Here Hear, a pop-up Radio Project
Hear Here was a project of KALW 91.7FM Local Public Radio, designed to illuminate life in Oakland and San Francisco. Over 12 months, I interviewed people in public libraries, community gardens, in local businesses and on the street, asking locals to tell stories about their lives in these cities – projects, relationships, and passions.
The Youth Movement Podcast
The Youth Movement Podcast features young artists and changemakers in San Francisco. I led a team of a dozen youth producers, helping them apply for funding, explore topics, discover their own voices, write scripts, track sessions, and edit and mix the audio. The show focuses on themes that matter to young people living in San Francisco: Bay Area arts & culture, their neighborhoods, their education, and other young people who are actively following their dreams.
Congratulations Pine Tree Episode 131 - The Great Outdoors (with Alicia Escott)
I contributed this story to Congratulations Pine Tree Podcast about artist Alicia Escott’s art, which focuses on the ecology of the Outer Sunset of San Francisco.
KPFA, 94.1FM
For International Women’s Day, I produced an hour-long radio show for broadcast on KPFA featuring the young women I work with at Upstar Records, a project of Sunset Youth Services. I managed script-writing, talent coaching, tracking audio, mixing, editing, and distributing content.
Noodle Mania Stories
I’ve produced dozens of stories that helped amplify, document, and uncover the voices, experiences, and histories of San Francisco artists. This audio is shared during live art parties, in which participants create visuals while listening to the stories. Those drawings and the transcribed stories are published in Noodle Mania zine.
What inspired your art piece, "Metamorphosis?"
Angela Summers is a community-based artist who creates artwork exploring color and vibrant female forms using paint and collage. Angela tells the story of an imagined life that inspired her piece "Metamorphosis," which was on Exhibit in Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts. Recorded and mixed for Noodle Mania June 2018. Original music by Matt Hairfield.
What's your mother like?
Camilo Villa is a queer Colombian artist who utilizes his creative practice as a visibility platform. His love for craft and performance intersect in order to create symbolic narratives that encourage conversation about the role of art within social justice. In this story, he talks about the wonderful woman who made him. Recorded in Oakland in September 2018 for Noodle Mania. Music by Bark Leafgood. Artwork by Julie Crossman.
What have you learned by making art?
Guta Galli is a Brazilian transmedia artist working with photography, video, installation and performance art. Her work examines the intersections between womanhood, power, race, sexuality and violence. In this story, Guta describes her experience with performance art during an exhibit at RootDivision. Recorded for Noodle Mania in August 2018. Original music by Bark Leafgood. Artwork by Todd Berman.
Can you describe a time when you experienced the feeling of unlimited opportunity?
Pat Mesiti-Miller, Audio Producer and Sound Designer, explains the impact meditation and lucid dreaming has had on his life. Recorded in May 2015 for Megapolis Audio Festival and Noodle Mania. Artwork by Andrew Goldfarb.
What is unusual about your job?
Someguy, also known as Brian Singer, is a San Francisco artist who created “There’s No Place Like” that explores what constitutes a home and what it means to live without one. Noodle Mania visited his studio in the Pacific Felt Factory and asked him to share a story about making art. Recorded and mixed for Noodle Mania in February 2018. Original music by Bark Leafgood.
Do you have fond summer memories?
Clarissa Ko is a Dancer, Choreographer, and founder of Five Feet Dance and Edge resident at CounterPulse. Her residency is focused on ancestry, culture, and change, honoring the Asian American experiences that our media and documentation of history have overlooked. Her story conjures memories from her home in America and her home in Hong Kong. Recorded for Noodle Mania in March 2018.
Do you have a classic Tenderloin story?
Dorian Dorey is a Poet & artivist with Faithful Fools. Dorian is highly involved in art and activism, advocating for the people and places in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. Dorian remembers a moment that captures what it's like to live in the Tenderloin. Interviewed for Noodle Mania in March 2018. Original music by Bark Leafgood.
Have you ever had to stand up for yourself?
Zerena Diaz is a visual + multimedia artist imagining and exploring queer ancestory, a pansexual gender non-conforming future, and anthropomorphic gender-queer beings. In this story, she recalls confronting a male who crossed a boundary and how she tried to get men to understand consent. Interviewed for Noodle Mania in March 2018.
How did you end up in San Francisco?
Corey Curtis is an artist who makes watercolor art at Hospitality House. I met him at an art opening where he told me about walking thousands of miles on foot. I returned to the studio to sit and ask him more about his journeys. Corey has walked all around California, up to Seattle and down to LA, with many adventures along the way. Recorded and mixed for Noodle Mania June 2018. Original music by Bark Leafgood. Artwork by Rebecca Au.
How is your life different now than you had imagined?
Cameron Kim is an artist living in the Tenderloin. For many years, he slept on the streets, oftentimes in dark alleys against buildings. One building he slept against was the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Years later, after an important encounter, he was inside that building, showing his work in a group art exhibit. In this story, he tells about that encounter and how it changed his life. Interviewed for Noodle Mania in June 2018. Original music by Bark Leafgood.
How did you first use the Internet?
Julie Herndon is a composer, performer, and sound artist based in California. Her work explores the body’s relationship to sound using tools like musical instruments and personal technologies. Julie explains her early days using the internet and how that led to crossing a boundary into unlimited exploration. Recorded in May 2015 for Megapolis Audio Festival and Noodle Mania.
Do you have any fond summer memories?
Alice Cooper is a horror-con artist. He does paintings and latchhook of horror icons. This story is about how growing up different was really hard and how he overcame the pain in his past to embrace and accept himself.