In Joanne Rosser “Papermaker” podcast you can hear every sound in the broadcast about the steps she takes her paper making process. The story begins with her introduction, and you can hear the door open and close and afterwards they begin to walk upstairs. You can then hear her began to tear paper and fill the blender with water and then place the paper in the water as she turns the blender on. Although the blender sound is loud at first and you suddenly hear it goes to the background of the blender in the background. You know at that time, she began creating the pulp for the paper. You eventually hear her pressing the paper and then cutting the paper multiple times with a paper cutting. You can hear each cut in detail.
Through all that is going on, you can clearly hear her speak clearly over the process of her making paper to make a card. You can hear the sound engineer mix the sound of her cutting the paper in-between her conversation at various points of her speaking. I learned that layer sound in different segments of the recording help to make you unpredictable to the listener. The sound is layered in a way that it never distorts the sound from her speech and the paper making process.
After listening to the TEDRadio Hour, I can hear a sudden change of pace with the music, but then the sound drops out entirely to cue the reading of a transition that the story that has been introduced is about to start.
I was surprised to hear and learn about the often used “The Man and His Scream” from The Wilhelmey Sound video. I did not realize the same sound has been used in so many movies since 1953 up until current times in a Star Wars movie made in 1999. I learned that if a sound is recorded the right way, it can be used repeatedly to achieve the same goal.
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour
The story begins with an introduction to the listener, and you can hear the of a banjo playing. The background goes silent and then Jordie Poncy, the storyteller, comes on and began to speak. The storyteller is speaking as if he is in an audience and from the sound of it his candence is of a comedian telling jokes. He is telling the true story of going to the doctor and being diagnosed with cancer and how he informs his family about it. He is telling the story with humor, and you can hear the audience laughing. You only hear him and the audience when they laugh, otherwise it is complete silence. He is telling a sad story but speaking more dismissive instead of telling a melancholy story. This story also sounds like a TedTalk where someone stands in front of an audience to provided information on a certain subject matter. The audience gets loud when he tells them that he was happy to be telling a Moth story and then it goes back to only hearing him tell his story about his fight against cancer. He tells the audience he is a year past the deadline and then you hear the audience roar.
At the end of his story, he says, “thank you” and the audience roars again, but this time with clapping. Immediately the original announcer comes back on, and the original music starts playing again. The announcer asks Jordy and quick question, and it sound goes back to silence, and you can only hear Jordy’s response. As soon as he finishes his answer, the sound comes back on, and the announcer informs the listener that Jordy will come on at various point of the broadcast.
The way the broadcast is arranged, it appears as if Jordy is talking to only you. The silence and no music playing tend to lead you to believe that you are sitting in the audience listening to Jordy tell the store about his cancer diagnosis. The bouncing back and forth from Jordy’s speaking and the audience’s reaction is layered in format as to where a DJ would mix a song to another song. The way the sound is presented is attention getting and denotes a serious vibe, but the storyteller is telling a serious story with a lighthearted cadence.
