which contents and examples of stress behaviors, surprized me. Since I am also an R.N., the topic of stress, as a continuing education, is familiar to me. But you've managed to choose fabulous researchers to take the topic into the realm of fascinating.
Superb use of music beds, great use of this for punches...
I loved the extrapolation of the Stanford rat experiments, and baboon social safety net.
I was, however, at times confused about who was talking. The hosts voice and the other individuals sounded so similar (the males, toward the latter part of the show) that I couldn't follow (more the exception than the rule).
Making sense of the Lockerbie airline disaster in a way that pulls sense out of confusion, much like the way the varied pieces of a quilt make a blanket, is how I would attempt defining the "whole" effect of the stories told, in this remarkable piece: "Yesterday and Forever".
The auditory experience, included a harp music bed for a dream-like-sense, under the grieving stories told by the families, and a list of those who fell out of the sky, interspersed, at varied times, over-lapping stories-- effectively conveyed the depth of the people this tragedy touched. Especially intriguing was a story told by a mother, who's daughter awoke from a "nightmare" of her father falling from the sky. She didn't really wake up at all, but foretold of events soon to follow.
The frustration and responsibility embraced by the families who, consequently organized airport security to "assure that this could never happen again", was a huge undertaking.
Indeed, their world, and ours will never be the same. And this piece took a day for me to try to put into words, the effect it had on it's hearing.
As the "Thin Red Line", by Terrence Malik evokes in film, a deep reflection about life, death and war, so does "Unquiet Graves", offer a high quality radio reflection of the same caliber. Helen and Marjorie hit a little felt nerve by our citizens at home in the U.S, when exploring what wars do to a people, on home turf. No one can escape the effects of war today. A sobering thought.
In an intimately gentle voice, the listener, is directed to join a tour with an Englishman, who relives the horror of gas clouds in WW I, learn of survival techniques (such as how to use your bodily functions in a specific formulation), and how the Northern Europeans honor one another in memorials.
Honoring the dead, and clutching to the neighbor; these people were kin, now. They all lived to tell the tale. There is a depth here. You're kin to Terence Malik, I think. Great story. Very evocative.
I thoroughly enjoyed the production value: writing into tape, use of an English tour guide, the sounds of a radio broadcast, woven into the tape, with various interviews with the local peoples in Flanders. Nice use of echos for past recall.
And a fitting visual, the use of the poppy flower, to open and close the piece.
Comment for
"COMEDY-O-RAMA--DAWS BUTLER WORKSHOP: "Forget Metaphor! Whatta You Mean?" with Nancy Cartwright" (deleted)
Review of COMEDY-O-RAMA: Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop (deleted)
Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop, is a voice actors delight.
Perhaps because much of the cartoon characters in episodes 13 and 14 are closer to my contemporary experience, I found this radio-documentary both educational, delightful and thoroughly engaging. June Foray, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler re-living the fun, playful moments which created cartoon classics, as well as opening the experience for the listener to discover how these character voices were created. Inversely, I found the acting from the earlier episodes (circa 1940's) slightly less compelling: partially due to the flat female voice actors abilities.
This may be contributed to the era's styling, or to the lack of direction given the female voice actor. Regardless, Joe transports us into the "secret" world of the voice-over genre.
Comment for
"Vinyl Cafe-April 23 2006-"The Science Experiment"" (deleted)
Review of Vinyl Cafe-April 23 2006-"The Science Experiment" (deleted)
Opening this piece is some little known history of the Finnish people, and their competitive, albeit, quirky sense of humor (St. Eru ?). Since I am first generation Finnish, I was pleased to hear it.
I like the host's Canadian voice, the references to Canada, the music groups he featured, and the story to finish (no pun intended). Nice pacing, good auditory visuals with the story: I felt like I was a part of the live audience.
The observation that 2 people could be, by chance, moving in the same direction, as to give one the sense of being followed and the other the uncomfortable awareness that they aren't following them, but are moving in the same direction, and to give it enough merit to record it as a phenomena, is a great idea.
A nice drop in for a safety topic on air.
I don't know whether I've accurately chosen tones descriptive of this piece. However, truthful, or observant are some of the other tones I'd have chosen, if available.
I love the choice of music beds. Initially, I was confused by the voices (were they people talking to each other, folks standing next to each other ? for example), it took a moment to finally hear that these were people in self talk mode.
Comments by Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Comment for "Alternate Living Styles" (deleted)
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on December 03, 2008 at 07:16 PM
This segment is 16:44, not the 33 minutes (deleted)
I couldn't re-edit the timing, to delete the extra piece (double loaded).
Comment for "Radiolab, Show 102: Stress"
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on May 04, 2007 at 05:02 PM | Permalink
Review of Radio Lab, Show 102: Stress
Fantastic work !
