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The Sounds of Summer: A Message from Membership Director Erin Mishkin (5:22 minutes)
Spotlight
Independence Abroad
by Jean Snedegar
When I was nine, my grandfather died and my father inherited his 1930s shortwave radio. Encased in a beautiful piece of walnut furniture, it sat next
to my father's chair in the den. Underneath the cabinet door was a big dial with numbers and — in tiny letters — cities: “London," “Berlin," “Paris,"
“Rome," “Havana."
We lived in the mountains of West Virginia. At night, I used to love tuning in to faraway stations. During the height of the Cold War, I remember
listening to Radio Moscow and China Radio. But my favorite was the BBC World Service. In my mind, I can still hear the introduction to hourly newscasts,
a posh English voice saying, “This is London," followed by 20 seconds of the 17th-century signature tune, Lilliburlero, which plays up to the six pips of
Greenwich Mean Time.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would one day sit in a studio in Bush House, London, speak into an antique-looking microphone, and
broadcast to millions of listeners around the world.
Calendar
Radio Ephemera
Deadline: Sunday, August 3, at midnight
Last call for Third Coast International Audio Festival's annual
short doc competition.
You could be one of four producers chosen to win a free trip to Chicago for the 2008 Third Coast Festival Conference. Get more details
here!
Sounds Elemental: Water
Monday-Friday, August 18-22
Sounds Elemental: Fire
Monday-Friday, December 15-19
BOTH SOLD OUT
AIR's Sounds Elemental sessions, presented in partnership with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
in New York City, have both been filled up. These popular intensives
attract mid- to advance-level producers looking for that rare opportunity to experiment with
unconventional approaches to sound and telling stories. Keep your eyes/ears open for more in this series, coming up in 2009.
AIR's “Opening the Gate to Social Media"
Thursday, October 9
Deadline to apply: Friday, August 1
Thirty producers will, on a first-come basis, have the chance to spend Thursday, October 9, 2008 — just before Third Coast kicks off — unlocking the
mysteries of social media. The session will provide producers from all corners of the industry the tools for taking the art and craft of public radio
to new places. If you'd like to participate, learn more about it here.
Cool Tools: Billable from Clickable Bliss
The days of generating invoices in Word may very well be behind you. Billable, a program for Mac OS X, allows you to create and manage invoices and also track billable hours all from one application. Kick Billable's tires with a free 30-day demo before deciding whether you want to shell out $34.95 for the real deal. — Erin Mishkin
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