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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 186 (4-30)

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KUT's O’Dark 30 has only two weeks left to feature the very best from the world of independent radio that we can find here on PRX and elsewhere. Sunday nights at 10 on Austin's KUT 90.5. Join us for 3 hours of a bit of everything from the big wide world of independent radio production. Only two shows left

Episode 186 (4-30) includes Spike Gillespie's Delta State for KUT "Meditation Embezzle"...Sweet Illusion for the Bitter Tuition...The Mikie Show #61, Stephen...Horace Silver from KUT's Liner Notes...HowSound #50 - The Loneliest Creature on Earth...KUT's Views and Brews Remix: Fandom...Bonjour Chanson Series 12, Episode 59...How Are You Who You Are?...Yellowstone Geysers

The Mikie Show #61, Stephen

From Michael Carroll | Part of the The Mikie Show series | 28:03

Join us as we speak with concert pianist Stephen Cook. Along with being a wonderful player, he is bringing back the old-school piano recital (as Franz Liszt, inventor of the form, would have done it) to interact more with the audience using multimedia, art and poetry as part of his performances. Very cool. And we have a lot lot more! Lot lot means news, a quiz, a visit from an odd friend and Mikie goes to the amusement park! We sure hope it’s amusing! Just click the little play arrow to find out!

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Join us as we speak with concert pianist Stephen Cook. Along with being a wonderful player, he is bringing back the old-school piano recital (as Franz Liszt, inventor of the form, would have done it) to interact more with the audience using multimedia, art and poetry as part of his performances. Very cool. And we have a lot lot more! Lot lot means news, a quiz, a visit from an odd friend and Mikie goes to the amusement park! We sure hope it’s amusing! Just click the little play arrow to find out!

Horace Silver

From KUT | Part of the KUTX Liner Notes series | 03:00

Horace Silver's powerful and transcendent musical pieces pushed him beyond the label of jazz pianist. His specific composing and instrumentation of his quintet, created the unique sound that combined rhythm-and blues and gospel music with jazz known as "Hard Bop."

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Horace_silver2_small He was known for his straight forward sound and his songs that drew their meaning from his personal experiences. It's this style of composing that helped him respond to the social and cultural upheavals of the 60's and 70's with records such as "United States of Mind" and "The Music of the Spheres."  Listen for a moment as Rabbi Neil discusses what lies behind the orchestral collaboration and meaningful simplicity of Silver's music. 

#50 - The Loneliest Creature on Earth

From HowSound | 17:06

Lilly Sullivan relates the curious tale of "52 Hertz," the whale who sings at the "wrong" frequency.

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Some solutions to audio problems are easy.

Got hum from a refrigerator in your tape? Piece of cake. Run a notch filter at 60hz.

If your tape is hissy, throw a high-cut filter on the file.

Someone pops a "p", cut it close and, maybe, roll off the low end. The p-pop is likely to disappear.

But, what if you have a recording that is well-recorded but you can't hear it. I know. Sounds like an oxymoron right? But that was Lilly Sullivan's problem.

Lilly was a student at the Spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop and she produced a story about a whale that sings at an unusual frequency -- 52 Hertz. In fact, that's the whale's nickname.

Lilly obtained a recording of "52 Hertz" from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and it's a perfectly fine recording. But, the frequency the whale sings at is too low for most audio speakers. (It's about as low as the keys on the far left of a piano.) In other words, if you listen to the recording on, say, your built-in computer speakers, you may not be able to hear it. The speakers, to put it briefly, don't go that low.

Well, how do you fix that? How do you produce a radio story about a sound that most radio's can't reproduce? Well, you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out.

And, I should mention, aside from this arcane audio problem, the story of the whale is a humdinger. I'm certain you'll love it. Lilly did a great job.

Now, go hook up your best speakers and have a listen.

Cheers, Rob

Bonjour Chanson Series 12, Episode59

From Charles Spira | Part of the Bonjour Chanson Series 12 series | 28:11

Great new French language songs rub shoulders with well-established ones in this episode of "Bonjour Chanson" and they mutually enhance each other. You absolutely do not need French language skills to enjoy this program.

Jacques_prevert_small The most recent song in this episode of "Bonjour Chanson" appeared in 2013, the earliest ones in 1955. They all shine with their own color of light.  We tell you about the authors and their song in English.  Here is the line-up:
Babx,(France), Suzanne aux Yeux Noirs
Circus,(France),  L'Amour Suicide
Serge Gainsbourg,(France), La Chanson de Prévert
Edith Piaf,(France), Le Chemin des Forains
Georges Brassens,(France), Chanson Pour L'Auvergnat)
Mademoiselle K + Zazie,(France) Me Taire Te Plaire
 

How Are You Who You Are?

From Eric Winick | 21:13

A disinhibited love story.

62003_small In 1995, Douglas A. Nadeau of Marblehead, Massachusetts underwent a pallidotomy at Mass. General Hospital, an operation designed to eradicate neurons in his brain that no longer responded to dopamine, the naturally-created chemical that facilitates movement. Nine years earlier, while on a business trip, Doug had been bitten by an insect and developed strange Parkinsonian symptoms, such as the inability to keep his eyes open while talking. These caused numerous problems for Doug, a high-powered corporate lawyer in Boston. Over time, the symptoms worsened until Doug lost his mobility at night and was reduced to a hospital bed. Following the procedure, in which Doug practically walked off the operating table, he found he was unable to inhibit certain antisocial tendencies that, prior to the surgery, he'd kept repressed. To make matters worse, his surgery turned out to be a failure, and his symptoms returned one by one. The next nine years tested the boundaries and limits of love, marriage, and tolerance, both within the family and in the Nadeaus' wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

Yellowstone Geysers

From Hearing Voices | Part of the Wandering Jew stories series | 04:50

The Park?s Geyser Guy takes us on a tour.

Bglcgeyser_small More than two million people each year visit Yellowstone; it's America's first and most famous national park. The main attraction are the geysers and hot springs. There are 120+ of these thermal features, Old Faithful being the most popular. For 26 years, Rick Hutchinson was known simply as 'the geyser guy' at Yellowstone. He was a geologist, a naturalist, and the world's foremost authority on geysers. He died in 1997, in an avalance while skiing t check some backcoutry geysers. In 1996 producer Barrett Golding went on a tour with Rick Hutchinson through Yellowstone's geyser basins.