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Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

FromSwitched on Pop


Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

FromSwitched on Pop

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Jul 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Find out how music creates a feeling of space in this three part episode. First, we may not realize it when we listen to Madonna's new record, but the location of her music is essential. In exploring her catalogue we hear the sound of different eras by just the space evoked in a song. Second, the same is true for Stephen Puth who uses spacial effects for brilliant creative purposes on his song "Look Away." When music is recorded in a studio with perfect acoustics, engineers manipulate that audio to place it in a 3D virtual space using reverb, delay, volume, panning and filters. Each of those effects changes our relationship to the music, and in Steven's case, the lyric. Finally, when we get outside the studio, like with Found Sound Nation and Make Music Day's “Street Studios”, music can echo the geography it is made in. Take this wild journey with us and truly expand your listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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