You can hear our programs on these
Upcoming Broadcasts:
September 29, 2008 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:
HARK!
the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.
The Isle is full of noyses,sounds, and sweet aires, that give delight and hurt not:
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine eares; and sometime voices,
That if I had then wak’d after long sleepe will make me sleepe again…
(Caliban. The Tempest)
Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?
Fans of THE WIRE series please take note:
a new series from the Peabody-award-winning producers of The Wire begins September 6.2008
on CBC Radio Inside the Music:
-music and human consciousness-
Why have humans evolved to be hard-wired for music?
The Nerve runs on Radio Two on Saturdays at 1:30 in Newfoundland (noon in Canada)
starting on Saturday Sep 6 with repeat on Radio One at 9.30 pm (8:00 upalong) the next day (Sunday).
Sep 6/7: Episode One (Music and the Brain)
Sep 13/14: Episode Two (Music and Evolution)
Sep 20/21: Episode Three (Music and War)
Sep 27/28: Episode Four (Music and Spirituality)
Oct 4/5: Episode Five (Music and Identity)
Oct 11/12: Episode Six (Music and Emotion)
September, 2006 across Canada on on CBC Radio Inside the Music:
Sunday, September 14 (Part One) Sunday, September 21 (Part Two)
1.30pm (noon in Canada) on Radio 2]
A two-hour documentary portrait of the great Canadian composer, poet and artist Joni Mitchell
From June 25, 2008 Sundays at 12.30 (midnight upalong in Canada) hear:
The Wire
(what electricity did to music)
If you missed the original broadcasts of this Prix Italia and Peabody Award-winning series you can catch it this summer on CBC Radio One's
And the Winner Is
But... don't be mislead by the CBC's "Winner Is" website which offers podcast downloads of the episodes each week. The podcasts offered are not complete episodes of the original series. They are 20-minute re-cut excerpts, along with a commercial for some printing company. The original prroducers (Paolo Pietropaolo, Jowi Taylor, Chris Brookes) were not involved in this re-cut.
June 25 - Episode 1, "Hallo, Hallo: Recording, Broadcasting and the Microphone"
July 2 - Episode 2, "The Change of the Sound: Multitracking and the Tape Machine" -- To hear the entire 53-minute episode #2 sans commercials click HERE.
July 9 - Episode 3, "Going Electric: The Story of the Electric Guitar"
July 16 - Episode 4, "Good Vibrations: Electronic Sounds and Synthesizers"
July 23 - Episode 5, "The Sound Around: Background listening and Ambient music"
July 30 - Episode 6, "Welcome to the Machine: Remixing, Sequencing and the Drum Machine"
August 6 - Episode 7, "The Wheels of Steel: The Art of Turntablism"
August 13 - : Episode 8, "The Digital Democracy of Sound: Sampling, File Sharing and the Future of Music"
Feb 22, 2008 across the USA on Soundprint
The story of a shipwreck that changed a life
Sundays January 13 to March 2, 2008 across Canada on
CBC Radio INSIDE THE MUSIC
also nightly January 2-11, 2008 on
CBC Radio TONIC
In Memoriam Oscar Peterson 1925-2007
In 1994 Chris Brookes produced this 7-hour radio biography of the great jazz pianist who died on Christmas Eve..
This winter CBC rebroadcasts all 7 original episodes of ABOUT OSCAR,
plus a new 8th episode: About Oscar's Legacy
"I believe in the jazz medium, but selfishly speaking i believe in the piano. It was here before any of us were here, and it'll be here long after we're all gone. Its the instrument that I have to use to communicate my true feelings. And thats what I live for."
(Oscar Peterson, 2000)
We'll miss you, Oscar.
-December 21, 2007 across the USA on Soundprint
Tag along with the wild and wooly practitioners of this old
winter solstice custom in Newfoundland, Ireland and Philadelphia
December 20, 2007 on Radio Netherlands :
Tag along with the wild and wooly practitioners of this old
winter solstice custom in Newfoundland, Ireland and Philadelphia
November 1, 2007 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS and Sirius satellite radio:
A modern retelling of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abatis
St Brendan's 6th-century journey in search of the Promised Land.
An exercise in "radio archaeology'"
using modern recording equipment and the ideas of Marcel Proust
September 13, 2007 across the USA on MARKETPLACE:
Meet the Ghents
A modern working family, trying to make a living without losing what they value the most.
Part of the Homelands Productions series WORKING,
intimate profiles of workers in the global economy
Beginning August 17, 2007 on elected stations across the USA:
part of Stories from the Heart of the Land
produced by Atlantic Public Media
August 10, 2007 across the USA on Soundprint
A day in the life of St. John's, Newfoundland
on the centenary of the Birth of Radio
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