A podcast about music and all the ways it fights for our attention

Loudness

Recorded music hasn't always been as loud as it is today. This episode looks at how technology has affected how our music sounds, the loudness wars, and why we tend to perceive louder as better.


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Where Were You While We Were Getting Loud?

Loudness is a podcast about all the ways that music and the forces that shape it have tried to capture our attention over time. Combining elements of history, culture studies, psychology, and music theory, the show tries to shed light on why we care at all about any of the music we hear.

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Where Were You While We Were Getting Loud?

This Is Loudness