Fieldwork

OHMA 2016 Exhibit 4

Edited Audio Pieces

Student Projects from Fieldwork Class
Spring 2016, 2017 & 2018

All OHMA students learn to use Hindenburg audio editing software in our Fieldwork, Production and Archiving course. After an introduction to the tool, they are asked to create a 2-3 minute audio piece using the oral histories they’ve recorded. This can be a barely-edited clip or a heavily-edited montage, one voice or many, narrated or not, with music and sounds or voices only.

Each student plays their draft piece for the class and our guest audio instructor (like Michael Garofalo, Executive Producer for StoryCorps or radio educator Anne Hoffman), provides comments. We ask ourselves questions like:

  • What kinds of stories can we tell in 2-3 minutes?
  • What kind of editing is ethical?
  • Are these ethics different in audio than in print?
  • How do we provide context for a short audio piece like this?

Based on the feedback they receive, the students create a final draft to hand in. Each year we choose a few of our favorite pieces to share online. Enjoy!

– Amy Starecheski, Ph.D., OHMA Co-Director

Samantha Lombard (2018)
“Lots of Tall Grasses and Red Ants” (2018), Tomoko Kubota
“that death isn’t the end” (2018), Yiyi Zhang
elly kalfus (2018)
Picture the Homeless (2018), Lynn Lewis
Prologue (2018), Carlin Zia
The Record of Sorrows, a Living Memory of Death (2018), Rozanne Gooding Silverwood
An Excerpt from Finding Fathers: An Oral History of Uncertainty (2016), Emma Courtand
Finding Fathers (2016), Emma Courtland
A Radio on One’s Own: The History of ‘Radio Donna’ (Visiting Scholar, 2016), Paola Stelliferi
A Radio on One’s Own: The History of ‘Radio Donna’ (Visiting Scholar, 2016), Paola Stelliferi
Claudia’s Coming Out Story & Finding Love (2016), Steve Fuchs
Coming Out & Finding Love (2016), Steve Fuchs
No Goodbye (2016), Xiaoyan Li
No Goodbye (2016), Xiaoyan Li
Secrets of Giving (2016), Shira Hudson
Secrets of Giving (2016), Shira Hudson
The Reality of Love (2015), Sara Jacobs
The Reality of Love (2015), Sara Jacobs
Home (2015), Meghan Valdes
Home (2015), Meghan Valdes
Memory of a Boy Soldier (2015), Christina Pae
Memory of a Boy Soldier (2015), Christina Pae
Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015), Geraldo Jay Scala
Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015), Geraldo Jay Scala
Between Detroit and Liverpool (2015), Bud Kliment
Between Detroit and Liverpool (2015), Bud Kliment