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Playlist: Pieces that inspire me

Compiled By: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs

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Whenever I'm learning a new skill, I seek inspiration and models. Here are pieces that ignite my creativity and give me guidance.

The Decisions Project (Series)

Produced by Aengus Anderson

Most recent piece in this series:

The Decisions Project - 29 - Asking for Help

From Aengus Anderson | Part of the The Decisions Project series | 05:31

Cover_small During the summer of 2010, producer Aengus Anderson rode his motorcycle around North America and interviewed 220 people about the hardest decisions they had ever made. A cross-section of their conversations are presented here as The Decisions Project.

Vidal Sassoon: Inspired by Architecture

From Sarah Lilley | 03:31

In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and intimacy.

Mary_quant_small In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and intimacy.

Short List #4

From David Green | Part of the Short Lists series | :48

A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure out what werewolves, computers and dresses have in common before you are told at the end?

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Short List #4
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As part of a two week, all-school (K-12) Poetry Festival at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL, Third Grade Audio produced our first “Short Lists” for one of the poetry assemblies. We continue to write and record new short lists each year.

We first learned about Short Lists from producer Jay Allison during his keynote speech at the 2007 Third Coast International Audio Festival Conference.

What is a Short List? “It's a list you create from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell us at the end what the list WAS." (transom.org)

Here at Third Grade Audio, we think of them as a combination of a list poem and a riddle. We wrote Short Lists of all kinds and then took some of our favorite topics written by individual third graders and created group Short Lists – writing, recording and producing them jointly. We played them for an audience of roughly five-hundred people during the Poetry Festival.

Each Spring, a new set of third graders adds to our Short List series. 

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The Okie Dish (Series)

Produced by This Land Press

Most recent piece in this series:

Voices from Pie Town

From Aengus Anderson | 06:30

Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie aficionados from across the Southwest. But the festival is about more than celebrating good pie, it is about a rural community struggling to raise money for basic social services. It is also about visitors from distant cities, people who feel a lack of community in their own lives and attempt to find it, if only for a weekend, in Pie Town.

Pie_small Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie aficionados from across the Southwest. But the festival is about more than celebrating good pie, it is about a rural community struggling to raise money for basic social services. It is also about visitors from distant cities, people who feel a lack of community in their own lives and attempt to find it, if only for a weekend, in Pie Town.