Third Coast Pocket Conference

Because of the situation with COVID-19, we are releasing the rest of the 2019 Third Coast Conference sessions here tomorrow.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Swirling beneath every single one of this year’s breaking stories and major crises is work and labor: not only of the people in the headlines, but of the audio storytellers, ourselves. How does the media fail to cover the working class, work, and labor? Why is working class, in media speak, a synonym for "white men?" And how does this impact our culture, our world, and our own spaces of work? Unless we confront the system of media we operate inside of and they way power works within our own industry, we can not properly confront and cover structural power and inequality as journalists and audio storytellers. This opening panel from the 2019 Third Coast Conference was hosted by Sandhya Dirks, with panelists Carla Murphy, Afi Yellow-Duke and Emily Guendelsberger. We have a ton more to share with you – resources, events, dates and more. Sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're BACK with a new season of the Third Coast Pocket Conference! This season: the 2019 Third Coast Conference. Inspired by the energy of the 2018 Awards Ceremony, we're kicking off this season with the award-winning producers who took the stage in Chicago in 2019. You can listen to all of the winning stories from the 2019 competition at ThirdCoastFestival.org. We have a ton more to share with you – resources, events, dates and more. Sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Kaitlin Prest, audio artist, radiophile, creator of The Heart from Radiotopia and The Shadows from the CBC, talked about what has inspired her to push the boundaries of audio making. After ten years creating performances, immersive experiences and an award winning podcast she introduces us into the backbone of her inspiration: art, intersectional feminism, and her best friends. You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon!). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just as our eyes work together to create a sense of depth perception, so too do our ears... And yet, so few radio and podcast productions take advantage of the full stereo field—how differences between the “left” and “right” sides of a mix work together to create an immersive sense of space. How can we use this space to help us show vs. tell in radio storytelling, and create more visceral auditory imagery? In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Brendan Baker shared ideas, tools, and techniques to enhance our sense of space as both listeners and producers. You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Behind many audio stories, there’s stacks of paper and documents full of text. Old interview transcripts that predate recording technology. Letters found in a box. Court records. Emails. In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, John Delore discussed ways to bring these materials to life in the sonic realm. He outlined fundamental differences between how the written word & the spoken word communicate meaning and emotion and shared ideas for using reenactments and adapting from fiction to tell a story. You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does it mean for a podcast or radio story to be “innovative” or “experimental”? Is it in the writing? The structure? The use of sound? At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Andrew Leland and Michelle Macklem traced the roots of narrative audio from some of the form’s newest producers back through radio history to the medium’s original innovators, with an emphasis on underrepresented and underheard artists. They made a case for the future of experimentation by exploring a treasure-trove of work that has shaped, and weirdened, the way narrative audio sounds. There is a treasure trove of extra information and resources that come with this episode. Find them on Producer News and on the Third Coast website. We also have a full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon).  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Using found reels of an old wire recorder from the 1950's, interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi created her performance piece, "Say Something Bunny!" heralded by the New York Times as “forthrightly funny and briefly pornographic, it is also sneakily moving." At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Alison invited the audience to participate in an excerpt of the piece. She then examined the performance as a case study in interpreting archival materials through imagination. We can’t share that performance with you here, but you can go see the show “Say Something Bunny!” in New York through July of 2019. In this session, Alison shared approaches to unearthing stories in found objects, using structure to embrace chance and discovery, and layering storytelling to engage and challenge audiences. To following along with the visuals referenced in this session, click here. Watch the videos referenced in this session: - Dan Carter [excerpt] - Hungry Kitty - Say Something Bunny! [excerpt] You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce... No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? How do we find those ways of describing a scene, an object, a person, in a way that brings our audience the full Technicolor experience. Focusing on script, this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference looks at visual language. Australian producer Sophie Townsend shares tips for using narration to allow our audience to see what they’re hearing. You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of The Stoop podcast. She leads these sessions, as a guide from pitch to pitch, and as an editor & mentor. This is the second of two Pitch Panels we’re sharing on this podcast, featuring Nick White (KCRW), Robyn Semien (This American Life) and Irene Noguchi (Today, Explained). You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of The Stoop podcast. She leads these sessions, as a guide from pitch to pitch, and as an editor & mentor. This is the first of two pitch panels we’ll be sharing, featuring editors Jason DeRose (NPR West) and Hanna Rosin (Invisibilia). You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What are provocations? Imagine that you’re hashing out an issue you care deeply about in audio with a friend - except this time, it's live in front of a room of hundreds of people. Don’t be afraid to get shaken up. The 2018 Third Coast conference opened with provocations from: Stan Alcorn, Stacia Brown, Eula Scott Bynoe & Jeannie Yandel, Alex Laughlin, Ryan Natoli, Aliya Pabani, Sam Sanders and Lu Olkowski. You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain, including: how to choose a compelling narrative-based podcast concept worth your moonlighting hours, making the most of your limited budget, and how to find partners, audiences, and more support — all while maintaining a sense of creative joy about your show. Hosted by Julie Shapiro of Radiotopia (PRX), who fields questions like these nearly every day, and with panel of podcasters working with big ideas and slim budgets. Here's the panel from the second day of Podcasting Without a Net(work): Phoebe Unter (Bitchface) Tamar Avishai (Lonely Palette) James Kim (The Competition) You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain, including: how to choose a compelling narrative-based podcast concept worth your moonlighting hours, making the most of your limited budget, and how to find partners, audiences, and more support — all while maintaining a sense of creative joy about your show. Hosted by Julie Shapiro of Radiotopia (PRX), who fields questions like these nearly every day, and with panel of podcasters working with big ideas and slim budgets. Here's the panel from the first day of Podcasting Without a Net(work): Nadia Abuelezam (Palestinians Podcast) David Boyer (The Intersection) Steve Ray (Deep North) You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon). We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

True crime podcasts are everywhere. But in 2018, we listened to one murder mystery series that stood out in extraordinary ways. It’s called Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo. We were so impressed by the work of journalist Connie Walker and her team that we chose Finding Cleo as the winner of our first ever Best Serialized Story Award. So what made the series so exceptional? Quite simply, Finding Cleo upends the genre of true crime. And in this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Connie Walker & producer Jennifer Fowler share how they did it - how to use one mystery to provide a deeper understanding of the causes behind injustice. By letting subjects lead the investigation, and using empathy and historical inquiry as a guide, Connie & Jennifer show how you can tell a richer, more thoughtful story - and even perhaps, challenge the very concept of 'true crime.’ You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript. We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.