Seasoned audio professional, expert the craft of production.
Aaron produces, records, edits, sound designs, and runs high-quality, award-winning audio shows and video series enjoyed (or at least heard and seen) by millions.
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Work samples
Into America, from MSNBC and NBC News
From the series Reconstructed, this episode builds up to the heroic civil disobedience of Bree Newsome Bass. I edited, mixed, scored, and sound designed the whole series, including this culmination of Bree’s journey to the top of a flagpole in Charleston, South Carolina.
Street Disciples is a 5-part series on hip-hop's 50th anniversary. I edited, mixed, scored, and sound designed each episode with the goal of putting the listener in the room where it happened.
For this first episode of Street Disciples: The Concrete Jungle, I made a promo clip to recreated Grand Wizzard Theodore's discovery of his needle drop technique.
One challenge of this episode was making sure the listener could differentiate the AI host from Into America's host, Trymaine Lee. I scored the intro using sounds from technologies past, like AIM alerts, Windows and Mac startup, fax, dot matrix printer, Nokia ringtone, and a dial up modem.
A Black church in Maryland is trying to save the last remnants of their community. Revived some iffy field tape with iZotope, extra ambi, and some sultry tunes. This was part of a field segment in collaboration with MSNBC dayside.
Stay Tuned with Preet
Retired FDNY Capt. Brenda Berkman joined Preet Bharara for a special episode commemorating 9/11, as well as her historic lawsuit that forced the FDNY to allow women firefighters.
As Senior Producer, I pitched Capt. Berkman, then convinced her to come to the studio. I also managed Preet prep, directed the interview, and then did the edit, mix, and sound design.
Recorded at The New Yorker offices near Ground Zero, Preet interviewed a master interviewer, and of course we had to talk about Robert Zimmerman.
As a special feature for Preet’s 100th episode, and a tie-in to his book as well as a future show launch we were planning, I came up with the idea to ask each guest to define justice.
The Naked American Songbook
I created this show for radio and podcast with Julian Fleisher for WNYC. We wanted to make it bursting with songs, so I used a kind of Pee-wee Herman, quick cut editing style.
In this clip, Glee star Darren Criss quoted Sondheim to link Cole Porter and Carly Rae Jepson. I mixed and sound designed all three seasons.
NPR’s Ari Shapiro is also Pink Martini’s occasional vocalist, and a song-lover with deep knowledge and appreciation for the Great American Songbook
Comedian, actor, activist, and singer Lea DeLaria (Orange Is the New Black) savored the chance to get nerdy about songs, and one of her favorite singers, Ella Fitzgerald.
A conversation with lyricist Sheldon Harnick, one of the architects of the modern Broadway musical, who showed Ira Glass the magic of a three-act structure. Sheldon passed on in 2023 at age 99, and he lives on through his indelible lyrics to Fiddler on the Roof and more. He told us about an early cloud collaboration technique, through the mail.
WNYC’s New Standards
In Becoming Billy Porter, we explored how Billy’s love for and history with musical theater helped him form and re-form his identity throughout his live.
A pilot with American Songbook evangelist, performer, and historian Michael Feinstein. Here we talked with Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his theme to Mission Impossible.
I brought rising jazz vocal star Jazzmeia Horn into the WNYC studio to talk with weekend New Standards host Paul Cavalconte.
