Sound School Podcast
The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 364
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
HowSound Reviews "Song Exploder"
In an effort to try something new, Rob offers another podcast review. This time, "Song Exploder" from Radiotopia.
00:19:05 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
HowSound Reviews "Stay Free: The Story Of The Clash"
Despite hours of great material, there are a couple things about Spotify's "Stay Free: The Story of the Clash" that really make Rob cranky.
00:23:23 |
Tue 23 Jul 2019
The Hidden Work Of An Associate Producer
Who are all those people at the end of an episode of Reply All, given credit for putting it together? One of them is Jessica Yung. She's an Associate Producer. On this episode of HowSound we shine a …
00:21:10 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
First, Tell Them An Anecdote
When you have guests as famous and interesting at Tan France, Ramy Youseff, Wazina Zondon, Ryan Harris, and Alia Shawkat, why does the host of Tell Them I Am start each episode talking about herself…
00:22:47 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Asking Questions
NPR reporter Uri Berliner breaks from his usual approach to storytelling and finds interviewing his dad about growing up in Berlin in the 1930s to be incredibly difficult and rewarding.
00:14:11 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Some Fav And Not-So-Fav Sounds
Sewage pipes, a radio crime, and sound designing inner thoughts.... Must be another episode of Rob's fav sounds but this time with a twist -- a sound that annoyed Rob to no end. Clips from BBC 3 and …
00:18:41 |
Wed 29 May 2019
Getting Inside Someone Else’s Skin
Every once in a while, I think HowSound should focus solely on interviewing. To heck with sound design, writing, ethics, tracking, and the like. Just focus on “the backstory to great radio interviewi…
00:24:35 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Eight Things I Like About 10 Things That Scare Me
On this episode, the convention-busting production choices of "10 Things That Scare Me."
00:11:46 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
Nuggets
Sometimes, there's just too much good work to feature on HowSound. To solve the problem, from time to time I feature a slew of ear-catching clips on one episode. On this episode, work from Believed, …
00:17:35 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
How Sruthi Tracks
At a school where I taught radio, in the mic booth, there was a photo of Studs Terkel hanging on the wall. Under it, someone wrote “Talk to Studs.”
The picture was there to help with tracking. Narr…
00:15:29 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
An Editor’s Fingerprints
Since 2009, Julia Barton's edited a lot of radio and podcasts you probably listen to including Revisionist History. On this HowSound, Julia talks shop about her approach to editing.
00:20:22 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
All The Sound We Can Not Hear
Jeff Emtmen pulled an audio sleight of hand in an episode of Hear Be Monsters about Mexican free-tail bats. It's a delight to listen to. To understand Jeff's trick, Rob offers a primer on sound and h…
00:12:47 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
Two From The Road In Nashville
Why do students at Transom's Traveling Workshops produce such solid work on very little sleep? Because they're driven to learn? Yup. Because they want to leave the workshop with something they're pro…
00:22:19 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
A Sonic Conjuring
On this episode, a fascinating minute of audio - the sound of war and peace reconstructed from the exact end of World War I. Even more fascinating, the producers - Will Worsley and Sam Britton - conj…
00:11:42 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
Twitter Vox
Back in September, Barrie Hardymon and Dana Cronin produced a short, sharp, shock of a story. One that featured tweets recorded by listeners including a tweet that had to be approved by NPR legal bef…
00:11:38 |
Tue 22 Jan 2019
Taking Control Of The Music
Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda compose music for stories at Reveal. HowSound's Rob Rosenthal talks with them about the way they think about music and scoring. We think you’ll find it instructive, eve…
00:21:10 |
Tue 08 Jan 2019
Your Skull Is An Ear
Up now on HowSound, a recent doc from BBC 3 called "Right Between the Ears" features ear-catching sound design and reveals how ears aren't the only part of the body involved in hearing.
00:15:13 |
Wed 26 Dec 2018
Making Sense Of A Pile Of Tape
A pile of tape just might be a treasure trove of radio gold. But how do you go manage it? Bianca Giaever has answers and a touching documentary called “Two Years with Franz” produced with Jay Allison…
00:20:21 |
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Enticing Listeners To Press Play Again
That feeling you have at the end of a serialized podcast where all you want to do is press play again -- what causes that? Rob talks to Leah Sottlile and Ryan Haas from Bundyville about episode endin…
00:29:19 |
Tue 27 Nov 2018
These Are A Few Of My Favorite (Recent) Clips
A student once asked me “How do you find the stories you feature on HowSound?” I’m asked that a lot, actually. And, I’m sorry to say, I don’t have any secrets to reveal. I probably find stories and p…
00:18:27 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
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