"Passport radio almost mine, coming to you live..."

Hi everyone!

I'm Erin Sullivan and I'm in my second semester of the Media Studies M.A. program. I'm originally from Rochester, NY and I went to school at the University of Vermont where I received a double major in English and Film & Television Studies. 

While in college, I was involved with my school's radio station, WRUV, for about 3 years. I was a DJ and had a weekly radio show that was a mix of indie rock and electronic music. I was also Music Director at the station and I was responsible for maintaining contact with record labels and promoters, submitting station play charts, and reviewing new music. I can safely say that it was the best job I've had, with perks that included free merchandise from bands, concert tickets, and trips to both CMJ and SXSW. Sadly, I've left that behind for now. 

I'm excited for this class because I miss being involved in a radio station so much and I hope that I can use my previous experience to help with the operations of WNSR. I would absolutely love to pursue a career in radio or somewhere in the music industry, but for now I have sold my soul to work in advertising. Well, it is radio advertising, so it's kind of related I suppose. Or that is what I'm telling myself anyway.

Hello!!!!!

Hi everyone!

My name is Elise and I'm a 2nd semester senior at Eugene Lang. I was in the WNSR class in spring 2008 when we launched the website and after a scheduling conflict last semester am back, if only for my final semester at Lang. I pretty much listen to the radio 24/7 when I'm in my dorm room, mostly KROCK, which is why I am interning there this semester. It's mostly answering phones and making lists, but its a foot in the door and a good one at that (its CBS!). Anyway, spring 2008 I had a show that never made it on the air called "Introducing..." in which I played music from bands people may not have heard of and gave them a little introduction. In retrospect, it wasn't that good and I am not sure I really want to do that again unless a better format can be given to it. I would like to work on a live music show or the one that is already on the air because I love live music, it is the reason I am writing my senior work paper on it. Really, I love music in general and want to do something in that field; radio, writing or playing. I realize that my tastes might be a bit on the commercial side even though I do listen to bands no one has heard of and am always looking for something new. For the class, I would like to do music programming and have a hand in what makes it on the air. I look forward to working with everyone this semester!

Here are a few radio programs that I have listened to in the past week:
All Songs Considered: 2/2/2009 and 11/2/2006
-I wanted to listen to a music show that had something that I would be interested in and the show seems pretty eclectic. I chose to listen to the second show because Weird Al is hilarious.
Jingles Jangles on WNSR: Killer Bob
- Actually, I think I've listened to all of them or most of them at some point. This one had good music, many sound like noise bands, still a good show. As I said, I would like to potentially work on a live show if possible.
The updates on the occupation at the GF: Day 2
- It really doesn't matter which day I put up. This is how I got my information about the occupation. I just needed to say again that I was ecstatic to see WNSR working so fast to get information out.

--Elise

Hello! this is my intro assignment.

My name is Pablo Zequeira, I am a second year student at Eugene Lang College. I am currently undecided as to what I want to concentrate on as far as my major is concerned. My interest on the newschoolradio is due to the fact that I have been exposed to the radio station environment from a young age. my grandfather had been amongst the first radio personalities in post revolution Cuba, he brought music to the Cuban people through the radio for the first time after the Cuban revolution triumphs. Even so I have no experience in working with anything that has to do with a radio station, but it is something that interest me, mainly music and satirical voice acting, as I like to entertain. I can make most people with a sense of humor laugh a good percent of the time. In prior writing classes some of my professors have complimented  my writing as well as myself by letting me know I can make people laugh, not just in class but in my personal life as well, that does not mean I am a class clown. I try not to make a joke of serious things but I also do not like taking life too seriously as I believe there is enough violence in life and for the most part it is filled with sorrow and way too serious issues. I like creating, and I enjoy what I can conjure up with my imagination. As far as music is concerned I am open to almost all music including country and classical. The one type of music I cannot tolerate is gangster rap or even the more recent rap music, the older hip hop and rap music are the only kind I can listen to without making jokes. I can work in groups although I would rather concentrate on my own work for the most part in order to avoid any confusion, plus this helps me concentrate and create my own material. I am pretty original and I am open to criticism as long as it is helpful. Above all I hope to have a good time even if this is a college course. I look forward in meeting everyone that is partaking in such a fun, and entertaining  radio course.

