Meet This Member: AIR Producer Spotlight
“Meet this Member!,” is an interview series that spotlights AIRsters doing outstanding work in the audio and media industry.
This week we feature radio producer, sound designer, and health reporter, Alexander Charles Adams.
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1) Where are you based and what do you do?
I’m based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (yeehaw? YEEHAW!). I am a queer/non-binary radio producer, sound designer, and health reporter.
2) A piece of yours (in any medium!) that you would like to share? (And why?)
This piece for Tales of Your City’s companion podcast was a behemoth to produce. I had four weeks to make it, a whole lot of personal shit going on, and a big fear of making something non-fiction and long-form. I had just done my first short reporting features after years of making audio fiction and sound designing. But the piece — The Big Hard — let me grow into documentary production with a lot of support from my fiction background. (Ann, who I mention later, was a stunning editor on this piece)
3) What draws you to storytelling?
Stories make connections between data. This is true for most everything I know. Understanding stories, and aspiring to make them stronger, gives you an advantage on unknown or unfamiliar ground. You assemble a toolbox for deciphering the world around you. // this is a very hard question to answer, i think challenging yourself to make good stories makes you a stronger person, that’s what i’m saying here. lol.
4) What’s playing on your radio/audio streaming service right now?
The Read, The Read, The Read.
5) What’s the most underrated tool (technical or not!) you use in your creative practice?
Thinking critically about sequence and duration—in radio art and in journalism. How long are certain people speaking? Who do we hear from first? Last? What is in your story just at the edges—in the smallest moments—but decidedly not absent? Let’s get into that, Linda.