Audio

 

Podcast production

In the spring and summer of 2024, I worked with the team from Tradeoffs on their three-episode podcast series, The Fifth Branch, which concerns Durham’s innovative crisis-response program, known as HEART. I provided background, gathered audio in the course of eight ride-alongs, and conducted and recorded interviews.

I have produced three episodes of the Ways & Means podcast from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I conducted interviews, wrote scripts, and edited and mixed episodes on climate migration, solar-powered irrigation in Ethiopia, and regenerative grazing.

For Eno Publishers, I fine-tune and mix the podcast series 27 Views, featuring writers in the American South.

For the Duke Divinity School, I edit and mix the podcast Leading and Thriving in the Church, which features interviews that help inform the practice of modern church ministers (note that interviewees were not recorded in the studio, but rather online via Zoom and other applications).

For Capitol Broadcasting based in Raleigh, NC, I mixed the ten-episode series What Remains (2022), and edited and mixed Episodes 11 and 12 of Follow the Truth (2021).

I produced The Battle for NC 11, hosted by retired judge Bob Orr, which ran from November 2021–May 2022.

In November 2020, I worked as an associate producer on the The Improvement Association, produced by The New York Times/This American Life. Over several weeks, I conducted interviews and recorded events surrounding the 2020 election in Bladen County, NC. The tape ended up on the cutting-room floor, but I did get a thank you in the credits.

 

Selected audio work

The Quest
Played at Audio Under the Stars, July 2019

 

Kenny and Jamila
Played at Audio Under the Stars, August 2019

 
 

Haunted
Played at Audio Under the Stars, June 2015

Hear all of these works at my PRX page.

 
 

Audio editing instruction

From 2013–2021, I taught audio editing courses at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, both onsite and online. In 2017, 2019, and 2021, I taught audio editing at the Hearing Is Believing weeklong intensive course led by CDS audio program director John Biewen.

 

Tape syncs

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Research experiment volunteer Shirley Geissinger in Chapel Hill, NC, June 2024

Freakonomics Radio
Multiple interviews and field recordings at Franklin Correctional Center in Bunn, NC, June 2024

The Atlantic
Civic engagement nonprofit director Ashley Shelton, Durham, NC, May 2024

In the Room: Does the Pentagon (or the Cops) Know What Side of the Bed You Sleep On?
UNC–Greensboro GIS specialist Davin Hall, Greensboro, NC, May 2024

PRX: A Motherful World
Author Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Durham, NC, May 2024

The Journal: A Lawyer Says He Doesn't Need Help for Psychosis. His Family Disagrees.
Jennifer Dart, Raleigh, NC, April 2024

American Public Media: What Happened in Alabama?
Western Michigan University professor Sally Hadden, Durham, NC, November 2023

Harvard Business Review: The Essentials: Getting the Feedback You Need
Dartmouth Professor Ella Bell, Charlotte, NC, January 2023

Home. Made.: Electric Lady
Lightning strike survivor Shana Turner, Fayetteville, NC, March 2022

Smithsonian Sidedoor: King’s Speech
NC State Professor Jason Miller, Raleigh, NC, January 2022

The Brown Girls Guide to Politics: Talk to Us, Not at Us
Activist Mia Ives-Rublee, Durham, NC, March 2020

Harvard Business Review: Mastering the Art of Persuasion
Author Jonah Berger, Carrboro, NC, February 2020

The Poetry Foundation: Poems You Can Touch
Poet Dorianne Laux, Raleigh, NC, January 2020

ABC News: Truth and Lies
Reporter Roddy Boyd, Wilmington, NC, November 2019

Play by Players: Sam Cronin
Former MLS soccer player Sam Cronin, Raleigh, NC, November 2019

New Yorker Radio Hour: The Hyperpartisan State
Reporter Charles Bethea, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, state senators, et al., Raleigh, NC, October 2019

Milk Street Radio: Our Thanksgiving Show (beginning at 1:20)
Chef Vivian Howard, Kinston, NC, October 2019

NPR Morning Edition: Diagnostic Gaps
Adoptive mother Ellen Buchanan Weiss, Raleigh, NC, September 2019

NPR Morning Edition: Exercising to Ease Pain
Program manager and client at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, August 2019

Grow Kinder: Mitch Prinstein
UNC professor Mitch Prinstein, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2019

BBC: Cristiani and Her Cello (beginning at 28:00)
Duke professor Larry Todd, Durham, NC, May 2019

 

Theatrical sound design

For Deep Dish Theater, Chapel Hill, 2009–2015: The Liar, Journey's End, A Kid Like Jake, Arcadia, A Queer Kiss, The Cripple of Inishmaan, She Stoops to Conquer, Nathan the Wise, Superior Donuts, Mi Vida Loca, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Summer & Smoke.

For Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, 2008–2013: The New Electric Ballroom, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, Bread Crumbs, Neighborhood 3, Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession, The Receptionist, Act a Lady, Deerhunting With Jesus, Fistful of Love, and Europe Central.

For ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC, 2012: 44 Plays for 44 Presidents.

 

Gear

  • Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder and mixer

  • Rode NTG2 shotgun microphone

  • Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun microphone

  • Sennheiser EW-100 G2 wireless lavaliere microphone (1 receiver/transmitter pair)

  • Electro-Voice RE50 ominidirectional microphone

  • Sony PCM-D50 handheld stereo recorder

I have a network of friends and colleagues I can tap for other gear that might be needed.