Ways of Hearing 1 – TIME
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Contemplate the way digital audio – in music recording, and in radio and television broadcast – employs a different sense of time than we use in our offline life, a time that is more regular and yet less communal. Guests include: Ali Shaheed Muhammed of A Tribe Called Quest; and Joe Castiglione, the radio voice of the Boston Red Sox.
This is the first episode of Ways of Hearing, a six-part podcast hosted by musician Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi), exploring the nature of listening in our digital world.
Credits: Produced by Damon Krukowski, Max Larkin and Ian Coss. Written and hosted by Damon Krukowski. Sound design by Ian Coss. Executive Producer is Julie Shapiro. Showcase is a production of Radiotopia from PRX.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.9 | The first record I made was all-analog. It wasn't a choice. That's just how it was done in the 80s. |
| 0:15.1 | My friends and I lived in an all-analog world. There were no computers in our lives. |
| 0:23.6 | That didn't feel weird. It would have been weird if there had been. At the time, computers were something you saw on TV during a moonshot. |
| 0:30.6 | ...minus 15 seconds. Guidances internal. You saw people sitting at computers at NASA Mission Control. |
| 0:39.3 | Making a record wasn't anything like a moonshot. |
| 0:42.3 | It didn't use numbers. |
| 0:44.3 | It didn't use data. |
| 0:46.3 | All-engin running. |
| 0:49.3 | Not that there was no technology involved. |
| 0:52.3 | The tape decks, mixing board, microphones, they all seemed |
| 0:56.1 | very magical. But they were made of magnets, gears, motors, electricity, like all the mechanical |
| 1:03.0 | objects in our lives then. And so, my bandmates and I set up our instruments in the studio, |
| 1:10.1 | we counted off, and we played our songs. |
| 1:19.3 | In many ways, it's simply nostalgia to think that it was so different. People are people, |
| 1:25.4 | and our technology is always changing. |
| 1:29.3 | Still, there's something particular about that analog experience, |
| 1:33.3 | which seems hard to conjure back up in the digital present. |
| 1:37.3 | And for that very reason, it feels important to try. |
| 1:41.3 | I don't want to stay at your party. |
| 1:48.0 | I don't want to talk with your friends. |
| 1:52.0 | I don't want to vote for your president. |
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