The Big Shed Podcast is Back!
Welcome back to where it all started.

Five years ago, the Big Shed Audio Documentary Podcast was born--creating what one producer describes as "a podcast paradise for independent audio documentarians."

After a hiatus, we're back! With more good voices, good stories, and mucho more good sounds produced by audio up-and-comers and veterans alike.

We're super excited to once again be podcasting the Big Shed brand of playful, personal, intimate, fresh work directly to your computer. If you haven't caught it yet, we kicked things off with the second installation of "Shortwaveology" from producer David Goren. It's a beautiful audio experience, and we're proud to be presenting it.

Missed us? You will be tickled silly when a new podcast arrives in your iTunes.
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Check out our back catalogue. It's an amazing gallery of 60+ pieces from 40+ producers we consider part of the Big Shed family.

Subscribe, tune in, and hold onto your audio hats!

Your lovin' curators,
Shea, Jen + Jesse = Big Shed

Poop + Memory
The Poop + Memory Project is hitting the road, again. This time, we're headed for the Megapolis Audio Festival in Baltimore in April 2010!

This playful art project came about as a spontaneous burst of giddy genius as we were tossing around ideas for a sound installation at The Bridge PAI, in Charlottesville, VA ... well, in the bathroom at The Bridge.

For the third year in a row, we were installing audio art for captive audiences as part of The Bridge's annual Audio Month. Why we had never thought of using bathroom-related stories before, we could not fathom. And we couldn't resist, either = www.PoopAndMemory.org

This project is also an homage to The Place + Memory Project. And like that project, it's all about you getting involved! So we encourage you to look, listen, and leave your own story (888-921-4224).

The Place + Memory Project:
Square Dancing with Big Shed

It's square dancing season in the Big Shed. We're crossing the country bringing you – a massive, choreographed, storytelling fandango. It's not actually dancing ... but it's about as much fun.

Our next dance will be in Baltimore, MD, at the Megapolis Audio Festival in May. Our first square dance in Charlottesville, VA, in March was such a smashing success, we can't wait to do it again. This is part of The Place + Memory Project.

We've figured out a way to get dozens of people simultaneously telling stories about places from their past that meant so much to them. And before each event is over, we collectively create an audio landscape of the remembered places for posterity. And all the while, getting to know all folks from your community in a whole new way.

This is all part of the second phase of The Place + Memory Project. We're working hard to find new and exciting ways to remember the places that shaped shaped local communities.

Last year we launched The Place + Memory Project to celebrate places we love that no longer exist.

We created a series of stories for National Public Radio along with The Place + Memory website where visitors have added hundreds of locations, adding their own audio, video, photo, and written memories to document the high school hangouts, awesome restaurants, family-run businesses, one-of-a-kind bars, magical parks, and other places that are gone, but not forgotten.

This project was created as part of the Public Radio Makers Quest 2.0, an initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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