What I’m listening to lately.
Well, I have to confess that I’ve been in love with radiolab for a while now. I caught it one Friday night when I was late coming home from work, it was the sleep episode, I subscribed to the podcast immediately.
For those of you who don’t know what radiolab is, it’s a documentary radio show that usually (but not always) explores scientific concepts. It’s like This American Life, only instead of interesting people, it’s interesting phenomena. Also, host Jad Abumrod goes nuts with ProTools to make it really come alive.
That’s what I find so interesting, how clear they make complex aural situations. They will seamlessly “cut” from an interview Robert did in the field to Jad and Robert talking in the studio…and you can track it. It’s not just comprehensible, it’s immediately obvious. They can insert quick cutaways to different locations and even without obvious clues (background noise) it’s not confusing at all.
I really enjoy soundscapes in music and apparently in documentaries too.