The World According to Hearing Voices

Host: Barrett Golding“Sledding Party” (21:08 / 1987) Alex ChadwickNPR Alex Chadwick invites America to share their stories of Flexible Flyers and downhill runs in a cross-USA audio Sledding Party, produced by Katie Davis. (Music: “Come to the Meadow” Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet (1974).)“Avalanche” (19:29 / 1993) Scott CarrierSeven skiers go into the back-country, only six return; the story from the perspective of the survivors: Dave Carter, Dwight Butler, Alan Murphy, Chris Larson, and Larry Olson; in memory of Greg McIntyre.“Olympic Speed-Skaters” (7:59 / 1991) Barrett GoldingA training day in the life of three women at the U.S. High Altitude Sports Center in Butte, Montana; with skaters Chantelle Bailey, Tara Laslo, and Mary Doctor, and trainers Michael Crowe and Susan Sandvig.“Vatnajökull” (excerpts /2003) Chris WatsonAnd the sounds of Iceland’s largest glacier, captured by field-recordist Chris Watson, on his CD Weather Report (Touch Music).

Host David Greenberger of Duplex Planet presents glorious moments and observations from people in the last years of their lives:Dave Alvin discusses the song he wrote about his dying father, “Man in the Bed,” from the Western Folklife Center’s What’s in a Song? series.Comedians Bob & Ray are “The Whirleys”.From StoryCorps comes a remembrance from Richard Craig of his days as a dance host on cruise ships.In Sound Portraits “The Ground We Live On” journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality in recordings she made during her father’s last months alive.And host David Greenberger shares some stories told him over the years by the elderly, including “Growing Old in East LA“.https://hearingvoices.com/2008/04/hv008-about-aging/

Hot & dry stories and soundscapes (see Dave’s Deserts for photos from the American West):Coyotes, owls, frogs and songbirds are part of Desert Solitudes, recorded by Bernie Krause and Ruth Happel in the Sonoran and Chihuauan deserts, part of New Mexico’s panhandle.Host Ben Adair heads down to the ghost towns, Opera Houses, century-old abandoned mines, and billion-year old boulders along Death Valley’s “Mojave Road.”Kraut-rockers Faust dial in “Long Distance Calls in the Desert,” from their album Rien.The Quiet American (Aaron Ximm) sound-captures the forbidding warning signs rattling in a harsh wind and “Desert Sun” outside the nuclear Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas.Back in the early 1990s, SLC producer Scott Carrier found the Basin & Range, near Nevada”s “Battle Mountain,” beautiful, lonely, dreary, and full of sagebrush, solace and stories. And more Desert Solitudes.https://hearingvoices.com/2009/08/hv066-desert-air/

"The work we do, from Wall Street traders to taxi cab drivers. People who work with brassieres, dead bodies, lost golf balls, and off-the-books in an underground economy:Meryn Cadell fills out a “Job Application” (1992 Angel Food for Thought).In the 1950s Tony Schwartz conversed with The New York Taxi Driver about “A Temporary Job.” (This 1959 LP is on The Library of Congress National Recording Registry).Steve Fisk recites some “Government Figures” (1980 Over and Thru the Night).Grief and guts fill the work day of Aftermath, Inc: Specialists in Crime Scene and Tragedy Cleanup, Trauma Cleanup, Accidental Death Cleanup. Interview with Tim Reifsteck by Laura Kwerel, produced by Nick van der Kolk; an excerpt from “Aftermath,” a Love and Radio podcast. (L & R’s slogan: “What Ira Glass might make if he showed up to work drunk.”)Cilla Black‘s boyfriend believes “Work is a Four Letter Word” (1968 The Best of Cilla Black).Retired school teacher Paul Neibuhr dons a full wet suit with air tank and transforms into a professional “Golfball Diver.” Produced by Jeff Rice, with music by Leroy Anderson (“Plink, Plank, Plunk!” 1951; theme for the TV game Show I’ve Got a Secret for 24 years; CD: Leroy Anderson Favorites).Ken Nordine wants to be “The Bullfighter” (2001 A Transparent Mask).A Radio Diary from “Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman.” Sez Selma: “Nobody says the retail business was gonna be easy.” Produced by Emily Botein and Joe Richman with help from Ben Shapiro and Deborah George (2002 New York Works).LP CoverTony Schwartz talks with The New York Taxi Driver about “Females” as fares.“Open Outcry” is the trading technique heard on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. This sound-portrait by composer Ben Rubin is a 2002 commissioned by Creative Time for Sonic Garden, World Financial Center, NYC. Features the voices of Madeline Boyd, J. Robert Collins, Jr., David Greenberg, John Hanneman, Vincent Viola, Elisa Zuritsky, and others.John, the Medicine Man does the “Chicago Hustles.” An excerpt from the documentary on the city’s underground economy by our hosts Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler for the 2005 series Chicago Matters: Money Talks.Reinhardt “Buck” Buchli makes a “Fortunate Decision” (2005). A story told and production by David Greenberger of Duplex Planet. Music performed by Bangalore, composed by Phil Kaplan.The New York Taxi Driver waxes work philosophies with Tony Schwartz in “…The Way It Has to Be.”https://hearingvoices.com/2008/09/hv030-nine-to-five/