About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: ds106radio
The only station that takes attendance
phb256a · Attendance Bumper In the back end of the ds106radio management system, you can see how many people are listening online, typically zero, and where they are located: One day Nigel was broadcasting from the South Pacific and had … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2616, ds106, ds106radio
Leave a comment
The Sounds of Science
We’ve had three great evenings of live tweeting ds106radio. The point of this was to analyze, together, how sounds can paint pictures and drive stories. My favorite thing about this exercise is that the idea for it came from a … Continue reading
“Good to go on your radio”
Title borrowed from LL Cool J’s 1985 hit “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” We’re into Audio Week, so I put together a three-hour show, the ds106 Hour, for ds106 radio. What it does is take a random sampling of … Continue reading
Agents on air, part 1
We’ve had two nights of ds106 radio broadcasts so far this week. Monday’s shows were Rogue Agents, a fun quiz type show, and Girl Power, an interesting discussion of women in the secret agent business. There is more to say about … Continue reading
The perils of adaptation
For our third and fourth nights of ds106radio live tweeting, we listened to the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious and a BBC adaptation of Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice. The former was from 1948 and the … Continue reading
Time periods and talent pools
For our Wednesday evening live tweeting with ds106radio, we listened to the BBC 2018 radio production of Ian Fleming’s Moonraker. The modern production was a contrast to the previous night’s shows, produced 65 years earlier. The contrast was most apparent … Continue reading
The world is enough for Doug
For our first night of ds106radio tweet-alongs, we listened to two episodes of Douglas of the World, “The Terrorist” and “The Murder Rap.” I had never heard either, and in fact never heard of the show until this past weekend, … Continue reading
The legendary radio shows
Some people inevitably won’t be able to make it to the ds106 radio tweet-along broadcasts of the class radio projects. So I’m providing links here to the shows and background on the characters. Ideally, people should listen in and interact. … Continue reading
“One Step Ahead of the Spider”
A few people referenced audiobooks with regards to the Anansi Boys dramatization. Some of us found this interesting since there are very distinct differences between audiobooks and radio plays, or audio dramatizations. An audiobook has a narrator reading the text … Continue reading
The art of listening to art
We’ve had some great turnouts for our #ds106radio tweet-alongs this week, and some great insights as well. https://twitter.com/KaraDS106/status/1044751128645300224 Is listening a lost art? In the days before television, back in my parents’ and grandparents’ days, listening to radio shows was … Continue reading