My Favorite Thing To Listen To
‘What music do you listen to?’
I get asked this question all the time.
And it stumps me every time.
Because the truth is, outside of deejaying or producing, I don’t really listen to music as much as you might expect. Unless it’s a newly released album that I’m playing into the ground non-stop, the rest of my listening time is usually dedicated to everything but music.
So what do I listen to?
1) Audiobooks
I love learning, but what I hate about sitting down, holding a book in my hands and reading it is its inherent inefficiency. It must be the Gen-Y in me that can’t handle its ‘single-task’ nature. So within the past few years I’ve started listening to audiobooks; while I’m driving, while I’m walking, while I’m standing in front of you pretending to be part of a conversation. Audiobooks are a great way to be learning ‘on-the-go’ and needless to say, much more efficient.
A popular source for audiobooks is Audible.com or you can even find them right on the iTunes Music Store
Some of my favorites include Malcolm Gladwell’s best-sellers ‘Blink‘ and ‘Outliers‘, anything by Seth Godin, and of course the classic ‘7 Habits Of Highly Effective People‘
There are plenty of fiction titles available too, but I stick to the non-fiction.
If I want a story, I’ll go watch a movie.
2) TWIT
You can find many music podcasts online (especially this great one), but due to the still-grey-area online music licensing conditions, the majority of podcasts produced are ‘talk-based.’
Being the geek that I am, I am a devoted follower of the TWIT Network — yes I even drove an hour by myself to visit their studio while I was in San Francisco.
Founded by and primarily hosted by tech veteran Leo Laporte, TWIT produces a variety of weekly and daily podcasts aimed at different areas of the tech community.
If you’re so inclined you can even watch them live, or download the TWIT iPhone app.
My weekly listening programming (dependent on time) often includes:
- Tech News Today
- Macbreak Weekly
- This Week In Tech
- This Week In Google
- net@night
See?… I don’t call myself a geek for nothing.
3) Radiolab
Unquestionably, aside from a really good album, my most favorite thing to listen to is a show called Radiolab
Radiolab is broadcasted on 300 radio stations across the world but also available as a podcast from their website. I’m not even sure exactly how to describe it so I’ll go ahead and steal a quote from their site:
Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow. Bring your curiosity, and we’ll feed it with possibility.
Besides being extremely fascinating and informative, each episode is incredibly well-produced. As someone who has a lot experience editing and manipulating audio, I am consistently impressed with the amount of detail and creativity that is applied to the production of every show.
You can learn a ton from any given show, but a few episodes that stick out to me are:
- ‘Words‘
- ‘Time‘
- ‘Stochasticity‘
- ‘Animal Minds‘
- ‘Musical Language‘
Today’s Lesson
It’s true that music is pretty much my life. But outside of music, my life seems to be about learning.
And learning about life is a beat that never ends…
(see what I did there?.. me neither.)
November 12th, 2020 at 1:17 am
I’m gone to convey my little brother, that he should also go to
see this blog on regular basis to obtain updated from most
recent information.
December 15th, 2020 at 3:17 am
way. Handwritten book
December 15th, 2020 at 8:53 am
Duke de Montosier
December 15th, 2020 at 10:10 am
bride, Julie d’Angenne.
December 15th, 2020 at 9:55 pm
and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts
December 16th, 2020 at 2:28 am
then only a few have reached us
December 18th, 2020 at 7:48 pm
number of surviving European
December 19th, 2020 at 5:39 pm
Since the era of Charlemagne
December 22nd, 2020 at 7:16 am
manuscripts underwent in the Middle
January 2nd, 2021 at 7:58 am
, text and illustrations to which
January 8th, 2021 at 8:03 am
scroll. Go to Code Form
January 9th, 2021 at 5:56 pm
the spread of parchment.
January 11th, 2021 at 2:30 pm
ancient and medieval Latin,
February 8th, 2021 at 5:02 pm
books in ancient times was papyrus
February 26th, 2021 at 4:14 am
handwritten books were made,
March 18th, 2021 at 3:13 am
55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian
March 21st, 2021 at 11:39 am
Century to a kind of destruction:
April 12th, 2021 at 2:20 am
55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian
August 7th, 2021 at 7:54 am
Since the era of Charlemagne
August 8th, 2021 at 11:07 pm
(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in
September 18th, 2021 at 9:49 pm
XVII century was Nicholas Jarry [fr].
September 23rd, 2021 at 4:38 am
Since the era of Charlemagne
October 3rd, 2021 at 9:44 am
(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in