catapult magazine

Over the last months, I’ve gotten really into “This American Life” on NPR and then into other forms of audio storytelling and art. I just ordered my first Minidisc player last weekend (it was real cool. i started praying for the cash for one and a church just sent me the exact amount).

Anyway, I would definitely like to begin discussing storytelling and art through audio and was wondering if there was enough interest on these boards to do that. If so, let’s put up a new forum.

Do you mean like old-time radio dramas?

I don’t know much about it, but I’m willing to learn.

I wasn’t thinking so much in the way of Old-time dramas, but those could be included. Here’s some sites that can give a better feel:

www.thislife.org – great NPR show
www.transom.org – training ground for new voices
www.stories1st.org – storytelling discussion
www.hearingvoices.com – interesting audio art

If you go to This American Life, check out the staff favorite entitled “Pray.” It pushed me to get more into this.

Maybe there should be a forum in the “arts” section called “other art forms” for things like this that come up.

—Cara