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A Handbook for Audio Storytelling evolved out of my fascination with sound, audio production and storytelling. For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by broadcasting, and the sound of the human voice. I grew up in an rural setting in upstate New York. I spent a lot of time alone. One day when I was a boy, I got my first FM radio. Soon I discovered an NPR station called WRVO, which was located on the SUNY Oswego campus about 40 miles from from where I lived. The station had very little money, so it played a schedule of old time radio rebroadcasts from the 1940s, which cost them nothing because they were part of the public domain. Soon I was hooked. I spent night after night listening to 40-year-old radio programs like The Shadow,Mercury Theater of the Air, Dimension X, and Escape!. These programs captured my imagination and transported me to another time. By the time I was 12, I was volunteering at the radio station during membership drives. Years later, after college, I became a radio reporter and eventually a radio producer. I went on to work at radio stations in New York and Florida, and was senior producer for a handful of nationally distributed public radio programs.
I love the sound-rich radio documentaries produced by BBC, CBC and NPR. Like Ira Glass, I believe radio is our most intimate medium. I believe you can learn a lot about composition through the act of creating an audio story. I think making these stories can teach you about other people, about yourself, and about life. Building this kind of story begins with the act of listening.
Over the years, I taught interns how to gather sound and to make radio stories. I always wished there was a way to help others learn to tell their own stories using sound. Since nobody else had done this, I thought I'd give it a try. It's a work-in-progress. I plan to keep working on it until I get it right. Please let me know what you think, and how I might improve the site.
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