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My Piano Tuner

John Tynan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:29:24 +0000

In addition to taking great care of my piano, my piano tuner/technician has an amazing take on his work. This story was written for bsideradio.org and produced with care by Tamara Keith. Rene added some real sparkle at the end with her performance of a piece by Kabalevsky.

My Fake Hair Replacement Ad

John Tynan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:20:42 +0000

Awhile back, as part of a commentary I did for b-side on shaving my head, I asked Steve, my co-worker, to play the part of a person making a testimonial in a late-night hair replacement ad. I created the cheezy background music using ACID, Sony’s loop based music tool, then put the two together in Adobe Audition. Kind of a fun exercise, and Steve did a great job. I thought this would be a good first test of the PodPress plugin for WordPress and it looks like this software will work just right.

Spam is (not) for lovers

John Tynan — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:47:50 +0000

This past weekend, Rene had a story on the Splendid Table. It all started as a joke, a parody of This American Life and was meant to be more an exercise in interviewing each other than anything else — the idea of getting at a conversational interview style being more the point than the actual subject, which was kind of an ordinary event. We came up with the idea for the story while driving to Sedona for vacation, then recorded the audio the next morning simply for fun. Then the minidisk gathered dust for over a year. Last month, Rene sat down one weekend and put it together just for fun. Then the story came to life in its own way.The folks at the Splendid Table did a great job introducing the story. They chose the music at the start of the piece and it just sets everything up just right.

You can listen here. (It’s about 1/3 of the way into the show… I’m not quite sure where).

Enjoy!

Hail Spam!

John Tynan — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:16:51 +0000

(Photo Credit: Luis Perez)

Sometimes I can be such a dork. That’s forgivable, or at least forgettable. My flaw is that I’m not afraid to talk about it. Wait! No. my flaw is that I’m not afraid to talk about it into a microphone.

Even about the most mundane stuff. Just like Brendan or Andy was saying during the Social Media 201 session at ima2007… “People’s opinions aren’t interesting. People’s stories are.” Like in this radio story where I remember standing at the screen door, afraid to step into my own house because I cheaped out and, quite literally, didn’t bring home the bacon.

Listen to this story by Rene Gutel.