As I mentioned in a previous entry, I am working on an application to be presented at the V&A Decode exhibition opening in December. I was asked to rework the Solar piece so that it could be audio responsive in real-time.

During the development, I realized my usual habit of listening to music was not going to serve me well. As far as I know, the gallery will not be blasting The Knife throughout the space. I switched off the music and started making beep boop blah blah blah noises into the microphone but this got old, fast.

I put out a call on Twitter for podcast recommendations. A couple people were strongly in favor of WNYC’s Radiolab. I decided to give it a go and man… it is all I have listened to for the last three weeks. Im completely addicted.

I took a snippet from the episode entitled “Musical Language” which features a beautiful soundscape created by Jonah Lehrer. In the episode, Jonah and Robert Krulwich are analyzing the notion that sound is “touch, at a distance”.

Solar rework from flight404 on Vimeo.

Many thanks to Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and the excellent Radiolab team for giving me so many hours of intelligent distraction.

Find out more about the podcast at: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

Hopefully, you will be entertained enough to support: http://www.wnyc.org/support/

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