Sound
Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro of Third Coast Festival were at Gravitytank during lunch on Tuesday. They talked to us about audio stories which to be honest is something I never put thought into. They have a big archive of awesome audio stories on their website some of which we listened to as a group and discussed. I never thought about what heat sounds like or even how one would tell a rich story with just audio. I am glad that there are people out there like Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro who do think about such things and I am glad I was there to be enlightened by the new storytelling perspective they brought into my life. It’s amazing how so much of my job is about telling stories (most of the time visual ones) yet I never think about the audio aspect of it. I love it when something happens to bring something I never thought about to my attention.
It was also very cool how easily visual images just appeared in our heads while listening to these short audio stories.
Here is a very powerful story by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler:
and an awesome one by Eve Abrams:
Many more can be found on the website (which I’ll be visiting often), great for listening to get your mind off of things for 5-20 minutes at a time.