This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism: Leah (1814–1890), Margaretta (also called Maggie) (1833–1893) and Catherine (also called Kate ) Fox (1837–1892).[1] The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits…

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial…

Gef (/ˈdʒɛf/ JEF), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was the name given to an allegedly talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid pres…

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"Real life is a hashtag we’re nostalgic to remember." This piece is audio from a film (soon to be released) and was originally produced for Earlid as part of their 2019 Liminal Sounds exhibit Retreat, Disappearance. It was produced by Lily Sloane and Garrett Tiedemann.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This piece was produced, mixed, and scored by Lily Sloane from the podcast A Therapist Walks Into A Bar. Find all her brilliance at http://www.lilymakessound.com/.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

Audio from a film. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/292243431 Features new music from John Barner. Stream and buy the record here: https://americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/album/darker-places I used to dream satisfaction in quiet commerce. Past experiences made new. Wandering the aisles - no one there. Belief a strange buzz - energy left over fr…

Erasure is violence. Ever, always, being justified: “The director said she made the changes so as ‘not [to] show them.'” Sun Yung Shin is the voice in the piece. She is a writer and educator living in Minneapolis where she co-directs the community organization Poetry Asylum with poet Su Hwang. When The Beguiled was released in 2017, she was part of…

This piece was produced, mixed, and scored by Lily Sloane from the podcast A Therapist Walks Into A Bar. Find all her brilliance at http://www.lilymakessound.com/.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

end·ing ˈendiNG/ noun an end or final part of something, especially a period of time More the furthest part or point of something. "a nerve ending"By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

twaNG/ 1. a strong ringing sound such as that made by the plucked string of a musical instrument or a released bowstring. make or causeBy CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

op·tics ˈäptiks/ properties of transmission and deflection. 2. the way in which an event or course of action is perceived by the public. "the issue itself is secondary"By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

post·script ˈpōs(t)ˌskript/ noun an additional remark at the end of a letter, after the signature and introduced by “P.S.”. “Leaving tomorrow.”By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

hōp/ 1.a feeling. archaic "he looked through her belongings" on, want; MoreBy CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

or·i·gin ˈôrəjən/ noun 1. the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

Blank slate" redirects here. For other uses, (disambiguation). Part of a series Tabula rasa (/ˈtæbjələ ˈrɑːsə, -zə, ˈreɪ-/) In Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experien…

re·veal rəˈvēl/ verb past tense: revealed; past participle: revealed make (previously unknown cause or allow (something) seen. literaryuncloakBy CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This Offbeat episode was produced for the KCRW 2017 Radio Race. The theme was Down With Whatever and included a special bonus clip of David Bowie performing for special consideration. Everything had to be recorded and mixed within 24-hours.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

America is less. Resist.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

Part of this year's more diversified Academy Award nominations, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan have been nominated for Best Sound Editing for La LA Land; becoming the first all-female team nominated in the category (Ai-Ling is also nominated for Best Sound Mixing along with Andy Nelson and Steve A. Morrow). As sound supervisors and designers…

Caly McMorrow is an interactive art and sound artist based in St. Paul Minnesota. Immediately after the 2016 presidential election she participated in social media catharsis by covering a well referenced Leonard Cohen song and sharing it for those who it may benefit. In this episode she talks about the post and her continued efforts to unify and co…

The phone keeps ringing. This piece was produced for the 2016 Very, Very, Short, Short Stories contest and was inspired by the rules of CLIFFORD THOMPSON Dialogue: "Do one thing for a person, and he think he owes you; do everything for a person, and he thinks you owe him." Sound: Cicadas whirring Narrative: The action takes place during the hottest…

In a small shop they gather, knowingly submitting to the last breaths of suffocation, exsanguination, and repose in a world torn by snow flakes. This piece was produced for the 2016 Very, Very, Short, Short Stories contest and was inspired by the rules of CAROL ZOREF: Dialogue: "The animals kept arriving." Sound: Knives being sharpened. Narrative: …

"The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on."By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking..."By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid."By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"Getting lost is the best way to find something."By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art."By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

