This post is not about the content of talk radio programs, but about the sound of talkers on talk radio, especially those not in the studio where the program originates. This will not be an extremely complex technical article (I hope) though some technical material needs to be presented in a simplified (perhaps over-simplified) way. If…
RECORDING NATURE – PART 2
This is the second part of a two-part series (so far) on recording nature. The first part dealt with some common technology used to record the sounds of nature. This part highlights some recordists, most of whom I have met (and some I know well), who work in this area. The idea of doing this…
RECORDING NATURE – PART 1
This post is in response to an email I received recently. A reader of this site had seen a television feature about the nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton and thought it would make for a good blog post. Actually I have met any number of nature sound recordists, including Mr. Hempton, so I think it…
AZORIAN REPORT
(Sunset in the Azores) This is a brief summary of the symposium, Invisible Places, held in April at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island in the Azores. Your Audio Penguin, Eric Somers, did a presentation there. The entire conference proceedings will be posted sometime in June and I will…
NEWS: WORLD PENGUIN DAY
Your Audio Penguin is happy to celebrate World Penguin Day today, 25 April, 2017 and tell you about some upcoming posts to The Audio Penguin. I have recently returned from nearly two weeks in the Azores where I attended Invisible Places ’17, a conference on sound, place and environment. There were many interesting presenters and…
SPRING CONFERENCES
There some interesting conferences this spring for people interested in exploring some of the lesser known aspects of sound. In this post I will describe three of them. I expect to attend at least two of them, maybe all three. I am presenting a paper at Invisible Places. Full disclosure also requires me to say…
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