How Digital Audio Has Changed Listening (w/ Damon Krukowski) and How Much You Can Know
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how digital technology is changing the way we listen to music and other audio from special guest Damon Krukowski, who is a musician, writer, and author of the new book “Ways of Hearing.” We’ll also answer a listener question about whether there’s a limit to how much we can know.
Get your copy of “Ways of Hearing” on Amazon: https://amazon.com
More from Damon Krukowski:
- “Ways of Hearing” on Amazon — https://amazon.com
- Damon Krukowski’s website — http://www.dadadrummer.com/
- Pitchfork profile — https://pitchfork.com/staff/damon-krukowski/
- Follow Damon K on Twitter @dada_drummer — https://twitter.com/dada_drummer
- Radiotopia Showcase — https://www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/ways-of-hearing
Additional resources discussed:
- What’s the most we can remember? | BBC — http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150401-whats-the-most-we-can-remember
- Memory Capacity of the Brain is 10 Times More than Previously Thought | Salk Institute for Biological Studies — https://www.salk.edu/news-release/memory-capacity-of-brain-is-10-times-more-than-previously-thought/
- What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain? | Scientific American — https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/
- Your Short-Term Memory Can Only Hold 7 Items (But You Can Use This Trick) | Curiosity.com — https://curiosity.im/2L0IdcI
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn about how digital technology is changing the way we listen to music and other audio |
| 0:12.1 | from a special guest, writer, musician and |
| 0:14.5 | podcaster Damon Krakowski. We'll also answer a listener question about |
| 0:18.2 | whether there's a limit to how much a person can know. Let's satisfy some |
| 0:21.7 | curiosity. You listen to things all the time, whether |
| 0:24.7 | it's this podcast or music on your favorite radio station, but you probably don't |
| 0:29.2 | pay that much attention to how you listen. One person who has thought about that is our guest for |
| 0:35.3 | our Sunday Sounds mini series. Damon Krakowski is a writer and musician and |
| 0:40.0 | you may have heard him as the host of the Ways of Hearing Podcast, |
| 0:43.8 | which was part of the Radiotopia showcase and is now a book from the MIT Press. |
| 0:48.5 | In Ways of Hearing, Damon examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money and power. |
| 0:59.0 | Lots of things. |
| 1:00.0 | In part of our conversation, Damon explained how digital processing and other technology is removing noise from what we hear. |
| 1:08.0 | For example, you can use editing software to remove unwanted sounds from a podcast recording, or stretch or change the pitch of an |
| 1:14.8 | instrument's notes. So that's a good thing, right? Well Damon says not necessarily. |
| 1:20.3 | Here's Ashley's exchange with Damon on Noise. |
| 1:24.0 | If we're around Noise all the time, what do you think the loss is if we don't have it in our |
| 1:31.0 | recorded media? |
| 1:32.0 | Well, Noise is communicative, it's we gain meaning from it and |
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