Intro from Jay Allison: If you like sophisticated sound design with your stories, you’re living at a good moment. Digital tools and obsessive artists have converged. To reveal more secrets of this world, Transom presents another in our series on using music in radio stories. This one is by Brendan Baker of the strange and…
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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Recording-Not-By-The-Book.mp3DownloadListen to “Recording Not By The Book” When students of mine say to me “I’m going to record an interview via Skype,” I tend to freak-out. Recording the best possible sound is so ingrained in me, a Skype interview is close to the last thing I’d consider because of the poor sound quality. And yet,…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 122, published June 6, 2017. I sunk a lot of hours this weekend trying to write a column on “Peak Podcasting,” following some inspiration from a tweet by the esteemed Lizzie O’Leary — which speaks to a broad feeling that I’ve been seeing a…
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Will Slattery and Rory O’Connor from Rory’s Stories discuss whether Diarmuid Connolly will be banned and if so, for how long? Does he deserve a 12 week ban or was it so slight that he should be let off? And is Connolly now a liability for Jim Gavin and the Dubs? Meath manager, Andy McEntee,…
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The Pentagon! Buenos Aires! Some Dakotas! The fifth part of Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks continued the show’s global expansion. Ernie Hudson’s in the Pentagon, on the hunt for Major Briggs. There’s a black box in Buenos Aires receiving mysterious phone calls. We checked in on iconic characters like Nadine, Dr. Jacoby, and The Pajama Boy…
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The much feared/derided Central Competitions Control Committee will meet on Tuesday to contemplate a possible sanction for Connolly for laying his hand on linesman Ciaran Branagan last Saturday. The rulebook is fairly blunt on the subject. What’s called a “minor physical infraction” against an official is punishable by a 12-week ban at the minimum. Opinion…
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Image via Flickr. More journalists are turning to podcasting to help audiences digest and discuss what’s going on in the news. Audiences have devoured newer podcasts like The New York Times’s The Daily, which gained more than 20 million listens since its launch in January, and Pod Save the People, hosted by Black Lives Matter…
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On 8 May 2017, the American Conservative blog posted a story under the headline “When Is It OK to Kill Whites?” reporting that Texas A&M philosophy professor Tommy Curry had said that in order for African-Americans to gain equality, “some white people might have to die.” The story was accompanied by a recording of a…
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Kenya Barris is the executive producer of the family comedy Blackish and Shahidi plays Zoe, the eldest daughter in the Johnson family. There are hopes for a spin-off starring Shahidi’s character going off to college. Meanwhile, Barris is piloting a few other TV shows for the fall– including a comedy starring Felicity Huffman and Courtney…
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Mr. Ligon has gathered diverse works of Western modernism along with African and American folk art, including artists such as Norman Lewis, Philip Guston, Andy Warhol, Joan Miró and Bill Traylor. There is a cross-section of portraiture by Cecily Brown, Jack Whitten and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; abstraction by Ross Bleckner, Jennie C. Jones and Joan Mitchell….
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