Third Coast Pocket Conference

Swirling beneath every single one of this year’s breaking stories and major crises is work and labor: not only of the people in the headlines, but of the audio storytellers, ourselves.How does the med...

3 Mar 20201h 15min

We're BACK with a new season of the Third Coast Pocket Conference! This season: the 2019 Third Coast Conference.Inspired by the energy of the 2018 Awards Ceremony, we're kicking off this season with t...

24 Feb 20201h 26min

At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Kaitlin Prest, audio artist, radiophile, creator of The Heart from Radiotopia and The Shadows from the CBC, talked about what has inspired her to push the boundarie...

28 Feb 201949min

Just as our eyes work together to create a sense of depth perception, so too do our ears...And yet, so few radio and podcast productions take advantage of the full stereo field—how differences between...

26 Feb 20191h 5min

Behind many audio stories, there’s stacks of paper and documents full of text. Old interview transcripts that predate recording technology. Letters found in a box. Court records. Emails.In this sessio...

13 Feb 20191h 33min

What does it mean for a podcast or radio story to be “innovative” or “experimental”? Is it in the writing? The structure? The use of sound?At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Andrew Leland and Michell...

8 Feb 20191h 29min

Using found reels of an old wire recorder from the 1950's, interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi created her performance piece, "Say Something Bunny!" heralded by the New York Times as “fort...

6 Feb 20191h 1min

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce...No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as...

31 Jan 20191h 11min