“The difficult thing is always to find the center of the spiral: the narrative anchor that is strong enough to hang all the wandering and meandering and pondering on to.”…

Autopsy Report is certainly composed of visual images and language; it even starts with an image (“chests of drowned men, bound with ropes”) and not an action or character description.…

“We use music, but we also use sound to score our stories.”                 For me, all the articles about utilizing music (or silence) in an audio piece, were highlighting the…

I think I’m gunna need some practice writing (and performing) for sound…And I’m a little nervous about my audio script because I tend to favor long complicated sentence structure. But…

“A quirky voice, some music, a few sounds, a spoken text” This is the “improbable formula” Porter describes for the radio essay that is holding together many of the This…

This week, I was most interested in the breaks and structure of the essays and how they framed a story with distinct, yet interrelated pieces. Both essays, The Search for…

“Freely, effortlessly, thought and feeling move in these consummate works of art, hither and thither between the essay’s three poles- from the personal to the universal, from the abstract back…