Exercises in Sound

By Alexander DannerArts Fiction Performing Arts Design

Exercises in Sound episodes

November 07, 2025Autobiography as One Man Show
Content Warnings:
Death of a Parent/Family Member

Drug Addiction

Incarceration

Child Endangerment

Child Abandonment

Child Abduction

(The child is ultimately okay. The child was me.)

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Felix Trench.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
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15 min
October 30, 2025Autobiography
Content Warnings:
Death of a Parent/Family Member

Drug Addiction

Incarceration

Child Endangerment

Child Abandonment

Child Abduction

(The child is ultimately okay. The child was me.)

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Felix Trench and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
Find transcripts online at ExercisesinSound.com. For news and updates subscribe to the ThirdSight Media newsletter .
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13 min
October 23, 2025 Richard Burton
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Felix Trench and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
Find transcripts online at ExercisesinSound.com. For news and updates subscribe to the ThirdSight Media newsletter .
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5 min
October 16, 2025 Felix
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Felix Trench and Jordan Higgs.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
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4 min
October 09, 2025 Kitchen Fire
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
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4 min
October 03, 2025 Bedtime Story Narration
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman, with Richard Penner as The Narrator.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
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7 min
September 25, 2025 Storytime Narration
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman, with Julia Morizawa as The Narrator.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
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5 min
September 18, 2025 Intensity!
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
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5 min
September 13, 2025 Suspense!
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
Find transcripts online at ExercisesinSound.com. For news and updates subscribe to the ThirdSight Media newsletter .
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4 min
September 04, 2025 Thunderstorm -- With Commentary Track
Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva.
Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman.
Theme music by Katherine Seaton.
Tile art by Sam Twardy.
Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Queaneau's Exercises in Style and Matt Madden's 99 Ways to tell a story , which conducted similar experiments in the forms of prose fiction and comics respectively.
Funded in part by by grants from HartLife NFP and Emerson College.
For access to an ad-free feed, you can support Exercises in Sound at ThirdSight.memberful.com .
Find transcripts online at ExercisesinSound.com. For news and updates subscribe to the ThirdSight Media newsletter .
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4 min

About Exercises in Sound

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Exercises in Sound is an experiment in audio storytelling. One short scene, re-imagined over and again, exploring how narrative is affected by changes big and small to details of design, editing,…