Presented by Shawn Klein
Airs The 4th Friday of the month at 17:30 UTC, repeated Saturday at 06:30 UTC and Monday at 16:30 UTC
A half-hour monthly show featuring interesting things and curiosities Shawn has found on the Internet, touching on a variety of subjects. Humanity’s first recordings of its own voice in the 1850s, the US government bouncing shortwave signals off the moon, an old world-war II era film about the use of radio during the war, auditory illusions, alternate musical scales, what noise does an ostrich make? And other unusual and rare sounds, These and much more are fair game on Odds and Sods.
This month: October and the spooky season rolls around again, and I hear that same old familiar wolf howl, but it's not in an old movie, it's in a brand new show, movie, cartoon or commercial. And there's that scream we've heard so many times before. We're talking about cliche sound effects this month. We'll hear about the loon, and why Hollywood loves it's creepy call and puts it in places a common loon has no business being, simply because it gives the scene a spooky or foreboding feel. Then we'll get into some more Common Film Sound Effects: Clichés and Overused. Finally, we'll hear all those devices they came up with to add sound to silent movies in theaters and on old time radio, and how 1 man was called in to use the ones in his collection to make a scene from Killers of the Flower Moon more authentic.
External links.
Valentino's Wolf Howls SFX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egarWJUhg4
2 famous classic wolf howls sound effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWMnJDS3F0
Valentino Coyote Howl SFX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOoQBWE7VJ4
This month: one more Microtonal show, but not a repeat, here's something new. This album should NOT work (or sound this good!) · Microtonal guitar Brendan Byrnes “Astral Bloom”. Youtube channel Make Weird Music Interviews Brendan Byrnes about his new microtonal album with plenty of musical nerdery to satisfy your inner tuning geek.
This month we continue where we left off back in June, with the repeat of May 2019's episode on xenharmonic/microtonal music, including examples of Arabic maqams or scales in their 24 tone system.
This month, more music and a repeat, as we hear my January 2019 show about xenharmonic music... that is, music not in our conventional western 12-tone system, and in this case particularly, in new systems the modern xenharmonic (or microtonal) community of composers is playing in.
This month... More auditory illusions? Yes, it's the unexpected part 3 of this little series on auditory illusions we've been listening through the past few months, because the algorithm gave me this one while I was washing dishes... but this one's different. It's all about illusions used in music, particularly classical music. This month's show also goes good with May 25th's episode of The Global Classical Hour as I'll be featuring 3 of the pieces from the 20th century Hungarian composer mentioned in this month's Odds and Sods, as György Ligeti loved using auditory illusions in his music. So buckle up for the next half hour, and join me on Sunday for the classical show if you need you some more György Ligeti!
External links:
David Bruce Composer on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DBruce
György Ligeti on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti
This month, more audible illusions. This month we go back to my May 2018 show on audible illusions, and revisit the laurel and yanny controversy among other things.
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone. This month is the first of 2 shows about auditory illusions. Next month will be a repeat of my May 2018 show taking you back to the days of Laurel and Yanny, but this month I'll play for you 1 single long video from 7 months ago by Youtuber Veritasium exploring some of the same illusions and a few new ones, and it starts with a trip to the great pipe organ at the Sidney Opera House. So get your headphones ready.
External links: all the resources are in the description here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn07AMCfaAI
This month: we continue comparing various periodicities in our universe. Color to sound, rhythm to harmony, and now we have the far slower rhythms of the orbits of planets converted to both harmony and rhythms we can hear, this is part 2 of that aspect.
External links:
System Sounds:
https://www.system-sounds.com
System Sounds Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOnxOJ0q03epTCbzwADIuA
Astronomy Sonification | Dr. Matt Russo:
https://www.astromattrusso.com
This month: we continue comparing various periodicities in our universe. Color to sound, rhythm to harmony, and now we have the far slower rhythms of the orbits of planets converted to both harmony and rhythms we can hear. We'll be hearing about Canadian physics lecturer, astrophysicist and musician Matt RuMatt Russo's efforts to do just that, and other methods he's used to sonify space for us.
External links:
System Sounds:
https://www.system-sounds.com
System Sounds Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOnxOJ0q03epTCbzwADIuA
Astronomy Sonification | Dr. Matt Russo:
https://www.astromattrusso.com
This month, 2 unrelated musical items to round out the Christmas season: The Unbelievable Story of the Carol of the Bells, which originally had nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas, and the famous cave in West Virginia that people have been playing like a giant musical instrument since the 50s, ringing the stalactites and stalagmites like giant bells or tuning forks.
This month, hear comes another classic episode. It's one that goes well with the last 2 months' installments. We continue talking about the various types of waves in terms of each other, but this classic episode from April 2019 points out how differently we perceive sound from light, as well as what sounds we might associate with colors. We hear a bit about how color works with your printer and computer screen, what a blind Youtuber thinks about colors, and how another blind person hears color mapped directly to an octave of sound, and how it makes his clothing choices quite odd indeed.