EB Engine Entries September 8, 2019
One of the great things about the EB Engine is that you never know what you’re going to get when you tune in. This is fantastic when you’re trying to use it as a generative workshop prompt. But looking at Endless Beautiful from only that angle reduces the actual sound collection aspect to a means to an end, which is totally not my experience. Sound collection is an enormously rewarding and fun activity for me. There’s a story behind each and every one of these sounds, and I want to share a bit of that magic with you. So from…
Why I’m Excited About the EB Engine
Let me ask you a quick question. What is the connection between the items on this list? Pick Up Sticks Transfer Available for BCD12 Train Slicing Stuff Bella Eating Moving Boston Sci Museum Mini Crane CompuCleaner Sifting Flour I’d be interested in hearing what you came up with. I expect there are many different answers. Your interpretation is very much dependent on the angle that you’re looking at the list and your own experiences leading up to the moment you thought about those words. Let’s take this a step further. Imagine that I have you listen to audio recordings of…
Creative Writing and Google Apps Workshop
Workshop location and time: Carolyn and I will be hosting a one-day Creative Writing and Google Apps workshop at What Cheer Writers Club at 160 Westminster Street in Providence from 10 – 2 pm on August 4th, 2019! This class is part of the Frequency Writers summer catalog. The cost for the workshop is $65. You can register here. What is Endless Beautiful? So if you’re not familiar with what Endless Beautiful is, go to our homepage and hit the play button at the top and listen for a bit! Carolyn and I collect sounds with our audio recording equipment…
EB Radio Livestream
Lucas and Carolyn use EB Radio as the prompt for this livestream. This discussion includes themes ranging from climate change to serial murderers. You never know what you’re going to get during an EB workshop! Remember to submit phone recordings to be played on Endless Beautiful Radio on the website, endlessbeautiful.com. Carolyn’s EB Livestream Result January 13, 2019: We have come to the old cemetery,crayons and paper in hand, scalpels for the lichen,brushes for the grit–so many slate headstones,their skulls and carven wings, so much ash and dust,and four hundred years peace, a baker’s dozen generations of childrencome to wax…
Blacksmith Livestream
Lucas and Carolyn reflect a bit on all of the amazing developments that the listeners and participants of EB helped make happen in 2018 before using Session 38: Blacksmith for this livestream. Lucas writes about the sometimes grueling sacrifices that a parent must make for their children. Carolyn writes about classification and how to better understand the natural world that we live in. It’s a good time! Lucas’s result from 12.30.18 livestream: He poured the small stones into the glass jar. It was nearly full. The weight of it had been growing heavier over the past two hours, but the…
Snow Livestream
We use Session 52: Snow for this workshop. Carolyn writes a piece of fiction that questions inspiration, imagination, and dreams. Lucas writes a story about a not-so-distant future where virtual reality provides the ultimate escape. What will be the consequences for our society when this happens? Also, send your recordings to add to the new EB Radio station on our website! Carolyn’s Result: The hatchway door opens. Cool air rushes in sudden and stale, displacing the swelter of the underground. From inside the tunnel, the engine whirs. The guide lights flicker on in succession. Spray jets coat the opening with ice, and…
Endless Beautiful Radio
Endless Beautiful has a 24/7 radio station! It’s easy, just go to our website, and the player is right there on the top–hit play, and boom! you will be transported into a new world of sound. You can use this to relax, stretch your imagination, do something weird, do something creative, or whatever else you want. Anytime you want. You can tune in by going to our homepage. Update 12/24/18: You can contribute to the EB Radio Station now! Just click the button below the player on homepage to submit your own audio.
Gift Livestream
We use Session 73: Gift for this workshop. Watch and listen as Carolyn shares her powerful story of being in the Women’s March in Boston. Lucas shares a crazy story about being at a Slayer concert. The discussion then turns to ideas of liberty in America and what that means in 2018. We have the video and audio versions of the livestream below. Carolyn’s piece from the 12/9/18 livestream: We make noise–we holler, we jointhe ruckus and the rumble, the jostlingshoulder-to-shoulder, knee-to-kneeof the gathering, we cheer,our voices singing the steam whistle,the rally of the island ferry pullinginto harbor. We ring out…
A Gift for All of Us
I grew up in a rural area of central Wisconsin called City Point. There’s no town there–just a bar, a small Lutheran church, a railroad crossing, a billboard advertising gasoline and a casino 30 miles up the road. If you drive down one of the quiet country roads where most of the residents live in their scattered homes, you will definitely see a lot of woods, probably spot a cranberry marsh, and if you are lucky, cross paths with a bald eagle feeding on a deer carcass on the side of the road. It’s been difficult for my parents to…
Jar of Treasures Livestream
We chose Session 43: Jar of Treasures for this workshop. Watch and listen as Lucas pens a story about a mysterious man and his journey around the country. Carolyn writes a poem about the importance of creating and maintaining shelter…and knowing when to leave it. We have the video and audio versions of the livestream below. Lucas’s Result He didn’t know what he had been walking for anymore. The soles of his shoes were worn out. His jeans were shredded at the bottoms. His neck had been sunburned so many times and had peeled so massively, it was thick like the…