Audio Recommendation: Every Car Has a Story

[kylaraingress]

“Every car has a story,” says John Cruz, General Manager at Pick Your Part in Wilmington. The noise that accompanies his job at a car crushing facility is just part of the chaos and commotion. “I kind of like the chaos,” he says.

 

What good is having an audio recommendation section without recommending some of my own work? ;-)

 

"Every Car Has a Story" is a piece I did for KCRW’s “SoundsLA” project. The point of the project was to produce short (one minute) non-narrated pieces (i.e., you never hear my voice explaining what’s going on) that took an unusual sound in and around Los Angeles and tell a story. 

This was a lot more difficult than it sounds. As with writing prose/non-fiction, doing a short audio takes much more time than going longer. I think I had a total of 15 minutes worth of audio from this guy and I had to pick 30 - 45 seconds of it. 

 

Additionally, doing non-narrated is also much harder than doing narrated. In my other piece I’ve done for KRCW (which will be a future audio recommendation), I produced both a narrated and non-narrated version. Narrated versions let you do shortcuts in a way, because if you don’t get the right audio that explains the story, you can chime in and fix it. Non-narrated, on the other hand, means you have to solely rely on the person (or people) you’re interviewing to tell the whole story. 

Hope you enjoy!