MURMUR TRACK
This project is an audio track designed as ambient sound for a traveling Habitat for Humanity exhibit on Poverty Housing. The concept is that two overlapping tracks play on different speaker systems as you walk around this photo and graphic exhibit. They are intended to mix with existing ambience and subtly reinforce the message. It is called a ‘murmur’ track because it is intended to run at an almost imperceptible level, like a whisper. This mix runs about 20 minutes.

WHO'S THAT STRANGER?, 29 min. (2007). Writer/Director/Camera/Editor
Winner: Audience Award, Rome (GA) International Film Festival, screened at Atlanta Film festival.
At 95, Kasper 'Stranger' Malone holds the Guinness World Record for the longest recording career in history (1926-2005). As the baby boomers prepare to retire, this film presents an inspiring picture of vitality from someone who simply kept working, 30 years beyond retirement.

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SEEING COLOR: OBJECT, LIGHT, & OBSERVER, 30 min. (2002).
Produced for the National Gallery, this 30 minute HD video explores how painter's use color. Featuring National Gallery curators and restorers, contemporary painters Sean Scully and Sam Gilliam, and a host of others.

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GOIN' TO CHICAGO, 60 min. (2000).
Winner: Cine Golden Eagle.
2001 national PBS broadcast. The story of the African American Great Migrations told through the experiences of a group of former-migrants reurning home for a reunion--"One of the great unsung sagas of human history."

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WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?, 26 x 30 min., (1997)
Produced in conjunction with the Southern Regional Council.
Distributed on over 250 public radio stations nationwide. Winner: Oral History Association's Non-Print Media Award; NFCB Golden Reel "Best National News and Current Affairs Programming" 1998 George Foster Peabody Award. (National reviews). A personal history of the civil rights movement in five southern cities and the music of those times.

TEN THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT, 30 min. (1991)
Winner: Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Charlotte Film & Video Festivals.
A voyage into southern suburban gothic, this homage to the art of Christmas lights and Elvis becomes so much more. Turn up the chroma.

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WORD OF MOUTH, 3 x 30 min., (1987).
Winner: "Best Arts & Cultural Programming" (Golden Reel). National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
National distribution on 75 public radio stations. This three-part series on storytelling asks psychologists, professional storytellers, performance artists, writers, preachers, lawyers, and others: Why People Tell Stories?, Where Stories Come From?, and, Who Is Telling Stories Today?

YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY LOOKIN' AT THE COVER, 30 min. (1987)
Winner: Atlanta Film & Video Festival.
Regional PBS broadcast. A video on the working process of New Orleans' writer/performer John O'Neal--an artist in dialogue with concepts of "community" and social change. Through a mythical character, Junebug Jabbo Jones, O'Neal works the corners of African American history and culture.

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NOTES FROM NICARAGUA, 30 min. (1986)
Winner: "Best Public Affairs Documentary" National Federation of Local Cable Programmers.
Regional PBS broadcast. A music/video travelogue following folk musicians Elise Witt and the Small Family Orchestra on a tour of Nicaragua. The video features interviews with ordinary Nicaraguan people and music performances.

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From the Archives: WORD OF MOUTH, 3 x 30 min (1987)
"Talking out loud involves communication - the very nature of community is strengthened by it; silence is like a closed door. I think when stories are not told, something happens to us. Stories, they're like bread and wine, they're essential to us." -- STUDS TERKEL, writer, Chicago, Ill.

Thanks to Spencer Herzog at Creative Sound Concepts, we have recently digitally re-mastered this award-winning, 3-part radio series about storytelling.

1. Why Do People Tell Stories?

From science and philosophy to the foundation of the major religions, from entertainment to personal revelations; the first program examines the need for narrative, the roles stories play in our lives.

"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories…Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole." -- EUDORA WELTY, author, Mississippi

The second part of the series assesses the origins, history and migrations of stories, and asks why narrative has always played such a prominent role in the southern states.

"When you're talking about an oral tradition, you're talking about something that goes back and forth--you're dealing with continual adaption and interpretation. Two people activating something to make it into what they need it to be for their lives at that moment." -- BARBARA MYERHOFF, anthropologist, Los Angeles, California

From radio talk shows to TV preachers, psychiatrists to stand-up comedians; the final program looks at the impact of change and technology and the implications of a disappearing narrative tradition. These programs feature an engaging blend of anecdote and analysis, woven together in the seamless style of illustration and exchange that imitates conversation.

"If you can tell stories about Lake Wobegon to people fro II I Lake Wobegon and have them believe them even though you made them up, that's success, that's a home run for a storyteller! I've had members of my immediate family call me after I've told a story that was a tissue of lies from beginning to end and ask me if that really didn't happen. It's not a talent to admire-or to recommend to children." -- GARRISON KEILLOR, broadcaster, Minnesota