Blues from the Inside Out
Dave Specter, a blues musician inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame in 2018, hosts this monthly podcast. Centered around interviews with legends of blues and roots music, this podcast also includes live jam sessions recorded in Evanston, Illinois' SPACE studios.
I produced the first three episodes of this podcast, below, from 2016 to 2017.
Kermit Ruffins is a trumpeter and singer from New Orleans. He co-founded the Rebirth Brass Band in 1983.
By day, Toronzo Cannon drives a CTA bus in the city of Chicago. By night, he is a legendary blues musician signed to Alligator Records.
Episode #3: Sam Lay and Corky Siegel
Sam Lay played drums on Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited. Corky Siegel founded the Siegel-Schwall band, plays harmonica and piano, and is passionate about combing classical music with the blues. Listen to hear more about their extensive musical collaboration and friendship.
Two Silicon Valley companies race to mine the first asteroid for metals, minerals and water. Daniel Faber, CEO of Deep Space Industries, talks to us about his vision of a thriving space economy in Earth's orbit, complete with hotels, sports stadiums and the Olympics on the moon.
Co-reported with Katie Gilbert for the Distillations podcast in January 2016.
Third Coast Festival's Re:Sound - WBEZ Chicago
This hour, stories of detours, bad directions and finding the right path...on the road and in life.
I mixed this episode as an intern for The Third Coast Festival's Re:sound, with help from producer Dennis Funk. This episode aired on WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, in 2014. I also co-produced the short sound design piece "Off Route" with Dennis Funk, featured at the end of the episode.
Transom.org
A Greek archeologist tests a new deep-sea diving suit for the first time. He plans to wear the Exosuit on an upcoming dive to the Antikythera shipwreck, the discovery site of the Antikythera Mechanism. If it works, the suit will support him on dives down to one thousand feet deep.
I reported on this story, and produced the audio, for Transom.org in 2014.
Write Club is the world's greatest competitive reading series. I recorded the host narration and mixed all episodes of the Write Club Podcast since its first airing in April 2015.
The A.V. Club called the Write Club Podcast a "fresh spin on the well-treaded concept of the storytelling podcast" in 2016.
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
Swords, faeries and axes. Two sword fighters talked to us at the World of Faeries Festival in South Elgin, Illinois. They belong to the Swords of Valour, a live sword-fighting performance group from Western Michigan.
Co-reported and produced with Katie Klocksin in 2014 for KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race.
28-year-old artist Coleen Gura has a degree in painting and art history. If you’ve spent time in Woods Hole, you’ve probably seen her art in two different places. But getting her work out in public has posed some unique challenges.
I reported and produced this story in 2014 for WCAI's Creative Life Series, edited by Jay Allison.
Cowbird.com's Daily Story
Phil, a deep-sea diver, had an unexpected sighting when testing a new diving suit for the first time.
This short clip was chosen as Cowbird.com's "Daily Story" on October 21st, 2015.
That Belongs in a Museum is a live event celebrating the stories of "everyday" objects.
I edited the 2015 audio for Catalogs 12 and 13 (I did not record the audio).