PHONOGRAPHY: Writing In Sound

A combination of audio stories and films by Ryan Scammell.

Episodes

The Horologist

September 17, 2017 • 3 mins

A man obsessed with time builds a house that's a giant clock.

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IMMUNE!

December 10, 2015 • 4 mins

Finally you can watch the entirety of "IMMUNE!" now released in all 4 parts (plus a prologue) at:

www.immunethefilm.com

Part fiction, part narrative, part superhero origin story (kinda), part personal narrative, part graphic novel, the film takes a deep look at the reasons we all might want to believe in superheroes, and the dangerous places we end up as we get lost in the world of fantasy.

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BeepBall

October 30, 2012 • 8 mins

Blind people playing baseball? Yeah. That's right. All you need is a ball that beeps.

(photo credit: "baseball" by theseanster93 via flickr creative commons)

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Go Do by Jonsi

September 1, 2011 • 3 mins

As a small change of pace from the rest of the podcast, here's a short music video I put together made entirely out of letters.

The video was created for a two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of a live show I was doing alongside comedian and performance artist Ryan Good. Initially the video was meant to serve as a background element to a moveme...

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Door Belle

August 24, 2011 • 4 mins

The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You In My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title field wouldn't fit it. But now that you know that, I mean, c'mon, aren't you curious....?

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Beneath the Surface (ENHANCED)

April 2, 2009 • 37 mins

Because this is a much longer piece than I normally produce, and because in writing it, it naturally broke down into seven distinct parts, I wanted to give the listener the option of listening to the piece as a whole or to each section individually. So I created an enhanced podcast, which allows you to interact with it the same way you do a CD. You can jump forward to the next track or back to one you want to hear again. Also eac...

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Beneath the Surface

March 30, 2009 • 37 mins

This project started because I was interested in the hundreds of towns around America that have been evacuated and then purposely flooded in order to make reservoirs. In many cases, the streets, the buildings, still exist underwater. When droughts happen, these town resurface and the people who lived in these towns often come back to see what’s left of their old homes. To me, this was a very powerful image. I saw it as such a pe...

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A Lesson in Social Confusion: Or How I Essentially Became a Street Kabuki Performer Entirely By Accident

January 31, 2009 • 3 mins

I mean, seriously... The piece is 3 1/2 minutes. With a title like that, do I really have to write a description to convince you to listen to it? (Non-fiction?)

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Stories of Lost and Found #4: Through the Window and Across the Street

January 5, 2009 • 5 mins

Ryan Scammell finds some pages from a young girls' diary (?) in the closet in his apartment building. He reads us something she had written about the deaf man who lived across the street from her and what happened when she finally tried to talk to him. (Fiction)

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Stories of Lost and Found #2: A Phone Conversation

December 20, 2008 • 6 mins

When a woman finds the wind-chimes she made in 8th grade shop class, she calls an old friend to talk about the thing they did and why she still can't forgive herself. If you're interested, please visit the website for information about the origins of this piece.

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How To Be A Man...(sort of)

November 28, 2008 • 9 mins

As a special Thanksgiving episode, this is a story about fathers, sons, the woods, and the never-ending quest to figure out what it means to be a man. (Non-fiction)

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Stories of Lost and Found #3: The Letters

November 21, 2008 • 3 mins

One of a series of short-short pieces about things lost and things found. A couple receives a letter from a friend who has been dead for almost a year. (Fiction)

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And I Have No Idea What Happened To Him After That

July 7, 2008 • 12 mins

We like to believe that we have control on our lives. That we can sculpt perfect moments around us. That if we put ourselves in the right setting with the right people everything can be everything we want it to be. A few weeks ago, two of my best friends, Nell and Pete, came in from out of town for what started as a perfect weekend. But as the weekend got closer to the end, and as we tried to hold on to that perfect moment, thin...

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One Reason When Visiting Sacred Sites It's Important To Remember That You Are Not An Aboriginal But Grew Up In The Suburbs

May 29, 2008 • 7 mins

Or: How not to commune with foreign cultures. -- I lived in Australia for seven months in 2003 and 2004, almost half of which I spent travelling in a car with my friend Dave and a german girl named Susanne. This is a story about an experience I had at a beautiful place in Litchfield National Park called The Buley Rock Pools. That's actually a picture of Dave at the Buley Rock Pools to the right. This piece was originally publish...

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The Rabbi

April 17, 2008 • 6 mins

What it means to be 20 years old. (Non-fiction)

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A Length of Time is Measured By the Space Between 2 Hands

March 15, 2008 • 11 mins

This is not a radio piece. It's actually the last film that I made. (Which means if you don't have a video ipod you may want to watch this online at ryanscammell.com) For the last two years, it's been sitting in a drawer being watched only by dust-bunnies. For some reason, though I spent about half a year working on it, I showed to almost no one after I completed it. I watched it again last night and was surprised by how much I lik...

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The Other

September 29, 2007 • 12 mins

There's a million ways to fall in love, and a million ways to fall apart. Sometimes all it takes is an email. (Non-fiction)

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It's Just A Matter of Time

August 27, 2007 • 13 mins

Liza Minnelli is downing red wine in her tour bus. The stagehands all together look like a Judas Priest cover band. Coney Island is a Ferris Wheel slowing to a stop. Andy Warhol! Incubated babies! Lawsuits! Lions in flames! It all comes together at a Liza concert in 2005. (Non-fiction)

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PHONOGRAPHY: Writing In Sound

Episodes

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BeepBall

Go Do by Jonsi

Door Belle

Beneath the Surface (ENHANCED)

Beneath the Surface

A Lesson in Social Confusion: Or How I Essentially Became a Street Kabuki Performer Entirely By Accident

Stories of Lost and Found #4: Through the Window and Across the Street

Stories of Lost and Found #2: A Phone Conversation

How To Be A Man...(sort of)

Stories of Lost and Found #3: The Letters

And I Have No Idea What Happened To Him After That

One Reason When Visiting Sacred Sites It's Important To Remember That You Are Not An Aboriginal But Grew Up In The Suburbs

The Rabbi

A Length of Time is Measured By the Space Between 2 Hands

The Other

It's Just A Matter of Time

Popular Podcasts

The Horologist

IMMUNE!