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Correspondence

19/03/2011
Appreciation

Ten weeks ago, Martin WIlliams proposed collaborating on a spare-time project. It turned into Correspondence, and was an absolute blast! The rules: Martin spends a week making one minute of audio, and sends it to me. One week later I …Read the Rest

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“confusing the listeners”

14/03/2011
Appreciation

It’s a key warning from editors and reference books: don’t confuse the listener. Montages are “notoriously difficult to follow”. In creative or features circles, we tend to groan at it. How can a listener be confused? 1) if they’ve drifted …Read the Rest

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Radio and Telly

21/02/2011
Appreciation

I’m probably one of those radio people with a chip on their shoulder about telly. After hearing about the the possibility of a Bleak Expectations moving to TV, I (immediately) tweeted: Oh FFS… just pay well for radio! RT @mediaukradio …Read the Rest

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“No YouTube for audio!” Part 2

13/02/2011
Appreciation

This is a rather more simple and short post than part one. Huffduffer I was well pleased when I found this, a few years back. Plenty of social elements to it, the one big design difference to YouTube is that …Read the Rest

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“No YouTube for audio!” Part 1

08/02/2011
Appreciation

It’s one of those topics that comes up in radio-ist conversation: “there’s no YouTube for audio” preceded sometimes by “how come/it’s a shame that” (and followed by “telly gets all the money). Hidden away in this not particularly about-audio article, …Read the Rest

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Pip-lot of the Future!

07/12/2010
Appreciation

I just created these pips, and the name that came to mind was Dan Dare and the Time Signal of the Future! However I expect to name it as such would  infringe on someone’s copyright, so instead I’m calling it …Read the Rest

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NGO Audio-ing

05/11/2010
Appreciation

This post is mostly two weeks old – I’m only just getting round to wrapping it up now, though the programmes mentioned have all been superseded. I’m back at International Crisis Group, as a consultant to help them with podcasting …Read the Rest

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Inez Tan Interview

18/10/2010
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Slow Radio

10/09/2010
Appreciation

Just listened to the Saltcast – Rob Rosenthal and Jay Allison talking about slow radio. Reiterating the points made by Rick Moody in the forward to Reality Radio: “patience is it’s own reward”, Moody writes, “and in the old days …Read the Rest

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Recording in Los Angeles

06/07/2010
Audio

It’s fair to say that if you can’t get good tape in Los Angeles, you can’t get good tape anywhere. They people love to talk, and to our ears that are fascinating. Local awareness, inhibition, plenty of volume. And, well, …Read the Rest

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