Reasonably Sound
We start with audio, but where we end up is anyone's guess.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2023
RM01: Slerd Speesh
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A quick rumination on why people slur their speech when they're drunk, and a little thinking on what it means to slur, and its place in popular culture.
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00:11:14 |
Fri 06 May 2016
32: Light Dinner Conversation
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This week, it’s the sounds that surround holiday gatherings and rituals. Mike tackles several sonic phenomena and how they will function during your Turkey …
00:15:45 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
31: I Nonlinear Vocalization. You Nonlinear Vocalization
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THIS WEEK IT’S ALL ABOUT SCREAMS (AAAAA!!!!) Horror and fear screams. It’s not just talking with some extra juice. There is much, much more at work. Physica…
00:35:04 |
Sat 24 Oct 2015
30: Bits and Chips
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It’s all about nostalgia and limitation as Mike chips away (ahhh?!?!?) at the world of chiptunes music. If you played video games years and years ago, you’l…
00:31:50 |
Thu 08 Oct 2015
29: Acoustic Body
It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of [our] own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he explores the work of corporeal sonification as…
00:21:24 |
Thu 01 Oct 2015
29: Acoustic Body
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It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of [our] own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he exp…
00:22:47 |
Sun 27 Sep 2015
28: HBD™
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Originally published September 17, 2015
It’s the birthday episode for Reasonably Sound! Celebrating 1 year, Mike dives into why he can’t lead us all in a r…
00:27:35 |
Thu 17 Sep 2015
27: Peace and White Noise
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Mike is on a brief vacation on Cape Cod. At the beach. Where he considers why the point of the beach isn't really the beach, but instead the strange draw of…
00:22:28 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
26: Little Night Muzak
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It's convention season and Mike is on the road for three weeks straight, spending a LOT of time in centers and major hotel chains. And he's noticed how much…
00:07:08 |
Sun 02 Aug 2015
25: Fetish Character
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Mike explores audience, taste, morality, subjectivity, commodity, and so much more in a pastiche of readings from Theodor W. Adorno, Gawker, Taylor Swift’s …
00:22:04 |
Sun 19 Jul 2015
24: KABOOM
Mike explores the sonic aspects of fireworks: What is an explosion, and why do they sound the way they do? These questions lead to a breakdown of combustion versus detonation; low explosives versus h…
00:25:02 |
Mon 06 Jul 2015
23: The Real Song of the Summer
It’s the ice cream truck jingle. Even Mike’s hated Mr. Softee one. Mike provides the secret origin of the jingle, touching on the Great Depression, the growth of the American middle class, the Good…
00:22:00 |
Mon 22 Jun 2015
22: Echoic Memory
Echoic memory, how it differs from other kinds of memory, and the definition of sound itself, all on this episode of Reasonably Sound. Plus: Jamiroquai.
00:21:39 |
Sun 07 Jun 2015
21: Road Trip
Mike and Molly (not the TV show) take a road trip and consider Spotify, MTV2, and how we discover music now. (Also: Cover versions, N.W.A., and the undeniable perfection of Pony.)
00:40:58 |
Mon 11 May 2015
20: The Drop
That part in dance music, where the music builds and builds and builds and BUILDS before the tension finally, FINALLY, gets relieved? That’s “the drop.” Mike talks about its origin, construction, a…
00:31:30 |
Mon 27 Apr 2015
19: Molly’s Misophonia
Misophonia is, literally, “the hatred of sound.” Molly Templeton has it, and talks to Mike about the noises that trigger it.
-- Molly Online --
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00:27:30 |
Mon 13 Apr 2015
18: Play It For All It’s Worth
How much is a song worth? How do you even calculate it? And what do DJ Shadow, Tom Waits, and the Wu-Tang Clan have to do with it? Mike Rugnetta answers these and other questions.
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00:29:23 |
Mon 30 Mar 2015
17: What Does the Universe Sound Like?
Mike explains how pigeon-lovers Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson found evidence to prove the Big Bang. Find out about hisses, #starstuff, photons, poop, and more to get a full picture of what the univ…
00:26:46 |
Mon 16 Mar 2015
16: Active Listening, Eavesdropping, and Surveillance
Mike navigates the streets, subways, and pizza shops of NYC, and as you listen, ponder whether listening to this episode makes you an active listener, an eavesdropper, or a spy.
00:58:25 |
Mon 02 Mar 2015
15: This Episode Has Subliminal Messages
On this installment of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta covers subliminal messages and their (lack of) effectiveness with help from BrainCraft’s Vanessa Hill. Chandler Bing is referenced.
-- Find Va…
00:38:18 |
Mon 16 Feb 2015
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