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
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
What happens to us when we travel? How do we get beyond the brochure (and should we)? Poets, a professor of ecology, an observer of the Malaysian meat market, and a researcher who studies sense of place work toward answers and share stories of discovery on the road.
Producers: Elizabeth Bradfield, Daniel Hirsch
Host: Elizabeth Bradfield
Featuring: Joshua Rivkin, John Evans, Laura McKee, Peter Vitousek, Nicole Ardoin, Samantha Wai, Michelle Traub, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Daniel MacDougall
Music: Volunteer Pioneer, Johnny Hwin, Natalie Dawn, Eli Herwitz, The Reiterators, and Midawe
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/109-episode-207.html
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
The human brain was built to predict the future. If you can't see what's coming, you can't survive. Tea leaves, entrails, and complicated algorithms are just a few of the ways humans have tried to divine the future for personal gain. Today on our show we have three stories about various attempts to look into the future. A Berkeley undergraduate tries to beat the racetrack, economists attempt to predict recessions, and a software that can listen to a song and predict whether it's going to be a hit. Guess which one is the most successful, and who forgot about a couple very important variables.
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Daniel MacDougall, Bonnie Swift Jonah Willihnganz
Host: Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Sarah Rizk, Sam Alemayehu, Paul David, Howard Schwartz, Mike McCready, Jadena, Koji Gardiner, Eleanor Safridge Fields, Kasiana McLenaghan, Robert Mintz
Music: Koji Gardiner, Ian Burrell, Andy Seymour, Jeff Striker, Pascel, Boomsnake
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/153-episode-209.html
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
There all sorts of ways to send a messages: composing an email, writing a text message, pasting up fliers, or literally writing on the wall. In this show, we explore the various ways people communicate: digital and analog, private and public, even legal and illegal. The surprising origins of online social networks, the world of graffiti art, and bathroom stall vandalism.
Producers: Dan Hirsch, Will Rogers,
Host: Dan Hirsch
Featuring: Fred Turner, Molly Butcher, Lyndsey Garlock, Lexi Tsien-Shiang, Mitchell Wilcox,
Music: Johnny Hwin, Lauchlan Casey, Ill-Conditioned
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/99-episode-210.html
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Sometimes our rites of passage are marked by large ceremonies, like graduations or weddings. But often the transformative moments of our lives come not on stage, but when we quietly face the challenges we are presented with. The strange importance of the unicycle in a young man’s life, Texas debutantes, and a 22-year-old trying to make it as a reporter in the real world.
Producers: Micah Cratty, Matt Larson, Will Rogers
Host: Micah Cratty
Featuring: Jon Ho
Music: Volunteer Pioneer, Kissing Johnny, Noah Burbank
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/129-episode-212.html