I have a long history of doing audio in a variety of contexts, including fiction and documentary production (both film and video), audio tours, and audio journalism. I’ve written and/or sound designed audio projects for clients such as Audible, Spotify, APM, Higher Ground, The Los Angeles Times, MOCA, Detour, and the Getty Museum. I have a small home studio and a field kit that includes a full array of microphone options.
Valley of Smoke is an audio documentary series available as a podcast, which I created and produce. It seeks to take local stories from Southern California and contextualize and re-mix them in a way that they become audio essays about bigger subjects and wider histories.
Here is one of my favorite episodes so far, combining career histories of aerialists, adjunct art professors, and musicians with the history of California's contributions to shaping health care in the US. Plus: robots have already won.
75 mins, 2016.
What begins as an audio postcard on a 48 hour business trip to Stockholm, quickly becomes a struggle with basic perception of time. 7 mins, 2012.
"The Squeaky Wheelchair Gets the Grease"
Reported by Alex MacInnis, Produced by Brian Reed in 2010 for This American Life episode 415 "Crybabies".
The entire episode available here. (This act starts around minute 33.)
My summer project for 2020 was producing a one-hour special for KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center, editing together interviews with 7 different people across the political spectrum, recorded at various times over a year or more. It turned into a look at the craziness of the first half of 2020, as seen from multiple vantage points.
A strangely communal project to be doing without ever leaving my house, but one that felt fairly cathartic for a summer in quarantine.