EDPX 3750 / 4750 Sound Cultures
Blog Post 2 (15%)
2-3 paragraphs
Due by 5pm, Friday, Feb 15
Our first review blog entry emphasized descriptions of sonorous objects rather than
assessed, analyzed, or analogized around that sonic material. Now it is time to bring
some of these other elements into the review’s language, balancing descriptions of
sonorous objects and production strategies with accounts of some of the historical, formal
or genre, and theoretical contexts with which the individual work resonates. We want to
explore these resonances as a way of mixing larger complexes of meaning and vibrant
networks of association across different sources and sets of material, and we will do so
through the exploration of podcasts.
1) Pick one podcast from the list of those provided.
2) Identify the podcast topic and theme in your own words. What does the podcast
have to tell us that is new, focused and exciting about the topic?
3) How does the podcast address issues of “listening” or “hearing”? According to
the podcast, what role does technology play in listening or hearing?
4) What theoretical and cultural contexts are being used to present and discuss the
theme? Do these contexts go beyond historical and biographical documentary?
5) What specific forms of audio production or phenomenon, specific techniques or
styles of production, are demonstrated by the podcast? How does the podcast
encourage and support us to listen to, compare and/or contrast specific “sonorous
objects”?
6) If this were your podcast, what is one production technique you would want to
use in order to more creatively engage the thematic focus?
Please post your review to the class blog, along with a link to the podcast you chose, by
5pm, Friday, February 15.
WNYC’s RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/
* “AV Smackdown … The Podcast”
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2009/may/18/av-smackdownthe-podcast/
* “Musical Language” (April 21, 2006)
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/
* “Pop Music” (March 21, 2008)
http://www.radiolab.org/2008/apr/21/
* “Space” (May 12, 2006)
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/oct/22/
ABC Radio National: “Hearing Voices” (July 22, 2006)
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2006/1689941.htm
Tone Generation: “Programme 20: Electronics and Voice”
http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/tone-generation.html
http://blip.tv/the-tone-generation/rss
Welcome To Mars: “Programme 6: 1953: Other Tongues, Other Flesh”
http://www.simonsound.co.uk/podcasts/marspodcast.xml
Sounding Out!: Sound Studies Blog: http://soundstudiesblog.com
* “Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop”
http://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/04/19/sounding-out-podcast-episode-6spaces-of-listening-the-record-shop/
* “Episode #7: Celebrate World Listening Day with the World Listening Project”
http://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/07/18/sounding-out-podcast-episode-7celebrate-world-listening-day-with-the-world-listening-project/
Shallow Rewards: http://vimeo.com/shallowrewards/
* “Episode #19: The Hiding”
http://vimeo.com/54523062