Is Hearing Better than Seeing?
Will something be lost as NPR and others move from all audio broadcasts to multimedia web sites?
Will something be lost as NPR and others move from all audio broadcasts to multimedia web sites?
Apropos to nothing, really. I like this 2000 Transom interview with the late Studs Terkel.
"I'd gone to law school and it was a bleak horrendous experience. Under no circumstances would I ever practice law."
Elizabeth Hauke's documentary 'The Sound of Disease "examines the use of sound in the diagnosis of disease, and features the ground-breaking work of Prof Dan Lloyd, who converts the data in brain scans into music to identify otherwise 'invisible' diseases."
Elizabeth Hauke is an independent radio presenter and producer of Short Science (www.shortscience.co.uk), a weekly science radio show and podcast. She also makes freelance packages and documentaries.
Sound Tourism maps places worth a visit because they sound so good. In this example, curator Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, UK, introduces the great Stalacpipe Organ in Virgina, USA. By tapping stalactites with mallets, it claims to be the world's largest natural musical instrument.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 15 seconds
Vegetable Violence from tim prebble on Vimeo.
Playtime: 1 minute 45 seconds
Sound Rich, Technology, Music, Hearing, Design, Food and Beverage
The artist Marcus Coates recorded the dawn chorus in English woodlands; he then slowed down the recordings, and filmed human singers perform the newly approachable songs in everyday English settings. Then, he speeded the footage back up again. The sound is extraordianary – and in this case, so is the video.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds
A man describes having a cochlear implant and hearing birdsong for the first time; another recalls the sounds of Britain during World War II. Two items in BBC Radio 4's take on citizen journalism, iPM.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 24 minutes
Date: September, 2010