Certain that she had made a good painting at last, she pedaled home from the studio in the moonlight, fervent and giddy with glee.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

The curtain rises on "[a] late evening in the future." Lit by the white light above a desk. Black-and-white imagery continues throughout. On the desk are a tape-recorder and a number of tins containing reels of recorded tape. A man consults a ledger. The tape he is looking to review is the fifth tape in Box 3. He reads aloud from the ledger but it …

In 2015 Don Chambers hosted "a music and other things entertainment" each month called The Last Thursday. Each month had its own theme and governed not only the types of content, but way of presentation for the evening. These evenings lived and died in the moment with very little social media promotion or archiving. In the second series of The Whit…

This piece was produced by The White Whale as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Features the voice of Don Chambers, a musician from Athens, GA. For more information on his work visit http://www.donchambersmusic.com/By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

"We were lied to." This short audio work was produced for the 2016 #ShortDocs competition held by the Third Coast International Audio Festival. This piece was inspired by the "film noir" mini-movie produced by Manual Cinema. In addition to original music by Garrett D. Tiedemann there are music tracks by Manual Cinema within the mix as required by t…

Heather McIntosh talks about her upbringing and what choices brought her to work on the films Z for Zachariah and Compliance, cornerstones of her evolution and increasing prominence in the musical communities she lives. This piece was produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Music was by Heather McIntosh and Garrett D. Tiedemann. To learn more about Heath…

Brian Reitzell talks about his work on the show Hannibal and what went into the 3rd and (as of now) final season. Find his music for seasons 1-3 wherever you buy and listen to music. This piece was produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Music was by Garrett D. Tiedemann and This Line. To hear more from This Line visit American Residue Records: https://a…

Paul Fonfara is a local legend of the Minneapolis music scene, having developed the band Painted Saints and playing with bands like Dreamland Faces and Brass Messengers. This after long travels with Devotchka and Jim White on his way to the current musical travelogue. Shifting more to a film composer role he received a grant to develop a record and…

What is Alpha-1? was originally produced in the Spring of 2015 for the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs Challenge. The story was trying to provide a small glimpse at the personal experience of the disease, which is still widely unknown to the masses. It is being released via The White Whale in prep for a collaborative episode with…

"Waiting for Charon" was produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann for The Sarahs' Very Very Short, Short Stories Contest. The challenge was to create a 2-3 minute audio fiction piece inspired by one of 3 sentences. This piece was inspired by Mary Morris' sentence: “The Gem sisters slept in the order in which they were born.” It was mixed, edited, and score…

This episode of The White Whale is the end of season 1. We say goodbye to Y?kai and go brave into the future. Covering the final films - Funay?rei 4 and 5 we see a full circle narrative arise from the combination of fifteen films.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale is Funay?rei 3. Longest of the series at almost ten minutes. The film had a few stages of completion as it worked to become an extensive excavation of the life of bees and coordinates the narrative carried from the second through the third.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale covers Funay?rei 2. Continuing the painterly approaches to image combination, this film also devolves into some of the most abstraction of the entire series with an ending that reframes the whole.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale is Funay?rei 1. A new series with more painterly techniques. This video also happens upon current events and attempts to present a certain consideration of the moment.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale finishes Hikikomori with conversation of rearranging how one experiences material as a byproduct of work being achieved successfully after stepping away when there was nothing to be done.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale shifts from the frame breakage of Hikikomori 5 to the exterior envisaged by Hikikomori 1. A larger idea embodied by numerous in this trilogy - close proximity of personal interior with moments that push away.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale tackles the fifth film of Hikikomori extensively before getting off track for the slightest of moments.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

This episode of The White Whale dives into the films of Hikikomori and doesn't get past the third video, which is actually the first video. Confused? We explain. Just listen to the podcast.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records

Sounds of Harlem in 1968. The story of one woman's experience during a time of great musical evolution. This piece was produced by Garrett Tiedemann and The White Whale as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project.By CyNar Pictures/American Residue Records