Sound School Podcast

Staying The Course In A Tough Interview

Navigating Mongolia With Fixers

Scoring Stories: Part 2

Effective radio scoring relies on using music as a structural tool to signal scene changes, much like white space on a page. Placing music at transition points helps listeners navigate shifts in focus, provided the timing avoids repetitive patterns that sound predictable. Techniques like "hitting the post"—aligning nar...

Scoring Stories: Part 1

Scoring a story with music requires a disciplined approach where the narrative structure and sound design carry the weight of the content before introducing musical elements. Music functions primarily as "white space," acting as a sonic cue to demarcate scene changes, shifts in time, or new thematic chapters in the abs...

Interviewing For Emotions

Jaw-Dropping Clips

Anything Can Happen. That's The Best Part.

Bellwether's Speculative Journalism

HowSound Reviews "Song Exploder"

HowSound Reviews "Stay Free: The Story Of The Clash"

The Hidden Work Of An Associate Producer

First, Tell Them An Anecdote

When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Asking Questions

Some Fav And Not-So-Fav Sounds

Getting Inside Someone Else’s Skin

Eight Things I Like About 10 Things That Scare Me

Nuggets

How Sruthi Tracks

An Editor’s Fingerprints

Revisionist History episodes function as sermons, utilizing extended, mysterious preambles to build narrative tension before revealing the central subject. This editorial strategy relies on the audience’s curiosity, allowing for slower information delivery than standard reporting. Transitioning print-based writers to a...

All The Sound We Can Not Hear