Sound School Podcast

By Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.

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July 28, 2015 Producing Science Stories With A Scientist
Producer Kerry Donahue pulls back the curtain on producing science stories with a scientist for PRX's podcast "Transistor."
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July 28, 2015 Producing Science Stories With A Scientist - HowSound
Kerry Donahue says it’s one of the best ways to put more scientists on the air. Kerry’s referring to Transistor, the science podcast from PRX.
The idea is simple. Pair radio producers with scientists to tell science stories. Producers like Kerry handle the storytelling and production. The scientist contributes their expertise and connections in the field. They also conduct interviews and act as host.
In Kerry’s case, she worked with biologist Christina Agapakis. They produced stories about the microbiome (the bacteria that live in our bodies) as a well a piece about gender bias in science.
Kerry thinks a common problem with science stories is that they tend to center around the “gee whiz factor” some stories lend themselves to. She says by working with Christina, the stories were richer and had more context.
Kerry says that producing a scientist as a host is not a whole lot different than producing any host. The job is to make complex stories understandable for a general audience.
To avoid a story full of broccoli, as Kerry puts it, always keep the listener in mind. Sometimes that involves nodding to the listener in the script by keeping explanations clear and recognizing that, in the case of a story about fecal matter transplants, the topic might be “icky for some people.”
Another way Kerry remained listener-focused was by paying attention to how she spoke. She noticed how she explained stories to friends and colleagues during casual conversation and brought that language into the story production.
Kerry offers a lot more insight on producing science stories with a scientist on this edition of HowSound. To hear other Transistors other stories produced with reporter/scientist collaborations, subscribe here. You can listen to more stories with Christina Agapakis here.
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17min
July 28, 2015 Producing Science Stories With A Scientist
Producer Kerry Donahue pulls back the curtain on producing science stories with a scientist for PRX's podcast "Transistor."
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17min
July 14, 2015 Remixing The Music
HowSound's Rob Rosenthal remixes a story from Latino USA by producer Neena Pathak to reveal a different way to score a piece.
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33min
July 14, 2015 Remixing The Music - HowSound
Last year, Transom published a slew of excellent articles about scoring stories. The series was called “Using Music” and it featured insight on scoring from some of the best — The Kitchen Sisters, Brendan Baker, Jonathan Mitchell, Andy Mills, and Pat Mesiti-Miller. This week, HowSound adds to the mix.
Neena Pathak, a former Transom Story Workshop student, scored a story she produced for Latino USA back in April. The piece is called “Sabiduria: Negotiating Identity in a Trans-Racial Adoption.” In it, Tom Molina Duarte talks openly about being born in Costa Rica and raised by white parents in the U.S.
I heard an early draft of the story and thought there was too much music in it — that the story was “wallpapered” with music nearly every second. While that’s not necessarily a bad approach to scoring a story, I believe the music could be used more effectively if it was brought in and out at particular points. Plus, it would be valuable to hear Tom’s voice in the clear, without any music, so that he could speak directly to the listener.
So, I reached out to Neena and asked if I could remix her story — take her original session and rejigger the music. Thankfully, she agreed.
I am very grateful to Neena for allowing me to put her story under the microscope and letting me rearrange what she produced. It’s not easy to let go of something you’ve created and let someone else reshape it — publicly, no less. Thanks, too, to the staff at Latino USA for granting permission to use the story.
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33min
July 14, 2015 Remixing The Music
HowSound's Rob Rosenthal remixes a story from Latino USA by producer Neena Pathak to reveal a different way to score a piece.
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33min
June 30, 2015 A Mom, A Transgender Daughter, And A Podcast
Producer Marlo Mack on the impulse to pick up a microphone and record her transgender daughter for her podcast “How to Be a Girl.”
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21min
June 30, 2015 A Mom, A Transgender Daughter, And A Podcast - HowSound
If my daughter told me she was a boy, I don’t think I’d pick up a microphone and start recording. Of course, maybe my inclination to record would eventually get the better of me and I’d talk to my daughter on tape, but I certainly don’t think I’d make our chats public.
That said, I sure am glad Marlo Mack (not her real name) did.
Marlo is the producer of the podcast How to Be a Girl. Not too long after her then-son said things like “Mama, I’m a girl,” Marlo started recording. In due course, she started a blog. And then she turned the recordings into a podcast — first-person essays about motherhood and, as the tagline of her podcast puts it, “daily life with my transgender daughter.” (By the way, the podcast was featured on Transom about a year ago.)
The podcast is a touching look at motherhood, childhood, and gender. But, it’s more than that. I think Marlo is tackling one of the great mysteries of life: Who are we? And how do we become who we are? In that way, How To Be A Girl is not just for parents or parents of transgender children, it’s for everybody.
On this edition of HowSound, I feature the entire first episode of How to Be a Girl. Marlo talks about the impulse to pick up a microphone and some of the pitfalls of telling stories not everyone is ready to hear.
How to Be a Girl recently joined The Heard, a podcast collective. And, Marlo says, season two of How to Be a Girl will start very soon. In the meantime, be sure to listen to all the episodes of season one. You won’t be disappointed!
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21min
June 30, 2015 A Mom, A Transgender Daughter, And A Podcast
Producer Marlo Mack on the impulse to pick up a microphone and record her transgender daughter for her podcast “How to Be a Girl.”
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21min
June 16, 2015 A Matter Of Ethics
In 2008, student producer Jamie Yuenger recorded a remarkably private moment during a moose hunt. How she got that recording may cause you to raise your "ethics eyebrow."
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19min

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