Jocelyn Gonzales

Jocelyn Gonzales is currently Producer of Dish with Ed Levine, WNYC's weekly food program. After college, Jocelyn learned about radio drama as Associate Producer of Radio Stage at WNYC. In 1999, she took on the job of Associate Producer of Studio 360, the national radio magazine produced by PRI and WNYC. She received a 2000 NYS Associated Press Award for Best Feature for her work on 360. Since 1994, Jocelyn has been teaching sound production and coordinating the WNYU Radio Internship at Tisch School of the Arts. She's completely gratified by the moments when her young colleagues transcend the technical stuff and start finding their own voices and stories. (Spring 2003)

Jocelyn Gonzales appears in the following:

The Revolution Will Not be Autotuned

Friday, January 06, 2012

Think of Cher’s hit “Believe” and that robotic, computerized sound of her voice. (Now try getting it out of your head. Sorry.) The Autotune effect that sounded so radical at the turn...

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DJ Scientific

Friday, November 19, 2010

Marc Branch works at NASA as an aerospace engineer testing instruments used on outer-space telescopes. When he's off the clock, Branch is one of the most sought after hip-hop DJs around the country. Leading a double life as "DJ Scientific" he hopes to attract young hip-hop ...

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Recession Pop

Friday, March 27, 2009

Movie ticket sales are up. Book buyers can't get enough of Malcolm Gladwell. What makes pop entertainment recession-proof? Jocelyn Gonzales looks into which films, books, and music are popular when economic times are tough.

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Middle Collegiate Church Rocks the House of Worship

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Its roots go back to a group of Dutch traders who came to lower Manhattan in the 1600's, and it's the oldest continuous Protestant reform church in the country. But when you walk through the doors of Middle Church today, you'll find it's not just ...

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Pause, Play, Record

Friday, August 29, 2008

It's become a kind of sport for music-lovers to mourn yet another almost-obsolete technology. For Jocelyn Gonzales it's the cassette tape. Her old mix tapes can't be recreated in a playlist on iTunes -– they're a special medium unto themselves.

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Stealing the Sunshine to Light Up the Stage

Monday, August 04, 2008

On 23rd St, between the FDR Drive and the East river, sits a small unassuming building, about the size of a one bedroom loft, with a patio out back that doubles as a stage. The Solar 1 Arts and Education center, presents dance troupes, comedians, ...

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Technology Amps Up Musical Revival

Friday, June 13, 2008

The Tony Awards are this weekend. And the revival of Steven Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George has a pile of nominations. It’s about the painter Georges Seurat and his giant masterpiece, called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Seurat ...

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Sunday in the Park

Friday, June 13, 2008

The Tony-nominated revival of Steven Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George" is shaking up the theatre world with how it uses video projections and other high-tech effects to tell the story. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

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Girls on Film

Friday, April 11, 2008

At New York University's Kanbar film school, undergrads are training to be the next generation of filmmakers. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to some of her students, and the school’s associate dean, Sheril Antonio, about the ways female characters are portrayed on screen and ...

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Pop Song Muses

Friday, December 28, 2007

Writing love letters takes courage, but it’s a little gutsier to write and perform songs about the object of your affection. Steve Nelson and Jocelyn Gonzales have their own takes on rock and roll's long love affair with that one special girl.

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Design for the Real World: Backpacks

Friday, September 21, 2007

Design for the Real World: Backpacks

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NOLA Comes to Queens

Friday, August 03, 2007

Japanese-born artist Takashi Horisaki used to live in New Orleans. He recently returned to the Lower 9th Ward to bring attention to the city’s continuing struggle the best way he knew how: by making a sculpture. It's based on a wind- and water-ravaged shotgun house. Before its ...

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Capiz

Friday, July 27, 2007

In the Philippines, seashells are more than souvenirs -– they’re an art form. Jocelyn Gonzales explains the history and craft of capiz, a traditional method of transforming clamshells into something much more.

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The Romance of Magno Rubio

Monday, June 11, 2007

The first annual National Asian American Theater Festival begins in New York this week, with dozens of productions running at various spaces around the city. One of the featured plays is making a return engagement, and tells an immigrant story that is as resonant today, ...

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Be My Valentine: meet u l8r

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Are you looking to meet that special someone on this Valentine's Day, but tired getting set up in the usual ways? Well, WNYC's Jocelyn Gonzales checks out the cell phone matchmaker that's all the rage.

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Foley Artist

Friday, May 05, 2006

In movies, the sounds of punching and smashing are created by someone sitting in a room with a microphone and a bunch of props - just like in the days of radio drama. Foley artist Sue Zizza explains how to make a fight sound really good, or ...

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Get Well Soon

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Hospital architecture usually stirs up feelings of anxiety and dread—which may not encourage patients to recover quickly, according to several new studies. Jocelyn Gonzales reports on the architects and medical professionals who are designing a new wave of feel-good hospitals, as part of our on-going series on ...

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Bionic Hearing

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Michael Chorost was born with a severe hearing impairment, the result of a rubella epidemic in the 1960s. He used hearing aids, learned to speak, went to regular schools and got his Ph.D. in English. Then, a few years ago, Michael's residual hearing abruptly gave out. His ...

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Foley Artists

Thursday, February 09, 2006

In movies, the sounds of punching and smashing are created by someone sitting in a room with a microphone and a bunch of props -- just like in the days of radio drama. Foley artist Sue Zizza explains how to make a fight sound really good, or ...

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American Icons: Appalachian Spring

Saturday, January 07, 2006

In 1942, the composer Aaron Copland was commissioned to write a piece of music for the choreographer Martha Graham. Dance and music in America have never been the same.

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