Weeee! Off to Leipzig today, for the EBU/Prix Europa/Leipziger-Medienstiftung Think Tank on Radio in the Digital Age. Lots of good (and short) thought pieces to read on it here. Also had a look at the weather forecast. Flurries, and the real-feel doesn’t pass zero! Still looking forward to spreading the In The Dark way, meeting friends, and stocking up on chocolate.
The best of the 70s
14/01/2012
Theory
Commercial radio has been thrown into fearful angst this as key players realised there is a rival technology capable of bringing the 1970s vividly to life. Thirty one years after perfecting – or so they thought – the illusion of …Read the Rest
Sod off, insecure old radio people, with your “theatre of the mind”
01/01/2012
Theory
Radio has a weight around its shoulders – baggage from the previous generation. The grandees of today (and most of their teachers) went through an era in their youth when their preferred medium was overtaken by television, and so to …Read the Rest
Radio format and podcast fatigue
28/12/2011
Theory
The cool kids don’t listen to This American Life anymore. That sweeping statement isn’t accurate, but has more of a ring of truth to it in Europe than the US. Why? Because when you’ve heard one TAL, you’ve heard 90% …Read the Rest
2011 in Inverse Proportion
24/12/2011
Audio
Technique: grab some stuff from the Raw Audio folder, all from 2011; line it up; export. Voila!
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Raven Wood on the Winter Solstice
21/12/2011
Audio
Went off to Raven Wood today. It’s an interesting place, coniferous woodland on sand dunes, with the Irish Sea on one side and reclaimed mudflats on the other. In here you have tons of Greenland white-fronted geese, curlew, rooks, snipe …Read the Rest
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Berlin Flagpoles
19/11/2011
Audio
First lunch break from the Prix Europa, on the Sunday, I crossed the road and made a couple of wee recordings. It was lovely!
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Hearing Voices is Meditation
16/10/2011
Appreciation
I spent a sunny hour in autumnal Green Park yesterday with a keen and experienced practitioner of Yoga. And I spent an hour ironing shirts today while listening to Hearing Voices. And the point: some of us meditate; some of …Read the Rest
My Batteries Ran Out in the Rose Garden
18/09/2011
Audio
I didn’t notice for a moment – in the rain, with the bird, the dog, and the plane.
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Changsha Market Walk-through
31/08/2011
Audio
Yes I know. I know, I know. It’s a recording of walking through a market – I know! It’s part of the little field recording I got to do on my trip to China, and consider it the last of …Read the Rest
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East Street Market Walk-through
31/08/2011
Audio
From late January 2010.
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