Much of the plot setup and some of the dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s excellent 1985 film were brazenly lifted from an NPR Playhouse monologue by the radio artist Joe Frank.
A huge breakthrough: The German company Celemony has developed technology that can analyze polyphonic audio and break it up into individual notes, which can then be pitch-shifted, time-shifted, and otherwise mucked with.
At long last: The brilliant Los Angeles-based radio artist Joe Frank finally has a podcast.
The British musician Stuart Wyatt is a classically trained electric violinist who plays solo live shows using foot-controlled loop samplers, a technique known as live looping.
This innovative and challenging music fits nicely into one of the enduring themes here at Panopticist: the twisting and contorting of media to serve alternate, and more interesting, purposes.
The great Los Angeles-based radio artist Joe Frank has been struggling with health problems over the last few months. If you’ve never heard of him, he’s a completely original American storyteller whose shows have pioneered new forms of radio narrative over the last two decades.
Audiopad is “a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.”
My mother is Australian. I still possess one hyper-Australian cultural artifact from my childhood: a mid-’60s album called Join Rolf Harris Singing “The Court of King Caractacus” and Other Fun Songs.
I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More info is on the About page.
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