Third Coast Audio Library :: All

Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico. Year: 2010 Producers: Aengus Anderson James Ford Howell

Randy Morton of Pacific Piano Supply in Chatsworth, California talks as he prepares to re-string the Myrow family Steinway. Year: 2010 Producers: Rachael Myrow

At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility. Year: 2008 Producers: Eric Molinsky

Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again. Year: 2010 Producers: Ben Zimmerman

This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee. Year: 2010 Producers: Joe Richman Samara Freemark Nate DiMeo Delaney Hall

Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable. Year: 2010 Producers: Jill Strauss

One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews. Year: 2010 Producers: Aengus Anderson

This hour: the experience of the city -- from the bicycle seat, the planner's map, and the poet's pen. Year: 2010 Producers: Katie Burningham Zak Rosen Al Letson Delaney Hall

This hour: the capital of scamming. Year: 2010 Producers: Susan Murphy Sharon Davis Timothy Nicastri Jacob Anderson Delaney Hall

This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world. Year: 2010 Producers: Alix Blair Neil Sandell Alessandro Bosetti Delaney Hall

Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government. Year: 2009 Producers: Alessandro Bosetti

Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music. Year: 2003 Producers: The Books

Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El... Year: 2009 Producers: Alan Hall

For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill. Year: 2009 Producers: Sean Hurley

Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels. Year: 2009 Producers: Katie Mingle

An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Year: 2009 Producers: Chris Sewell

An onomatopoetic memory of Chicago. Year: 2009 Producers: Aaron Ximm

A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists. Year: 2009 Producers: Sean Cole

Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El. Year: 2009 Producers: Neil Sandell

Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence. Year: 2009 Producers: Noe Cuellar

This hour: one woman's comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country. Year: 2010 Producers: Trey Kay Deborah George Delaney Hall

A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording. Year: 2009 Producers: Laura Vitale Rick Moody

Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers. Year: 2009 Producers: Rich Halten

This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries. Year: 2010 Producers: Charles Maynes Brent Clough John Jacobs Delaney Hall

Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934. Year: 2009 Producers: Heather Radke