Feeling Weird?
Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful, but Inside Itโs Even Worse ... Hallelujah! GenjiandProust has posted another stellar compilation of weird audio dramas, with descriptions, helpful sorting info and links for all.
Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful, but Inside Itโs Even Worse ... Hallelujah! GenjiandProust has posted another stellar compilation of weird audio dramas, with descriptions, helpful sorting info and links for all.
"BirdWeather is a visualization platform that... is continuously listening to over 200 active audio stations around the world and is actively plotting their results in a user-friendly map interface..." jessamyn posted about the birbs, and it is super cool.
"... observed from a little yellow room hanging inexplicably alone in the atmosphere of Neptune." The only thing better than reading this warm, evocative (and sometimes shocking!) reminiscence by sonascope of falling in love with audio stories would be to hear the tale told in sonascope's own voice.
I fucking love ranting about this topic because it makes me feel smart and it's taken me decades to learn a lot of this stuff and debunking audiophile woo. Loquacious with an epic "extended play" on music audio.
Are Siri, Alexa, et al, relaying your private conversations to advertisers? Kadin2048 on why this isn't the case, why the truth is actually more nefarious, and why the distinction matters.
GenjiandProust's Increasingly Strange Stories for an Increasingly Strange Year is another faboo roundup of weird audio dramas, again with tons of info and links to each one ... And for yet more weird and wonderful, PussKillian has posted NPR's excellent list of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy books of the last decade. Cheers! ๐พ
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.
Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's โI Wear No Maskโ and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.
Fantastic in-depth post by AgentRocket on Suzanne Vega and Tom's Diner ๐ฝ, plus more assorted autumn audio on mefi:
Ad for Argo's Book of Dreams featuring Nandi Bushell ๐ฅ; meet John Farnham, Australia's famed "Whispering Jack" ๐ฆ๐บ; the global, omnivorous sonic diet of SVBKVLT ๐; U2 Joshua Tree tour fan edit video ๐ผ; songwriter (and Oscar-winning actress) Mary Steenburgen ๐ข; poet, musician, activist, Moor Mother๐ค; true stories from Martin Simpson in his "Rooted" album ๐; Great Chafing Moonboots, it's Friends Again!๐ป; 1980 Concert by Young Marble Giants ๐ต; Mercedes de Sosa and Gracias a la vida ๐; Wendy Carlos' Switched-on Bach, 1968 ๐น; Maestro: animated woodland creatures perform a gorgeous Bellini opera aria ๐ผ; The World According to Sound podcast ๐; Dylan Tallchief made a drum machine in Excel ๐ฅ; Sounding off, an appreciation of and guide to nautical noises โ๏ธ; Honeyland Happy Honeybee Harmonies (animation) ๐; Sudan Archives, North African style violin + West Coast RnB, funk, soul ๐ป; Indigo Girls' Swamp Ophelia ๐ฅ; open-source Spleeter audio separation library ๐ง; Lucy Dacus seasonal covers for Halloween and Christmas๐; "Let It Go" in Klingon โ๏ธ; recovering Native language for the indigenous community๐๐ฝ; 1979-1983: A very abbreviated musical history โฎ๏ธ; Air Safety Video, K-pop styleโ๏ธ; Kesha, Raising Hell with Big Freedia ๐ฅ; Blade Runner Esper Edition soundtrack fan-made bootleg ๐; restored classic and lost punk films ๐ฝ; acoustic version of Ministry's "Everyday is Halloween" ๐; and finally, an alter of sound for Day of the Dead ๐
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Iridic's post on Fourble: Point it at some audio files hosted anywhere online, and it'll turn them into a podcast feed.
If an alien civilization picked up one of the Voyager probes a million years from now, what would they make of the information on the record? They probably wouldnโt think they way we do.
The Tapestry of the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence: MetaFilter's own moonmilk took a copy of a copy of the audio data on Voyager's Golden Record, and turned it into a 40-meter-long tapestry of human images-as-sound. (w/bonus Peter the Morkie!)
Tackling the important questions: What is this voice saying?
Presented for your consideration, Iridic's M I N D W E B S post tunes in an historic archive of semi-dramatized readings of classic science fiction tales by some of the genre's best authors, preserved from weekly broadcasts aired by WHA Radio in Madison, Wisconsin
Today on Mefi, a post from zarq about earbud.fm, a "friendly guide to great podcasts," while elsewhere around the site:
podcast discussions on FanFare
The latest Mefi podcast (with special guest Eyebrows McGee!)
And recently on Ask Me, Entertain my ears, smartly!; English-language podcasts from other parts of the globe?; Cozy (but dark) relationships / life advice podcasts?; Podcasts Please; Art history podcast suggestions?; good podcasts about extremely ancient history?; good podcasts about niche / specific interests hosted by funny people?; Ongoing fictional podcasts?; Star Wars podcasts?; Podcasts on addiction and substance abuse?
I'm working on a performance bit that uses 1920s diction, but there's something I'm missing. What are the elements of the popular radio voice that make it distinctive?
Some interesting answers to monkihed's interesting question, Linguists: what makes the 1920s voice so distinctive?
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