Centuries of Sound | |
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Presentation | |
Hosted by | James Errington |
Genre | History of recorded sound, Music podcast, Sound collage |
Language | English |
Production | |
No. of episodes | 51 |
Publication | |
Original release | January 1, 2017 |
Cited for | Bronze Bullseye Award, British Podcast Awards 2019 |
Centuries of Sound is a series of mixes and podcasts presenting a history of recorded sound, [1] produced independently by Cambridge-based sound artist [2] James Errington. [3] [4] Each mix presents sounds recorded in a single year, and episodes are released monthly, in chronological order. [5] Errington also presents a monthly show of the same name on Cambridge 105 Radio in which he discusses the music of a year with a guest. [6] Centuries of Sound has been reviewed by multiple publications [2] [5] [7] and received a British Podcast Award in 2019. [8]
Errington researched and sourced music from a number of sources, including Archive.org, Rate Your Music and Acclaimed Music. [4] The first mixes include early sound recordings made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860, and the earliest episodes are shorter and cover multiple years, due to a lack of surviving recordings. [5] Each mix contains not just music but layered speech and other sounds. [9] Contemporary "preview" mixes were also posted for the years 2016 to 2019 [10] and there are annual Christmas and Halloween episodes covering particular eras. [11]
Notable individual episodes include the 1927 mix, reviewed in The New Yorker, [3] the 1901 mix, which was one of Indiewire's 50 best podcast episodes of 2018, [12] the 1931 mix, which was podcast of the week in The Financial Times, [2] the 1943 mix, reviewed by Cory Doctorow, [11] and the 2016 mix, covered in Hyperallergic. [4] Centuries of Sound received a bronze Bullseye Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. [8]
Centuries of Sound | |
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Presentation | |
Hosted by | James Errington |
Genre | History of recorded sound, Music podcast, Sound collage |
Language | English |
Production | |
No. of episodes | 51 |
Publication | |
Original release | January 1, 2017 |
Cited for | Bronze Bullseye Award, British Podcast Awards 2019 |
Centuries of Sound is a series of mixes and podcasts presenting a history of recorded sound, [1] produced independently by Cambridge-based sound artist [2] James Errington. [3] [4] Each mix presents sounds recorded in a single year, and episodes are released monthly, in chronological order. [5] Errington also presents a monthly show of the same name on Cambridge 105 Radio in which he discusses the music of a year with a guest. [6] Centuries of Sound has been reviewed by multiple publications [2] [5] [7] and received a British Podcast Award in 2019. [8]
Errington researched and sourced music from a number of sources, including Archive.org, Rate Your Music and Acclaimed Music. [4] The first mixes include early sound recordings made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860, and the earliest episodes are shorter and cover multiple years, due to a lack of surviving recordings. [5] Each mix contains not just music but layered speech and other sounds. [9] Contemporary "preview" mixes were also posted for the years 2016 to 2019 [10] and there are annual Christmas and Halloween episodes covering particular eras. [11]
Notable individual episodes include the 1927 mix, reviewed in The New Yorker, [3] the 1901 mix, which was one of Indiewire's 50 best podcast episodes of 2018, [12] the 1931 mix, which was podcast of the week in The Financial Times, [2] the 1943 mix, reviewed by Cory Doctorow, [11] and the 2016 mix, covered in Hyperallergic. [4] Centuries of Sound received a bronze Bullseye Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. [8]