Sarah Weck, Associate Producer at OTB is a writer and audiohead. She lives in her Brooklyn farm apartment with two cats and two dogs.

Describe your ideal listening environment.

An old house with open windows

What are your favorite sounds?

Cicadas, Coke can opening, hearing a concert from a distance

Which sound do you most like making?

Kardashian impression

Who do you like to talk to most?

My high school art teacher

What does it sound like in your head?

Bad mashups, love poems

What was the first thing you heard today?

A chihuahua and a cat play-fighting next to me

What sounds do you hear right now?

Soft typing, Blood Orange, cityscape

On what occasion do you become loud?

My twin sister and I talking over each other

On what occasion did you most recently whisper?

At an art gallery during a poetry reading. I think I said “My leg is asleep”

Are you a good listener?

I hope so

What podcast do you listen to the most?

I loved S-Town, and I love Radiolab

Describe your ideal soundscape?

I’m upstairs, people I love are getting ready for something downstairs, evening birds through the window

What do you consider to be the most frightening sound?

Alarm clock

What do you consider the most overrated sound?

Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith

Whose speaking or singing voice do you most admire?

Speaking - I saw Hadestown recently, and the man who plays Satan has this deep growl voice that I loved

Singing - Sharon van Etten

Who is your hero of music or audio?

Thom Yorke <3

Which sound skill, talent or superpower do you possess?

Sound mixing!

Which sound skill, talent or superpower do you secretly possess?

I can carry a tune now and then

Which sound skill, talent or superpower do you most desire?

I wish I could write songs …. I can write and I can do sound stuff but songwriting is a different game

What is the most extravagant / furthest length you have gone for sound?

I’ll drive hours to get out of the city just to hear some nature. Spent a lot of money on ProTools too

What is your most vivid sound memory?

Gameboy games

Which of your possessions do you most associate with a sound?

My car - best spot in the city for loud off key singing

Which extinct sound do you most wish you could hear?

Absence of noise pollution

What advice did you regret not listening to?

My Arabic teacher encouraging me to quit my job to stay in his class

Describe silence in ten words.

A thousand tiny birds singing, if you must you must

When did you feel unheard?

Hanging out with straight people

Describe a sound that troubles you.

Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith

What will it sound like on the “other side”?

Like when Squidward goes to the future in SpongeBob

When and where were you happiest, and what did it sound like?

The first music festival I went to in Montreal - the best part of festivals is when you can hear multiple sets going on at once and you can choose which one to go toward

What was the best thing you heard this week?

The soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World