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Curtis Takahashi

May 19, 2020

Campus colleagues: Curtis Takahashi — academic adviser, live radio ‘sound effects dude’

Curtis Takahashi reminds the audience to applaud in a Seattle Radio Theater production of "The Bishop's Wife" at Town Hall Seattle, broadcast by KIRO TV.

How do you make the sound of birds flying for a radio broadcast? Flapping leather gloves will do. Curtis Takahashi of UW Bothell’s Career Development Program talks about his side gig of providing sound effects for local live radio broadcasts.