Podcast Notes: Congo, Loudness Wars and Throwing Yourself at Men
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- Kenyan Blogger Daudi Were of spoke to us about the recent violence (the interview is short because of a poor mobile connection - please visit his blog for more information)
- Award winning photographer and tells us about living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Thanks Graham for the tip)
- Grammy Winning record producer/mixer and why lack of dynamic range is bad for music. Thanks to for permission to podcast a clip of his music - which is, we should stress, filled with dynamic range. (Thanks to Vince for the tip!)
- Lilly McElroy an artist
- Nathalie of Philobiblon (WARNING contains a mildly rude word if that sort of thing upsets you)
- Professor Rob Fergus, part of a team lead by Antonio Torralba that developed the , explained it to us
- And Jamillah Knowles with a report on
As an added treat the video below is by and very clearly illustrates their side of the "Loudness War".
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