When my dad died in 1988, I found a box of his ¼” recordings in the back of his closet. In December of 1995, I archived the tapes and discovered that many of them contained Dad's trumpet playing. I decided to create a CD of these recordings and called it “Redlands”.  It became my Christmas gift to my family that year. I recorded Mom's narration using my DAT Walkman and  I used some primitive sound editing software to put the tracks together. Mom and I were so excited to share the CD with everyone after Christmas dinner. I thinks that's what I remember most fondly --- how excited Mom and I were to share our creation.

The Early Years

This is a sound piece that I did in 2013 that featured my ex-husband Mark Stambler and his quest to pass the California Food Bill AB1616. He did it! I'd like to do more pieces in this series. This was done as an assignment for a policy class that I took while in graduate school at USC.

Everyday Activism: Mark Stambler/Master Bread Baker

I created this audio piece in 1995. It's the story of how my parents met. The piece is narrated my my mother Katheryn Stenehjem. The trumpet solo, heard at the end of the track is from an original recording of my father Jerome Stenehjem performing "I Can't Get Started with You".
I hope you enjoy it.
D.D. Stenehjem

D.d. Stenehjem