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Thursday February 16, 2017
Analog Resistance
In the Soviet Union during the 1960s, young iconoclasts waged a musical battle against the banality of state-sanctioned culture. Subversive poet/musicians known as "Bards" were recorded at secret house concerts, and reel-to-reel audio tapes shared through a clandestine network. Simon Nakonechny unspools the little-known phenomenon of Magnitizdat, and ponders its parallels to forms of cultural dissidence in Russia today.
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Thursday July 27, 2017
The Wire: The birth of the synthesizer and new ways of thinking about sound
Scientists like Helmholtz and Hertz explored the electrical essence of sound waves. Inventors like Canadian physicist Hugh LeCaine and Russian spy Leon Theremin extended that exploration to a new breed of electronic instruments. But it wasn't until Bob Moog came along and invented the synthesizer that the sound of electricity started to become a household sound in the music of rock bands. Featuring one of the final interviews conducted with Bob Moog before he died in 2005.
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Wednesday July 26, 2017
World on fire: What wildfires teach us about living in the forest and a challenging climate
They're bigger, faster and hotter than before, torching more of our world: Wildfires, like those now ravaging the interior of British Columbia, the one that ripped through Fort McMurray last year, or through Slave Lake in 2011, levelling a third of that community. What's fuelling this increase in fire power? Adrienne Lamb explores the factors altering how we have to live with wildfire. New technology and new ways to think about fire and its behaviour could save lives.
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