Listening In

Listening In

Musings on Music and Technology from Gideon D'Arcangelo

  1. 04/07/2010

    Weekend America 2008.10.11 – Listening In on the Schooner Anne

    On April 23, 2007, Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad set out from New York harbor on an ambitious sailing voyage. Their goal was to sail for 1000 days without touching land, carrying all their provisions with them. Reid and Soanya set out to beat the world record of endurance sailing – sailing without resupply – [...]

    7 min

  2. 04/07/2010

    Weekend America 2008.08.02 – Listening In at the Paralympics

    Mary Stack is an amazing athlete who has followed her prowess as a lifter all the way to the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, representing the US proudly. I spent the day with her as she went through her workout routine at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. She let me in on her playlist [...]

    7 min

  3. 08/03/2008

    Weekend America 2008.05.08 – Listening In on the Space Shuttle

    Every morning on the Space Shuttle, a song is the first thing the astronauts hear. It is played by NASA Mission Control in Houston to rouse the astronauts from sleep. The songs are chosen for the astronauts by their friends and family, and played on days when they have a special job to do – [...]

    7 min

  4. 08/03/2008

    Studio 360 2008.04.11 – From Addis Ababa to Boston with Mulatu Astatke

    In this piece, we meet Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz. A pioneering ‘global citizen,’ Astatke became in 1959 the first African to ever attend the famous Berkelee College of Music in Boston. He played with Duke Ellington in the 70s and has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the US since Jim Jarmusch [...]

    8 min

  5. 08/03/2008

    Weekend America 2008.03.08 – Listening In in the O.R. with Dr. Atul Gawande

    Indie rocker Kim Deal from the Breeders crooned from the iPod docked in the operating room where Dr. Atul Gawande and his team were performing a thyroidectomy. Wearing something that looks like a shower cap, and booties over my shoes, I felt like another member of Dr. Gawande’s team, which is made up of several [...]

    7 min

  6. 03/18/2008

    Weekend America 2008.01.19 – Listening In with Daniel Libeskind

    Architect Daniel Libeskind listens to a solid block of uninterrupted music in the morning to start his day.  “It’s not something of a luxury, it’s almost a necessity.  And it’s not background,” says Libeskind.  “I don’t do it as the hustle bustle of domestic life and in the background there’s music, I sit down, when [...]

    8 min

  7. 12/05/2007

    Studio 360 2007.11.16 – Migrant Worker's Love Song

    I went to China to see what kind of musical culture I would find among the migrant workers there. I had heard that there is a floating population of over 100 million migrant workers there, mostly from the south and west, mostly coming to work construction jobs in the booming east coast cities. Every year, [...]

    8 min

  8. 12/05/2007

    Weekend America 2007.11.10 – Listening In on the Creative Process

    Visual artists listen to music in their studios to get their creative juices flowing, to lose themselves in their world, to focus their energies. Natalie Frank, a great young painter (a mere 27 years old!) let me into her listening process and her creative process in her studio. It turned out to be quite structured [...]

    9 min
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Musings on Music and Technology from Gideon D'Arcangelo

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  • Creator
    Listening In
  • Years Active
    2006 - 2010
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2006-2007
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