Soundings
Soundings is the sandbox for all student work from the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP). SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants, along with its radio show State of the Human.
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Episodes
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
In just 10 weeks, Stanford students learn how to craft and create Broadcast-quality narrative podcast episodes from start to finish. The Winter 2023 class was taught by Stanford lecturer and managing editor Laura Joyce Davis, and includes stories that explore the benefits and pitfalls to our reliance on technology, the connection between language and culture, and what our bodies communicate about our ancestral and personal histories.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Little Tokyo is a small neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. Since 1905, it has been home to generations of Japanese Americans. Today, gentrification is threatening to destroy everything these families have built. This episode tells the story of one community's struggle for survival and the ways in which historical development has both fractured and solidified its people. For some, home is a bed one sleeps in. For us, home is Little Tokyo.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Journey Through Generations by Arundathi Nair by Stanford Storytelling Project
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
The town of Rhinelander Wisconsin has a curious obsession: the Hodag, a fearsome green beast that a lumberjack allegedly discovered there in 1893. Entranced by the legend, Isabella and Sam travel to Rhinelander to uncover what’s behind the Hodag— and to decide if they should believe, too.
Music in this story is provided by Blue Dot Sessions (An Unknown Visitor, Vernouillet, Color Country, Darn that Weasel, Still Nite, Gamboler, and The Bus at Dawn) as well as Hodag Hunters by Ben Burnell and Andrew Egan. Sound provided by freesound.org.