UW News
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.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/05/18082807/SeattleRadioTheater_applause-150x150.jpg)
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.