Critical Listening
A conversation with Liz Pelly and Max Alper about Why Sound Matters
My new book Why Sound Matters is out this week (you can read an excerpt here). Liz Pelly and Max Alper invited me to talk about it with them on their excellent podcast series Critical Listening. The episode is available now wherever you get your podcasts, with one crucial exception (you guessed it!). And if you subscribe to the Critical Listening Patreon, you’ll find a bonus bit with me dishing about aspects of the Cambridge/Boston music scene.
Listening to: Širom, In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper
Cooking: toasting, rather, with Medronho brought back from a visit to Lisbon - cheers!
This was a great, freewheeling conversation -- esp love the bit about the writing gig with Pulse as an excuse to acquire expensive New music CDs.... Any more signed copies of the book for potential paid subscribers?
well, I couldn't find my original comments because Substack is such a mess, but I did read the intro on Amazon. I am intrigued, especially since I used to attend Passim in the middle 1970s in Boston. I saw, among others, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee there. I have some of my own not-so-radical ideas about sound and methods of recording jazz, though they seem radical in such a sterile recording environment. I will look into this a bit more when I can. Thanks for tolerating my crankiness, which is based on the continued descent of the recording art into the equivalent of ultra-processed food.