INGLES' REPORT FOR LIVING ON EARTH WINS NATIONAL MURROW AWARD

Paul Ingles has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for a report he produced last year for National Public Radio's Living on Earth. The piece, entitled New Mexico Sound Artist, profiled a museum exhibit by Albuquerque's Steve Peters (pictured here). Ingles' work was honored in the "Best Use of Sound" category for a nationally distributed piece. The awards are given annually by the Radio/Television News Directors Associaiton (RTNDA).

Peters spent hours recording in an outdoor space in New Mexico called "The Land," taking care to capture sounds of nature that normally escape our attention. He turned his recordings into an exhibit that recreated the soundscape of the land in a museum setting. Ingles interviewed Peters at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe where Peters', "Hereings," was on display. Paul mixed some of Peters' own unique recordings into his report. These included grasshoppers flitting across the soundscape, wind blowing through dead cholla cacti, and the eerie "shrieking" noise made by harvesting ants as they swarmed over a microphone.

"A lot of the credit for the success of the piece goes to Steve. After all, he recorded all the sounds and then did such a nice job of describing his work," says Ingles. "Where I came in, I suppose, was deciding which sounds to use and how to mix them effectively in the piece. I got some good advice from my editor at Living on Earth , Eileen Bolinsky, and the result was a pretty entertaining report made up of only Steve's voice and his unusual nature sounds." The report can be heard in Real Audio by clicking here. A higher quality MP3 can be downloaded by clicking here.

(From the www.rtnda.org website) The Radio-Television News Directors Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow's pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.