Audio producer, photographer, traveler, musician, activist, parent & lox lover. A collection of sights, sounds & texts.
www.benarnow.net
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One reason radio is superior to TV is that radio has better pictures.
Jim Stagnitto, WNYC engineer.
(via wnyc)
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Soundcheck ®: Dr. Dog: In Studio - WNYC
Dr. Dog live in the studio at WNYC with a new album on the way.
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16 Contestants Fight to Win American Beatbox Championships - WNYC Culture
Not to be missed. Streaming live tonight starting at 6PM.
“There’s no telling what kinds of sounds might be heard from the stage at Le Poisson Rouge this weekend when the second annual American Beatbox Championships take the stage. Armed with their voices, their mouths and a microphone, 16 contestants will battle for the title of champion. “
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Soundcheck: In Studio: tUnE-yArDs - WNYC
Listening to this, amazing studio performance…
“Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, recorded her 2009 debut BiRd-BrAiNs straight to a voice recorder using mostly a ukulele and voice, looped over and again. It was an intimate, lo-fi affair drawing as much from R&B and Afro-pop as folk and rock - and the album was beloved as her high-intensity live shows. Her new record, w h o k i l l, marries the high and the “lo” in a joyful noise. Merrill and her band join us to explain all that font-formatting, and to perform live in studio.”
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How 'Radiolab' Is Transforming the Airwaves - NYTimes.com
I have a deep respect for the work of Jad Abumrad. These guys are both amazing and what they’ve done with RadioLab makes you think about the important place for radio in an ever-changing ‘new’ media landscape. A great line at the end: “The value of a media product does not come from being fast. It comes from being timeless.”
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the jazz loft
Caught some of this 10-part series on the radio this morning. The story of W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft. Amazing. Especially for all you obsessive photo and audio documentarians out there. Certain parts really resonated with me. I had always heard loft folklore from the 60s, but this takes you right there. Check out the radio series here. And more about the entire project here.
A little about the jazz loft project…
“From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. Smith’s work has remained in archives until now. The Jazz Loft Project is dedicated to uncovering the stories behind this legendary moment in American cultural history.”
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A great project discussed on WNYC Soundcheck back in the late Summer 09. Really wonderful, funny, fascinating stuff, check it out! The album cover speaks for itself.
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Speaking of arts funding, Brian Lehrer on WNYC did an interesting segment this morning on this very topic as part of his ‘30 Issues in 30 Days’ series…
Ann Marie Miller, executive director Art Pride New Jersey, and Norma Munn, chairperson of the New York City Arts Coalition, discuss arts funding in the context of the NJ gubernatorial and NYC mayoral elections.
