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
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
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Why are we drawn to stories of escape? How do we know when we've escaped or when we’ve been captured? Today’s show features stories of narrow escapes, written and read by the winners of our first story contest. The dangers of professional panty sniffing, a maybe catastrophic encounter with abandoned tires, and a short story recalling a scary chapter in Stanford's past.
Producers: Lee Konstantinou and Charlie Mintz
Host: Lee Konstantinou
Featuring: Amanda Glasser, Erika Harrell, Mandy MacCalla
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/133-episode-211.html
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Although superheroes may seem like two dimensional relics of our childhoods, they can have a significant impact on our lives. Stories of superheroes battling in academia, superheroes living among us, and fictional superheroes fighting real-world battles.
Producers: Micah Cratty, Lee Konstantinou and Matt Larson
Host: Micah Cratty
Featuring: Professor Scott Bukatman and Robert Walker
Music: Kissing Johnny and Noah Burbank
More info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season-2/161-episode-215.html