audio project ideas

Here's three ideas... I'm presenting them as per Ira's instructions on his videos (the narrative and the big picture):

1. narrative about my experience of having my husband go through four or five electro-convulsive therapy sessions -- a therapy used to treat major depression, and one that causes short-term memory loss. The big picture would be to capture on audio the incredibly disconcerting experience of having to be the person in charge -- having to help someone regain their most basic memories (like our children's names) -- and having to do it alone. In many ways it would be a story about becoming an adult.

2. narrative about a friend's experience beating up his girlfriend while in college. The big picture is to look at how a relatively peaceful person finds himself doing something reprehensible and how he deals with the memory of his actions.

3. narrative of a ghost story... My older brother, two older sisters and myself experienced something akin to a ghost story when we were young. We all have slightly different versions of it now that we are adults -- and we all love to tell the story. I envision having phone conversations with my sisters and brothers and then piecing the conversations together to tell the story - mixing their voices and versions. But I don't know of any technology that I could use to tape phone conversations... Still, I think it would be entertaining. The big picture would be to see how a version of a story changes across time and perspective.