Sonic Bubbles: Escaping noise, but at what cost?

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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For over a century, humans have been using technology to shape our sonic environment. White noise machines, nature recordings, noise canceling headphones and high-tech hearables all allow us to create an auditory safe space we can escape into. But is it possible to have too much control over what you hear? Featuring media studies professor Mack Hagood. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by ⁠Defacto Sound⁠. Subscribe on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Purchase Hush: Media and Media and Sonic Self-Control, by Mack Hagood. Subscribe to Phantom Power wherever you get your podcasts. Get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp at betterhelp.com/20k. Visit monday.com/podcast for your free two-week trial. Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at Stamps.com. Just click the microphone at the top right corner and type the promo code 20k. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/sonicbubbles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.1	Zocococ.com slash Hertz.
0:30.8	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:35.5	You should go out, right?
0:37.1	Just wanting to say listen to the music all the time.
0:40.1	This is from the movie Baby Driver.
0:42.4	It's kind of an action comedy about a group of bank robbers and criminals.
0:46.1	The main character is a young getaway driver whose nickname is Baby.
0:50.0	And the thing about Baby is that he's always wearing earbuds.
0:53.7	So, what are you listening to?
0:56.4	Music.
0:57.9	That's right. You're telling him, baby.
0:59.6	Baby has tenetous, which is a condition where his ears are constantly ringing.
1:04.6	To cope with it, he listens to music pretty much non-stop.
1:08.5	But Baby's music does more than just drown out the ringing in his ears.
1:12.6	It also helps him focus while he's pulling off mind-blowing car stunts and speeding away from the
1:17.8	scene of a crime.
1:24.4	Like Baby, I've also got a few go-to playlist that I turn on when I need to escape.
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