You've taken a topic, of which contents and examples of stress behaviors, surprized me. Since I am also an R.N., the topic of stress, as a continuing education, is familiar to me. But you've managed to choose fabulous researchers to take the topic into the realm of fascinating.
Superb use of music beds, great use of this for punches...
I loved the extrapolation of the Stanford rat experiments, and baboon social safety net.
I was, however, at times confused about who was talking. The hosts voice and the other individuals sounded so similar (the males, toward the latter part of the show) that I couldn't follow (more the exception than the rule).
Comment for "Yesterday and Forever December Special"
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on August 11, 2006 at 05:35 PM | Permalink
Review of Yesterday and Forever December Special
Making sense of the Lockerbie airline disaster in a way that pulls sense out of confusion, much like the way the varied pieces of a quilt make a blanket, is how I would attempt defining the "whole" effect of the stories told, in this remarkable piece: "Yesterday and Forever".
The auditory experience, included a harp music bed for a dream-like-sense, under the grieving stories told by the families, and a list of those who fell out of the sky, interspersed, at varied times, over-lapping stories-- effectively conveyed the depth of the people this tragedy touched. Especially intriguing was a story told by a mother, who's daughter awoke from a "nightmare" of her father falling from the sky. She didn't really wake up at all, but foretold of events soon to follow.
The frustration and responsibility embraced by the families who, consequently organized airport security to "assure that this could never happen again", was a huge undertaking.
Indeed, their world, and ours will never be the same. And this piece took a day for me to try to put into words, the effect it had on it's hearing.
Comment for "Unquiet Graves"
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on August 06, 2006 at 10:05 PM | Permalink
Review of Unquiet Graves
As the "Thin Red Line", by Terrence Malik evokes in film, a deep reflection about life, death and war, so does "Unquiet Graves", offer a high quality radio reflection of the same caliber. Helen and Marjorie hit a little felt nerve by our citizens at home in the U.S, when exploring what wars do to a people, on home turf. No one can escape the effects of war today. A sobering thought.
In an intimately gentle voice, the listener, is directed to join a tour with an Englishman, who relives the horror of gas clouds in WW I, learn of survival techniques (such as how to use your bodily functions in a specific formulation), and how the Northern Europeans honor one another in memorials.
Honoring the dead, and clutching to the neighbor; these people were kin, now. They all lived to tell the tale. There is a depth here. You're kin to Terence Malik, I think. Great story. Very evocative.
I thoroughly enjoyed the production value: writing into tape, use of an English tour guide, the sounds of a radio broadcast, woven into the tape, with various interviews with the local peoples in Flanders. Nice use of echos for past recall.
And a fitting visual, the use of the poppy flower, to open and close the piece.
Comment for "COMEDY-O-RAMA--DAWS BUTLER WORKSHOP: "Forget Metaphor! Whatta You Mean?" with Nancy Cartwright" (deleted)
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on July 21, 2006 at 09:17 PM
Review of COMEDY-O-RAMA: Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop (deleted)
Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop, is a voice actors delight.
Perhaps because much of the cartoon characters in episodes 13 and 14 are closer to my contemporary experience, I found this radio-documentary both educational, delightful and thoroughly engaging. June Foray, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler re-living the fun, playful moments which created cartoon classics, as well as opening the experience for the listener to discover how these character voices were created. Inversely, I found the acting from the earlier episodes (circa 1940's) slightly less compelling: partially due to the flat female voice actors abilities.
This may be contributed to the era's styling, or to the lack of direction given the female voice actor. Regardless, Joe transports us into the "secret" world of the voice-over genre.
Comment for "Vinyl Cafe-April 23 2006-"The Science Experiment"" (deleted)
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on April 23, 2006 at 10:44 AM
Review of Vinyl Cafe-April 23 2006-"The Science Experiment" (deleted)
Opening this piece is some little known history of the Finnish people, and their competitive, albeit, quirky sense of humor (St. Eru ?). Since I am first generation Finnish, I was pleased to hear it.
I like the host's Canadian voice, the references to Canada, the music groups he featured, and the story to finish (no pun intended). Nice pacing, good auditory visuals with the story: I felt like I was a part of the live audience.
Comment for "Eye Contact"
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on January 21, 2006 at 09:22 AM | Permalink
Review of Eye Contact
The observation that 2 people could be, by chance, moving in the same direction, as to give one the sense of being followed and the other the uncomfortable awareness that they aren't following them, but are moving in the same direction, and to give it enough merit to record it as a phenomena, is a great idea.
A nice drop in for a safety topic on air.
I don't know whether I've accurately chosen tones descriptive of this piece. However, truthful, or observant are some of the other tones I'd have chosen, if available.
I love the choice of music beds. Initially, I was confused by the voices (were they people talking to each other, folks standing next to each other ? for example), it took a moment to finally hear that these were people in self talk mode.