Ways of Hearing 3 – LOVE
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
You don't have to be the son of a jazz singer to recognize the voice of a loved one as music, made up of sounds so basic to our understanding that they precede language. And yet our digital devices strip much of that away, trading intimacy for efficiency. But what is the essential part of our voices, and what isn’t? Guests include: jazz singer (and Damon's mom) Nancy Harrow, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible, and musicologist Gary Tomlinson.
This is the third 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. |
| 0:08.6 | Let's see, does that work? |
| 0:10.6 | Yes. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah, right? |
| 0:12.4 | Do you hear me? |
| 0:13.3 | Yeah, I hear you. |
| 0:14.1 | Do you hear me? |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 0:16.1 | It sounds even better than our phone. |
| 0:18.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.9 | My mother's a jazz singer, Nancy Harrow. |
| 0:24.1 | She was pregnant with me when she posed for the cover of her second album |
| 0:27.0 | for Atlantic Records in 1963. |
| 0:29.9 | The photos carefully cropped so no one could tell. |
| 0:33.9 | The sky was blue and high above. I'm sure my mother sang to me as much as talked when I was a baby. |
| 0:42.4 | One of my earliest memories is her singing a Nat Aderly tune while keeping time on the |
| 0:48.0 | souls of my feet. |
| 0:49.0 | Now I reckon that on again because I'm working. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm working. |
| 0:53.0 | Right. |
| 0:57.6 | It's just that I liked it and it was very rhythmic and when I would be changing you or something that's what they would do yeah so you would play |
| 1:02.9 | it on my feet while you were changing me do you think my memory goes back that far of course I |
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