I Like The Sound

This week, we hear what The Big Bang sounded like, investigate the world’s greatest echo chambers, and consider the impact Space Invaders had on video game music. 

We hear from musicians Kathy Lowe and Martin Austwick (AKA Pale Bird) about their experiences of using different types of reverb. 

Kathy’s website: https://www.kathylowemusic.com/

Pale Bird: https://palebird.bandcamp.com/

Source material for this week’s episode:

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Gods

World’s Longest Duration Echo: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-world-longest-duration-echo-man-made.html

The Sound Of The Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpchtF6KnMg

Sonic Wonderland: https://soundcloud.com/sonicwonderland/sonic-wonderland-worlds

I Am Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

The World’s Weirdest Echos And Where To Hear Them: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/worlds-weirdest-echoes-where-hear-them-180963307/

Andrew Schartmann - Maestro Mario: How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art (Thought Catalog, 2013): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maestro-Mario-Nintendo-Transformed-Videogame/dp/B00M3AJJWA 

Space Invaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders

Music by Lee Rosevere: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/

Further details about Frank Burton:

Frank’s website: https://www.frankburton.co.uk/ (Visit for more details about Frank’s books, A History of Sarcasm, One Hundred, and Everything I Am, plus the video series The Ragbag Rambler.)

Ragbag podcast: https://shows.acast.com/5b93ef1248d0840933a8f131

Frank’s email: [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @ragbagpresents

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Welcome to the first ever I Like The Sound podcast, written, presented and produced by Frank Burton.

In this episode, we learn about the importance of sound in food, the meaning of ‘glossolalia’ and the origins of the Crazy Frog noise.

Manda Rin from Bis tells us about how much she enjoys hearing seagulls. Sheetal Singh, AKA Forest Bees, talks about how her children respond to sounds that they like.

Check out Bis here: https://bisnation.com/

Forest Bees on Bandcamp: https://forestbees.bandcamp.com/album/forest-bees

Source material for this week’s episode:

Charles Spence, Eating with our ears: Assessing the importance of the sounds of consumption to our perception and enjoyment of multisensory flavour experiences: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278716173_Eating_with_our_ears_Assessing_the_importance_of_the_sounds_of_consumption_to_our_perception_and_enjoyment_of_multisensory_flavour_experiences

Christian Bök on Ubuweb: http://ubu-mirror.ch/sound/bok.html

Adriano Celentano – Prisencolinensinainciusol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

Glosollalia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues

Crazy Frog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog

Music by Lee Rosevere: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/

Further details about Frank Burton:

Frank’s website: https://www.frankburton.co.uk/ (Visit for more details about Frank’s books, A History of Sarcasm, One Hundred, and Everything I Am, plus the video series The Ragbag Rambler.)

Frank’s email: [email protected]

Ragbag podcast: https://shows.acast.com/5b93ef1248d0840933a8f131

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