The Shadows : End
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The love story underneath the love story. We finally meet the real-life Charlie Park. Audio artist and friend Brendan Baker: the sound genius who inspired and supported KP to be the artist she is today. Real moments from the real relationship that started it all.
If you are an artist or a writer interested in the complicated journey of translating real life into a fictional universe, this one is for you. If you are a regular human being interested in how love is born and grows and changes over the course of decades, this one is for you. We start with a full length audio doc about all of that.
And then: the end of a romance. The anatomy of a breakup. The final chapter of “The Shadows”.
This is the 6th episode of The Shadows, from CBC Podcasts. Made by Kaitlin Prest with production and co-writing from Phoebe Wang, editing by Sharon Mashihi, and associate production by Yasmine Mathurin. Cameos from Greg, Nancy, and Natalie Prest, Eliot Feenstra, Ian Field Stewart Raven Castle and the residency SMT.
You hear Brendan Baker’s award-winning creations from the Love+Radio era. He is an audio fiction director, composer, and installation artist specializing in spatial audio and ambisonics currently scanning the horizon for his next big creative project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Hart listeners, I want to tell you about a new mini series from Benjamin Walker's theory of everything. |
| 0:07.0 | It's called Not All Propaganda is Art. |
| 0:10.0 | Back in the 1950s, spy agencies like the CIA use writers and artists to fight a cultural |
| 0:16.7 | Cold War. Three writers got caught up in this war as collaborators and its targets. |
| 0:23.6 | The propaganda from this time period didn't just win the Cold War, it made the world we live in today. |
| 0:30.2 | Not all propaganda is art is running on the Theory of Everything |
| 0:33.4 | podcast with weekly episodes. |
| 0:35.9 | Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:38.8 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome. |
| 0:44.0 | To the heart, I'm Caitlin Pressed. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the last episode of the Shadows. |
| 0:57.0 | If you're just coming in now, go back to the episode called Romantic and start there. |
| 1:03.0 | Before I play each episode I've been spending a little bit of time letting you in on the story underneath, |
| 1:09.0 | the story, the people, and the relationships that helped me make this project with the |
| 1:15.0 | CBC back in 2018. On this episode I introduce you to Brendan Baker, but first we go back in time. It's 2010. |
| 1:47.6 | 2010. I've just moved to New York. I'm 24 years old and I've fallen hard for an extremely obscure creative medium that I believe will soon be recognized by the world as high art. |
| 1:55.0 | I believe that one day soon it will appear in the New York Times Art |
| 1:58.7 | section under its own heading right beside dance and theater and literature. I believe that people who use |
| 2:10.0 | this extremely obscure creative medium should be called artists. |
| 2:17.1 | The Caitlin pressed in the world of the shadows feels this way about puppetry. |
| 2:24.0 | The Caitlin Prest, who is 24 and just moved to New York, |
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