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Snap Judgment

Soundtrack Of Silence

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Arts/performing Arts, Society & Culture/documentary, Music, Arts, Performing Arts, Snap, Personal Journals, Storytelling, Society & Culture/personal Journals

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What sounds would you want memorize if you were told you were going to be completely deaf before you turned 28?

Producer: April Dembosky

Original Score: Renzo Gorrio

Sound Design: Leon Morimoto and April Dembosky

Season 9 Episode 3

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios

0:07.1

Hey Snap, it was a quick favor.

0:12.8

I really want to know what you think about what's happening at Snap, our storytelling

0:16.8

and everything, so we're conducting an audience survey.

0:20.2

And I would be super grateful if you could take just a few minutes to share your thoughts.

0:25.8

Visit survey.prx.org slash snap to take the survey today.

0:31.7

It's short, I promise.

0:33.5

That's survey.prx.org slash snap.

0:39.5

Thanks.

0:40.9

Snap, snap, snap.

0:51.2

Snap is.

0:52.8

So you remember those audio tests you had to do at elementary school?

0:56.8

The ones where the tones change pitch and speed and you raise your hand every time you hear

1:01.8

something different?

1:03.8

Well, from Matt Hay, this childhood right of passage is where it all started.

1:12.0

I never raised my hand enough in the whole like tone test.

1:15.2

I can even remember sometimes raising my hand because I felt like it had been too long since

1:18.8

I heard a tone.

1:19.8

So I was just making it up.

1:22.6

That faked his way through hearing tests for years as a kid.

1:25.3

He just ignored the fact that his hearing was not as good as everyone around him.

1:30.4

And then when he was 18, he applied to West Point for college.

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