Here are a few things I’ve heard recently that seem both cool and of-interest to *Brainz people.
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Music
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Commonwealth Club: Music Matters: lecture series on different aspects of music. See especially Mozart and Masonic Semiotics. @reosarevok bait!
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Song Exploder: Artists walk you through the creation of a particular song.
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99% Invisible:
- Longbox mostly stories about architecture/design, this episode talks about a political victory for R.E.M. and the CD longbox.
- Bone Music: the kinda insane story of how Soviet-era travellers smuggled Western music into the Soviet Union encoded on used X-ray plates.
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Revisionist History: Hallelujah: ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell tells a story about how some songs, like Cohen’s Hallelujah are not exactly created in a day.
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studio d’essai: community radio (volunteer, very amateur, podcastable, add-free) weekly show presenting experimental and electronic music, with an effort to make it international, and a keen interest in free culture. All playlists have MusicBrainz links.
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Heavyweight: Gregor: if you let a friend borrow an Alan Lomax box set, and your friend went on to heavily sample the material and become a rock star, you’d want your CDs back, right? This is more about friendship than it is about music, I guess.
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Noisy People: Interview with Caroline Martel about the Ondes Martenot, possibly the coolest electronic instrument ever.
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Cadence: music plus neuroscience. First episode ("What is Music?) didn’t exactly blow my mind, but it was interesting enough that I’ll listen to more.
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Sidedoor: Shake It Up: Smithsonian’s podcast does a ten minute profile on Emory Cook, a pioneering audio engineer and inventor. Skip to 14:00 minutes.
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The Devil in music (an untold history of the Tritone): Adam Neely’s vlog discusses the creepiest interval on the 12-tone scale
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TEDx: Pop Music is Stuck on Repeat (video): I know, groan, another TED talk. You’ll live. Linguist/data-scientist Colin Morris visualizes repetition in lyrics and gives you permission to enjoy it shamelessly
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Twenty Thousand Hertz:The [COMPRESSED] History of Mastering: dark arts and instantly recognizable examples.
Archiving
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Inquiring Minds: Interviews with scientists for non-scientists. This episode: collection museums!
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Hanselminutes: Archiving Digital Experiences using Emulation with Jason Scott
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Recode Decode: Interview with Brewster Kahle
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Jason Scott Talks His Way out of It: The Don Joyce and Negativland Episode : If you ever meet Jason, be prepared to be late for whatever you’re doing after. The guy can talk. Stories about do-ocratic archiving, video games, BBSes and finding a place in the world. This episode, Negativland!
other
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Twenty Thousand Hertz: Space: What would things actually sound like in space?
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99% Invisible: Vox Ex Machina: how the inventor of the Voder tackled radio encryption in WWII.
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O’Reilly Security Podcast: The chilling effects of DRM, nascent pro-security industries, and the narrative power of machines: In this episode, Cory Doctorow talks about how the EFF is challenging parts of the DMCA.
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Ted Radio Hour: highly produced intersection of US public radio and TED talks. This episode: Mark Ronson, Kirby Ferguson, Johanna Blakley and Steve Johnson on where new ideas are stolen from.
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The Allusionist: Harsh Realm: In the early 90s, Megan Jasper pranked the New York Times, convincing them that people in the Seattle scene said things like “okey dokey artichokey”.
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See also:
- Podcasts, mixes, etc by MeB users
- follow reosarevok on facebook if you don’t already!
