The Benjy Section presents an audio profile of Charlie Prewitt, whose experience working as a chemist on the Manhattan Project inspired him to dedicate his life to the pursuit of peace. Prewitt was a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT, and a lifelong activist. He passed away on January 8, 2021, at the age of 102.
The profile was produced in 2009 by Jeffrey Benvenuti as part of the “Art of Audio Narrative” course at the University of Connecticut.
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The Benjy Section presents four audio narratives produced as part of “The Art of Audio Narrative” course at Quinnipiac University. These pieces were written, performed, and produced by the authors.
Party Blues, by Maya Mascoll
My Summer on the Call Floor, by Gaby D’Annunzio
Pareidolia, by Michael Fernandez
Too Many, by Nina Leopold
Music Credits: “Some Catalan Mysteries” by Redeemin’, “Signal,” by Jincheng Zhang.
Music between stories by Ken Cormier.
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Four audio fiction stories produced as part of “The Art of Audio Narrative” course at Quinnipiac University. These were written, performed, and produced by students at their homes, after the campus was closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In their own way, all of these pieces address the difficulties of confinement associated with this strange time in our lives. Some are funny, others are disturbing, but they will all strike a chord for those listening in their own places of quarantine.
Quarantine Careers: Voiceover Edition, by Tess Adams (explicit)
A Sleepless Dream, by Liam Sheehan
Just the Essentials, by Casey Urso
Quarantined, by Maggie Smith
The sound between the stories is from “Our Friend Jerry” by Bobby Cormier.
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“My Mind,” a song by John P. Burke, “We Are Not Responsible,” a poem by Harryette Mullen (recorded at Soul Mountain, East Haddam, CT, July 2007), “Never,” a song by Ken Cormier.
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“Drowning Dogs,” a short story by Joan Joffe Hall, recorded at her home in 2006.
Song: “Kill That Fly,” by Psychedeladelphia (from The Blister Pack)
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“The Spirit of the Wall Fan Taps the Side of the House Like a Cane,” “Photographs of Pills,” and “Baby Shampoo,” by Bobby Cormier
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Three Auto Compositions (“I Ran a Red Light,” “Digging Up a Clam,” “Gabe Kaplan”) & background music by Ken Cormier
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“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier
Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)
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