The Buzzer: Are there secret spy messages on the radio?
Since World War I, countries around the world have been broadcasting mysterious numerical messages via shortwave radio. Though concrete evidence is hard to come by, the general consensus is that these...
21 Jul 202131min
Stay Tuned: The new voices of the Looney Tunes
Nearly a century after they first appeared, the Looney Tunes are back in an all-new series. To bring this iconic franchise into the present, the creators are looking to its past, taking it back to the...
7 Jul 202125min
Inside the Foley Prop Room: Frozen, Jurassic Park & more
In part 2 of our exploration of Foley, the Warner Brothers Foley team takes us into the all-important prop room. Along the way, they demonstrate how they make the sounds for flapping birds, breaking b...
23 Jun 202121min
The Art of Foley: Bringing Slimer & Batman to life
When it comes to film sound, "Foley Artist" might be the most important job you've never heard of. These performers record custom, synchronized sound effects to create the sounds for characters' foots...
9 Jun 202120min
Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound
In the late 80s, a small French company found a way to pair analog film with pristine digital audio. But getting their system into theaters would involve a long legal battle, hiding out in a Vegas bat...
26 Mai 202125min
Auditory Icons: Credit card beeps to driverless car melodies
We live in a designed world, and alert tones are no exception. Every beep and ping that your phone or laptop makes probably went through multiple rounds of revisions and approvals. So what separates a...
19 Mai 202116min
Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes
There are a few specific chord progressions that show up again and again in popular music. Across hundreds of hit songs, the same basic musical formulas have been used by artists ranging from Lynyrd S...
12 Mai 202125min
SM7: The mic that shaped sound and culture
Since their founding almost a century ago, Shure has created some of the most iconic microphones ever made. In this episode, we worked with Shure to tell the story of the SM7 dynamic microphone: from ...
28 Apr 202122min
