The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
https://transom.org/topics/sound-school/
Revisiting: Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
Summer means cicadas. Those crackly, buzzy bugs that drone and drone in the heat like a live electrical wire spewing sparks. Mair Bosworth and Fiona Benson took that sound and crafted "Magicicada," a stunning "sound poem," as they called it, marrying Mair's stellar recordings and sound design and Fiona's nuanced poetry.