Chicago Public Radio - Third Coast Festival FeatureCast

Sound artist Alessandro Bosetti explores the musicality of language and the feelings of inanimate objects.

Stories and sounds by multimedia artists Mendi and Keith Obadike.

Cartoons on the radio?! Yes. Hear eartoons by Peter Blegvad and David Isay and Ben Katchor.

An excerpt from "Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio" by Nate DiMeo

A Third Coast Short Doc retrospective + info on our latest public audio project. Listen...and then grab a mic and make a story yourself! Yes!

Two selections from Deep Wireless, a radio art compilation from New Adventures in Sound Art.

Three stories from War News Radio + producer interviews.

Aaron Ximm (a.k.a Quiet American) is a field recordist and sound artist. Today we listen to two of his city soundscapes: San Francisco and Hanoi.

UbuWeb is a website. But it's more than just a website -- it's a library, an archive, a museum, and a portal for curious minds and ears. It's full of incredible avant-garde oddities, found sound, outsider experimentation, and so, so, so much more. This week, we talk with UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith and sample of a few of Ubu's amazing offerings.

This week we bring you an excerpt of "Radio Across Time Zones", a Third Coast Festival special broadcast featuring amazing and inventive radio stories from Canada, Ireland, England, Australia, and France. It's like having a magic receiver that can tune in to frequencies from all around the world!!!

Back in the 1970s, when NPR was just a fledgling organization, Keith Talbot emerged as a sort of mad scientist of radio, experimenting with sounds, styles, and formats at a time when public radio as we know it was only beginning to emerge. We feature two of his radio stories today.

The Tourist is lost... he can't sleep, or tune out the music that comes from everywhere. He doesn't enjoy being at odds with his new environment and so secretly is looking forward to the journey home. Combining lush field recordings and a stark written narrative, The Tourist obliquely approaches the story of a fictional traveler, a melancholy innocent abroad.

This week, we bring you the story of the Little Hot Dog Shop That Could. Since it was founded in 1929, Original Kasper's has become a community mainstay in Oakland, CA, helping to hold the community together through difficult times.

This week, sounds and stories from barber shops. We feature a few tracks from Zoe Irvine and Mark Vernon's "Hairwaves: A Cautionary Tale".

This week, we bring you a little taste of the Third Coast Festival "Listening Room", this time featuring stories by young producers and a lively discussion of those stories.

Producers Jesse Hardman and Lucho Hernandez take us on a sound tour of Lima, Peru. With music by Hauschka.

Featuring work by sound artist, composer, and performer Pamela Z.

We dig in the archives and pull out an old episode of Invisible Ink, produced by the Third Coast Festival's own Roman Mars.

Featuring three episodes from the Tin Man podcast and an interview with producer Matt Sahr, who shares stories about the podcast and explains many things that we've been wondering about.

by producers Robynn Takayama and Dmae Roberts of Crossing East

Holy Soul, by producers Matt Power and Dean Olsher

Producer Pejk Malinovski visits a classroom in Queens, NY where students are puzzling through a poem.

Sound artist Alessandro Bosetti explores the musicality of language and the feelings of inanimate objects.

Producer Guy Hand finds the beauty in the much maligned magpie.

Producer Guy Hand finds the beauty in the much maligned magpie.

A meditative roll call of those who've died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two stories from a collection by Sherre DeLys and Rick Moody.

"Olive and Jack" from Jill Dorothy Summers' Cohabitation.