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Haven Nation 9 – Art and the Nations
Yesterday I spoke with artist Chevas Rolfe about art and its power to communicate across cultures.
I recorded it on Chevas’s Apple laptop because my Minidisk recorder said it had “not enough charge to record.” So nine episodes of Haven Nation so far and no two have been recorded with the exact same equipment.
I love doing interviews, especially live ones. You never know what’s going to happen, so it’s important to let the interviewee know exactly what you’ll be talking about beforehand. That way you’re both on the same page and they’re prepared if any robing questions you might ask. I usually send a list of primary questions a few days before, which is what I did for Chevas.
I decided to script the intro and outro to this episode so I could remember exactly what I wanted to say, explain a little bit about Chevas’s upcoming exhibition United Colors, and plug the Invisible Children documentary without forgetting where I was and having to record all over again. I tried to inflect naturally wherever I could, but I still think I sounds stiff in some places like an NPR radio voice. I want it to sound more casual.
