Resharing Continuous Wave from last week for those who missed it. Though, from the response, it seems like many have not. @bartona104.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/sound-is-a... Also, go listen to the pieces from @99pi.org & @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social. They will make your life better!

Sound is a Time Machine

Filmmaker and sound designer Garrett Tiedemann became enchanted by the cinematic capacity of audio. He worries that podcasting is abandoning its world-building superpower for nothing in return.

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This new show from Sony happens to be one I handled back at Campside & the amazing Yi-Wen brought it home for this release. Features a lot of original music that I wrote for the series, along with the theme, which I was especially proud of figuring out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Binge Cases: What She Buried

True Crime Podcast · Weekly Series · Seven years ago, journalist Justine van der Leun received a letter that would change her life. The sender was a woman named Kwaneta Harris, who was incarcerated at...

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Anyway, read @whitewhalepod.bsky.social and support more first-person writing from audio producers if you can! continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/sound-is-a...

Sound is a Time Machine

Filmmaker and sound designer Garrett Tiedemann became enchanted by the cinematic capacity of audio. He worries that podcasting is abandoning its world-building superpower for nothing in return.

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"The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do…Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do." — Jack Gould, NYT, 1952. We've been trying, Jack!

Had the pleasure of writing something for Continuous Wave from @bartona104.bsky.social and it’s out today. Check it out if you have the time and subscribe to her amazing newsletter if you have not already! She is doing amazing work.

Julia Barton@bartona104.bsky.social · last mo.

Readers of Continuous Wave are the best! They are supporting a series of essays about audio craft and what the future needs to know about our work. Starting today w/ @whitewhalepod.bsky.social : continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/sound-is-a...

And like that the band This Line have produced a remix of my composition UFO. Take a listen on @bandcamp.com, it's pretty great. Good to have something new from This Line as well as it has been a number of years. #ufo #newmusic #abstractart #remix americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/track/ufo-so...

UFO (South Beach Dub Remix), by This Line

track by This Line

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It's been a long time since I've released standalone music. But, today brought something unexpected and new. Take a listen at @bandcamp.com #ufo #newmusic #abstractart americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/track/ufo

UFO, by Garrett D. Tiedemann

track by Garrett D. Tiedemann

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A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Ballad of the Radio Feature

A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature.

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"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in." Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:

Ken Casey: ‘I’m Not Going to Shut Up’

A conversation with the Dropkick Murphys front man about punk, politics, and Donald Trump

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At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams. Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/

35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l... Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤

35 Years Later: Gremlins 2: The New Batch Remains One of the Most Audacious Sequels Ever

"If you want to find something weird, you have to go downtown."

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I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...

Go to a Steampunk Radio Museum 📻

A shrine filled with ancient audio gear will do you good. Wireless museums, which are scattered around the US and many other countries, are filled with restored and cleaned-up gear going back to the d...

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governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.

“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”

Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies

The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.

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"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin

𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷@jastuart68.bsky.social · last yr.

George Clooney just reminded us on CNN with Good Night, and Good Luck that history has a way of coming back. That montage at the end? Damn chilling and so damn real. If you didn’t get a chance to see it here’s the montage:

there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.

On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Landscape With Figure

A documentary about World War Two's finest British poet, Keith Douglas, who was killed in action with the Sherwood Rangers in Normandy three days after the D-Day landings. Presented by Sean Street, wi

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Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social

Shahana Hanif@shahanafrombk.bsky.social · last yr.

🎸 No, I won't back down! 🎸 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.

Opinion | Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling

Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.

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“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice” If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?

Anne Billson@annebillson.bsky.social · last yr.

AI is coming for your job.

“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies

How the independent movie publication Screen Slate became indispensable—while defining what makes a good website in 2025.

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“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social

Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion Closet

The ritual has become part of the fabric of modern cinephilia over the past decade and a half.

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“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller” A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com! www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

My family’s escape from the Nazis — and the terrible secret I discovered

Joe Dunthorne’s fascinating podcast on BBC Sounds tells how the novelist learnt that his family’s stories of their flight from Germany hid a betrayal

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

I remember this – hit me like a ton of bricks I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie

Tom Heintjes@hogansalley.bsky.social · last yr.

In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

In honor of Lincoln Center doing a weeklong dive into Jordan Peele's US, here's the Black Man Talk Steven Boone and I did on US when it came out. If you liked the SINNERS talk I did with @812filmreviews.com, you'll enjoy this. bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...

Black Man Talk: Us: Stunning With Scissors

by Odie "Od ienator" Hender son and Steven Boone   (The following is a conversation between Big Media Vandalism founder Steven Boone a...

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FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · last yr.

NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center is celebrating Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror with a weeklong event of talks and double features - including never-before-seen 35mm presentations of US.

Kids, Grandpa Tobias is here to tell you about a time when lining up to see 35mm prints was called “going to the movies.”

FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · last yr.

NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center is celebrating Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror with a weeklong event of talks and double features - including never-before-seen 35mm presentations of US.