What makes a voice listenable? Are we looking to be soothed? How do the idioms of techno and jazz differently show up the nature of time? Does silence even exist?

This is a pretty whimsical conversation about the nature of sound. Professionally, I’ve dealt a lot in writing and comparatively little in voice, but I’m interested in its different characteristics - in the extemporaneous nature of spoken conversation, and the way paying attention to sound forces the listener into the present moment. You can’t skim listen to music. You pretty much have to trust that the people on the podcast will eventually get to a point that was worth hanging on for (or you don’t, and you’ll never know).

Michael is a percussionist and sound designer based in Berlin who lives and breathes this medium. Even so, at some point he had to resort to Bill Evans channeling God. Perhaps we can’t truly admit sound without experiencing something esoteric.

Recommend Michael for all your sound design needs - a versatile composer and overall joy to work with.

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