Re:sound!

Hi all. Apparently the excellent public radio program re:sound chose to air Episode 48: Florida Recount Poker this week on their show. We knew this was coming up, but didn't know it was this week, so it was exciting to get mail from new listeners today. Thanks Roman, Gwen, and everyone over there! I haven't listened yet, but I was reviewing the line-up. Some really great stuff.

The first piece in the line-up was from Sue Mell, who contributed to CoS back in Decemeber with Episode 54: Behind the Phone Books. Re:sound broadcast Sue's first episode from her own podcast Unintended Detours, which I'm sure is going to be great!

Next up is my neighbor, Benjamin Walker, radio auteur. I've never met the guy, but he assured me we'd grab coffee sometime soon. That was four months ago. That aside, I LOVE his podcast, Theory of Everything. Amongst the best out there. Check it out.

I don't know Lloyd Broadnax King of The Obscure News, but it sounds cool...

I recently discovered Matt Sahr's Tin Man through Third Coast's Featurecast. It is really really cool stuff. He's translating some concepts of classical clown work to podcast form. He has developed some very intriguing characters that exist in a very bizarre fantasy world. I must admit, I was a bit put off by his indelicate and unsubtle anti-corporate message, which he slips in outside the stories/skits/soundscapes as fake "commercials," but they hardly detract from the beauty of the surreal and refined facets of his work.

They finished the bunch with us. It sounds like a good listen. I listen to Re:sound every week as a podcast, but I don't think they podcast their most recent episodes. I think the way in which they choose their podcast schedule is a bit haphazard, so I have no idea when this episode will show up in my iTunes, but you can stream it online here. I know I will before the weekend's out.

An Apology

Catalogue of Ships would like to sincerely thank everyone who has written us or left snarky MySpace comments the last few weeks asking us what the heck happened to us.

As you may know, Catalogue of Ships has failed to produce any new material since the new year. We apologize for this. Our intention was transition from being a weekly podcast created by only David and Michael, to a more open forum for collaboration and experimentation.

It turns out that for us, this is a much more difficult undertaking, though it is still our goal. We have refined our submission guidelines which can be found here, and we look forward to receiving submissions. We must make a true apology to those who submitted stories prior to now. It turns out that text submissions are nearly impossible for us to work with.

Just because we have not been producing Catalogue of Ships does not mean we haven't been creating new work! Michael created a live performance for the New York based theatre company Target Margin in February, and Michael and David adapted several episodes of Catalogue of Ships for a live performance in Chapel Hill, NC, in early March. We will be posting both of these in coming weeks.

In the meantime, please poke around our archive to listen to old episodes, and think about how YOU might contribute to the future!

Thanks for listening.

Michael Kraskin and David Terry

Live show!!

Hey, all. I just wanted to get the word out that it looks like we will not have a January episode.

However, if you are in the NYC area, come check out my live show, Taking One for the Team, a commissioned piece for Target Margin Theatre.

It will be very Catalogue of Ships-esque.

Then we are looking at three or four brand new episodes in February, followed by a big special Catalogue of Ships live event in early March.

More info to come.

mk

Happy (belated) Hannukah!

Our Year 2 experiment continues tonight with Episode 54: Behind the Phone Books, our first experiment with teaming up a writer and composer who have never met or spoken with each other.

The story is by Sue Mell, an independent radio producer and freelance bed stylist(?) from San Francisco. You can check out more of her work at PRX. If you have a moment, I highly recommend "For Love," which she produced with Roman Mars of the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Look for her podcast, Unintended Detours, coming soon!

Dylan Ris is a student of film scoring and composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. His music has been heard all over the country at places like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and HERE in New York City. A few years ago, he helped me write the music for the song "I'm Tired" (click here to listen!) from the play "Lenny and Lou" by Ian Cohen. He also wrote the stunning score for the short film "Yoshi" by AD Weiss which you can watch for free here.

For our next episode, we are asking for stories about Taking One for the Team. Have you, or anyone you've known been in a situation in which you are asked to make a personal sacrifice for the good of the team, but not really been so into the idea your self? Kind of like this woman...

If so, record it or write it down and send it to us at catalogueofships@gmail.com

mk