Latest Show: Digital Media Insider Podcast 26: One Glorious Note
In many ways, music technology has become a numbers game. Today's digital instruments are often sold on specs, not sound. In this episode, the Fat Man goes back to basics, gleefully playing everything from an ancient test-tone generator to a spicy Excaliburrito to demonstrate that one glorious note may be all you need.
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We have three pieces this week that hover around the theme of finding your voice.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks to John Battelle about the corporate voice that Google has taken on. Moshe Cohen is a clown who performs using his voice but no words. In many of his missions, including Clowns Without Borders USA, he cheers people up but also leaves them with a deeper lesson. I've also remixed a piece by David Battino from the Digital Media Insider that looks at how much computer voices have improved. This is the last episode for 2006.
(DTF 11-27-2006: 25 minutes, 55 seconds)
Spencer Wells, a 33-year-old population geneticist, is collecting blood samples from thousands of men living in isolated tribes around the world and analyzing their DNA. In this O'Reilly ITConversations pick of the week, Wells answers questions about his quest. Spencer and his colleagues discovered that all humans alive today can be traced back to a small tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago.