Pablo Zequeira

feel free to add me on myspace.com/uncubano7

or on the facebook.

Some Introductory, Pragmatic Info

Hello class! I'm Cambra, the Media Studies/Radio Lab TA. I worked with last semester's class as well, and I'm looking forward to helping the station grow and evolve even more this semester! I think we have a really great group this time around.

Briefly on me: I'm in my last semester in the Media Studies MA program, working on my thesis, which is about radio art and the female body. I can elaborate if anyone is interested, but I'll spare you here.

I want to point out a few things on the site and some general information to get us off and running this semester! First, you will notice a link on the right-hand side of the blog home page labeled "Campus Contacts." This is an ongoing list of various people to contact if you are interested in covering/are assigned to cover campus events. As most of you probably know, The New School's various divisions disseminate event calendars monthly. If you or your production team want to cover events on this calendar, you can contact the appropriate party in the spreadsheet directly to facilitate the process. I will be adding to this list as the semester goes on, and I encourage anyone with links to various divisions/departments to let the class know!

Also, a few of you mentioned wanting to work in "radio drama" in some respect during the semester. Some Drama faculty were kind enough to draft a list of Drama students who expressed interest in being involved in WNSR productions. This list appears as a link called "Drama Student Pool." I encourage anyone looking for acting/voice over talent to contact these students!

Finally, I thought I would link to some interesting listening to inspire us ! Benjamen Walker is one of my favorites the last few years. He has worked in public and freeform radio used to have a regular podcast until he stopped updating it in favor of, I'm sure, more important things. I think it's a lot of fun and a nice "fact/fiction" blend, to give you an idea of what's possible on the air. There are also lots of great listening/informational radio links on the blog home page; I encourage everyone to poke around.

Enjoy. I look forward to working with all of you this semester!

hia

My name is amelie ray and I've been a dj for the past couple of years out in the Northwest. I just transfered from Evergreen in Olympia, WA to parsons and lang as a jr. status ba/fa student. I've mostly done live shows for different radio stations, but i did work in new orleans on converting radio algiers to webcasting similar to what were doing with WNSR. I'm really excited about working on this project and let me know if anyone is interested in working on my womyn's music political show.

best,

am

This is Hethre. I am currently not in school, but I was a Lit concentrator at Lang before they graduated me out of school. The plan is to return to school w/ the media studies program this spring.  I love radio, especially terrestrial, but I am coming around to fully embracing internet radio with all it has to offer too. I've worked at WBAI for a few years and I hope that WNSR never ends up with problems like that station has. It is important to keep radio fun and playful. Since graduation I have made sound art and even "shown" it at a gallery! That was fun. 

Here is my list of suggested listening: 

Love and Radio The episode entitled "Bloody Fingers" really demonstrates the visual capabilities of the audio medium.

The third coast festival Re:sound Podcast Listen to episode #98 and welcome the return of radio drama in "More Than a Game" 

Brini Maxwell's Hints for Gracious Living

Off the Hook

Joe Frank

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Club Awesome! Despite the stupid name, it's not terrible.

B-side Radio Podcast

Secret Unofficial WireTap podcast

If you type "Gene Simmons" + "Terry Gross" into google and click the first result, then you will find an interesting interview from Fresh Air. It sounds like it was recorded in a can because it is bootleg. 

Also I'm writing a paper about this feature Bells in Europe by Peter Leonhard Braun to which you should also listen. 

Howdy.

Hi all,

My name is Andrew Tatreau. I am originally from Omaha, NE and am currently a junior at Lang with a media studies concentration. My primary area of work is in digital media, and documentary film. In high school I was the producer of our cable television show which aired every three weeks on the local public access channel. Right now I am in the middle of editing a fund raising video through the New School for the I Have A Dream Program, and my own freelance documentary on a 22 year old friend of mine who just opened up an art gallery in the LES.

