School of Song with Robin Pecknold

Week 1

Compose a song from fragments.

Just Wait Here

School of Song with Robin Pecknold

Week 2

Write a song with multiple modes.

School of Song

Waterstrider

School of Song with Robin Pecknold

Week 3

Write a song influenced by the theme of one song, the mood of another song, and the instrumentation of another song.

Foundry Days

If We Can't Get Home

An LA song inspired by Joni Mitchell and Laurel Canyon

Do You Even See Me?

In Galway I stayed with a mystic named John.  Here's the mostly Eastern European improvisation I played for him. I didn't know he had a microphone on, but I'm glad he did.

photo by Roger Kim, minds eye by Maren Preston

Galway improvisation

Suzanne (cover)

Postcards from Hell (cover)

Alan W. Hollie is a BART operator. But he says he feels more like a ground astronaut.

Produced and engineered by Eli Wirtschafter, with editing from Julie Caine.

A longer version of this piece aired as a part of KALW's Audiograph series.
http://kalw.org/post/audiographs-sound-week-bart-operator

The Ground Astronaut

My first NPR news spot! 5/1/17
For fuller coverage: ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/01/sa…to-settle-lawsuit/

NPR spot Airbnb settlement

I do radio stories and write songs.
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