if I was a plant I’d be fit as a fiddle
February 15th, 2008
I heard this great podcast this morning from WNYC public radio’s Radiolab, which seems to be a sort of hodge-podge, documentary-style radio show that airs intermittently. Their main page is here, and their blog post that I got this mp3 from is here. I’ve taken the mp3 and trimmed it down to just the content and end credit so it doesn’t have any of the radio show bits at the beginning…
It’s by Sherre DeLys, an Australian artist and sound designer, and it’s called "If". I found it weirdly compelling, very moving, sort of like a hypnotic lyrical story. Joshgranger.com is the perfect place for me to be able to post this kind of stuff, because this isn’t anything I’d put on a mix for anyone, and it’s too involved to be the kind of link I’d e-mail around…but it’s definitely a fascinating piece and worth hearing…
It’s about 7 minutes long, so if you want to listen to it later I’m adding a download link under the player…
[audio:IF.mp3]
I listen to Radiolab quite a lot. I’ve recently started uploading the podcasts into my ipod. They recently had a great show about the melodic qualities in our speaking voices and how these unintentional vocal stylings get trapped in our brains as songs. Very cool.
Yeah, I’m gonna keep checking it out…I can’t rememeber how I got to the site in the first place (from This American Life maybe?) but I really like their style…