When it comes to radio I am practically a novice. Since I work heavily in visual media, I thought I would challenge myself by working solely with sound for once. I listened to the "New Jobs, Old Professions" feature on the NSR website. Aside from the poor sound quality, I feel that the piece lacked depth. There were a variety of women who discussed their experiences, risks, etc. But what I wanted to know was how being a dominatrix affects social and familial relationships. Are these people open with siblings, parents, grandparents about this profession? Is it possible to date while working this job/have any of the women had boyfriends or girlfriends while working? I also would have liked more specific recollections, from those being interviewed, about their strangest encounters, when and how they felt in danger, etc. A lot of what the women said were vague statements.

Júlía says hi

My name is Júlía Hermannsdóttir and I am a junior year student of illustration at Parsons. I am from Iceland but moved here for school 2 years ago. If you are interested I have a personal blog titled Stories from Icemerica.

I grew up listening to Icelandic public radio but moved on to American public radio when I came here. I did need much convincing though, as I did not believe that a non-american person could enjoy a radio show with a title like "This American Life". I was wrong, ofcourse.

These days I listen to New York Public Radio almost every morning as I get up and every night as I go to sleep. When I am not getting up or going to sleep I listen to podcast radio. It is especially helpful to listen to radio programs while doing the time consuming manual labour of illustration work. It is very calming to listen to public radio while drawing and I know that many artists do this.

Some of my favorite (and recommended) podcasts are: This American Life, Radio Lab, the Savage Love Podcast, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Selected Shorts and the Classic Tales Podcast.

The WNSR Feature I listened to was New Jobs in Old Profession: Andy Folk.

The feature was fairly interesting and well done in my opinion, although it did not tell me anything I have not heard before. I am pretty sure that anyone who has lived in New York for a couple of years has been exposed to the facts about young people in sex work. If however I didn't live here, I probably wouldn't even know what "Craigslist" is. It was slightly irritating that the volume of Andy folk's voice was lower than the volume of the women he interviewed, and strange that they bleeped out just one word out of many similar ones. But overall, a good effort.

I look forward to working with all of you in this class, and learning more about how a radio station is created.

Hi All

Hey Everybody-
My name is Dennie and I'm a third semester grad student in Media Studies. I'm also pursuing the Media Management certificate. Although I am very interested in the creative production aspect of radio-making, I am going to try to focus on managerial issues that might appear before us as we go on (I take that back...that will CERTAINLY appear before us.) Organization and planning are imperative since we're literally working in time. I am also very interested in promotions for our radio station. It seems that awareness of this station is fairly low, so it would be a nice goal to get as many people involved as possible (or tuning in).

While perusing NewSchoolRadio, I ended up listening to New Jobs in Old Profession by Andy Folk, the piece about contemporary sex workers in the "Features" section of the site. I found it to be very interesting. It also made me realize how creative and inventive we can get in terms of topics and themes.

I listened to NPR to get my public radio fix; it was a piece about some form of managerial boot camp being held at a horse camp (the Business Section). Apparently, manager's can learn about how to solve problems by being given challenges involving horses. It was a straightforward piece that was put together well; mixing narrative, interviews and ambient sound.

I hope to continue to listen to a wide variety of radio shows...from sex workers...to horses...to wherever the wind may take me.

See you in class!

Dennie

Jeff Weiser Intro

Hi WNSR classmates. I am Jeff Weiser and am more than halfway done with my Media Studies Masters program. Hopefully I will graduate this spring. I am teaching broadcast journalism part time now at St. John's University.
I have a broadcast background and have worked in radio and tv. I started in a very small market making $100-dollars a week and worked my way to New York City. I mention the small paycheck because I heard Barack Obama last night say he started making something like $20-thousand a year as a community organizer.
I have worked on the local and network level in television and radio. My resume is varied with stops at CNN, Bloomberg TV and Radio, WINS, WPIX and Fox Five TV. My experience certainly does not mean I know all there is to know. Quite the contrary. I am not a "techie" and some of the up to date techniques and equipment may prove a bit of a challenge to me. But I am not afraid to tackle new ways to create quality content and hope I can contribute to that end this semester for WNSR.

Just saying hello

Hi, Trevor Hagstrom here, 3rd term Media Studies student. This I listened to my normal weekly dose of Morning Editions and All Things Considered. To prepare for class I also caught the "Indie Imports," Dj set, as i found the concept charming. I liked their choice of music and casual style, but expected more than 24 minutes, considering there wasn't much talking or many bells and whistles.

I decided as a first step to becoming a more radio-centric media consumer, to listen to an episode of what some my friends consider their favorite radio show: This American Life. I hope to repeat this feat at least once a week. In addition, I took Cambra's recommendation and checked out the "Making the Hippo Dance" podcast. I think that was a good one to start with. It resonated with me. I definately need a heaping spoonfull of sugar with my science news.

My main work experience lies in newsradio, hence it is what I usually listen to. I hope to help start a WNSR news program, perhaps acting as a newsreporter, article writer and/or producer. I want to get with some of the NSFP peopole and see if they would be willing to read their articles, or allow some of us do it for them.

I personally want to proform in and produce a radio comedy show of my own design. It will be a fake radio, variety, sort of like a radio Colbert Report. I will be looking for funny folks to do some voice acting and commentary. I already found a columnist from the NSFP that I want to snag.

See y'all tomorrow.

Digitial Handshake

Evening Classmates!

My name is Richard Boggs. Let me explain a little about myself. I'm a third semester Media Studies grad student, with a focus on documentary film. The term 'film' is fairly misleading, as the majority of what I study and practice has never touched celluloid. That is both a consequence to how the New School functions, but also due in part to the mixed media approach most news rooms utlize.

I've worked in print, at a couple of newspapers, in radio, at KTRM - a student run radio station, and television news, TRUnews. It is through these experiences I've discovered that these medium have much more in common than any differences I can cite here. The method is the same, as is the purpose - to diseminate information. They are but channels. It is the final product that fluxuates.

I am reluctant to start a new blog on this thing, as I already have one I attempt to maintain, which can be found here. Enjoy it at your liesure. There you will find a few of the audio pieces I've constructed over the summer in the Radio Narratives Class that Cambra also TA'd. Tell me what you think!

Sitting in the first class they other day, I was first overwhelmed by the task before us. It is daunting in some repsect. But we need to understand what kind of opportunity we have in our hands. We have the skills and the energy, and if not the know how, we soon will. We can create something that not only we are proud us, but the New School community as a whole. Not to mention the generations of students behind us.

We can lay the foundation for something great.

I know it.

hey y'all

Hi guys! My name's Cambra, and I'm the TA for the Media Studies class (for all of you I didn't get a chance to talk to last week). This is my third (and final--knock wood) year in the MA program. I've spent the last 4 semesters focusing pretty specifically on sound production and radio art especially. This year I'll be working on my thesis, which is on mediating the female body through radio (I won't bore you here, but I'm happy to practice my cocktail-party spiel if anyone is interested). I'm very excited to be involved in our new(ish) campus station!

I listen to a lot of radio (mostly online, but the old-fashioned way too, when I'm cooking), a lot of podcasts, and a lot of more obscure stuff from various sites and blogs. Since we're starting with the NPR model, though, and since not everyone may be as equally familar with the medium as a whole, I thought I'd start by linking to two of my favorite WNYC shows:

RadioLab is one of the more popular shows on the station, and (in my humble opinion) a fantastic example of how to fully utilize the medium in this context. Good nerdy, science-y fun for all ages, creeds, shapes and sizes.

On The Media is pretty much what it sounds like--a radio-magazine-style look at our mediated society. Some months ago they did a fantastic segment called "Pulling Back the Curtain," which demonstrates the process of cutting and editing a radio show together (for that smooth, polished, oh-so-NPR sound).

For our WNSR assignment this week, I listened to Andy Folk's "New Jobs in Old Profession"--did anyone else listen to this? (It's the first piece under "Features.") I had some comments about some technical aspects, as well as his choice of music beds (particularly a certain Peaches song), but I'm interested to see if anyone else had similar reactions, so I'll wait for Friday's class.

Looking forward to working with all of you this semester!

yours truly

dalia here...

to introduce myself, i direct you to the following: www.vvork.com

xx

Hi

Hello - my name is Kaitlin. I don't know very much about audio/radio language or equipment. The mid-week workshop was helpful. Does anybody know of any books that would be good for an introduction (other than the one we have for class)?