Tokyo school life episodes full#
Tokyo school life episodes series#

Tokyo school life episodes series#

The producer, musician, and sound designer Ian Coss (вЂњWays of Hearing,вЂќ вЂњOver the RoadвЂќ) describes this series as being about divorce itвЂ™s equally about love, family, and understanding. On a recent relisten, paying attention to the sound design (by Helena de Groot, John DeLore, and Hannis Brown, with mastering by Justin Shturtz), I realized the source of some of its magic: by flecking in hints of sound from daily life-wind chimes, piano, background conversation-the production locates the work more firmly in the real world, avoiding the preciousness that some literary readings can fall prey to while elevating the beauty even further. Its format lets you float from one element to another, largely unchaperoned but gently oriented-this season by the magazineвЂ™s new editor, Emily Stokes (formerly of The New Yorker).

Tokyo school life episodes full#

The podcastвЂ™s last full season was in 2019, and its return, this fall, had been eagerly anticipated ever since. ThereвЂ™s a reason that вЂњThe Paris Review PodcastвЂќ is an industry favorite, beloved by makers of other great podcasts: in its cocktail of poetry, fiction, archival interviews, music, and field recordings, itвЂ™s an art work in itself, a glorious sound bath to luxuriate in as we absorb the magazineвЂ™s literature and ideas. Later, we jump to late-nineties China, and the story of how Western pop music from junked American cassette tapes- dakou-вЂњsparked a musical explosion and totally reimagined what rock and roll was.вЂќ In the first episode, a group of journalists gathers in that Tokyo park, where Sony executives astound them with what the world would soon know as the Walkman. It also captures dozens of stunning little moments in the process. The series, hosted and produced by Simon Adler, takes us to surprising places-a Tokyo park in 1979, Bing CrosbyвЂ™s studio in 1946, nineties South Sudan-to show how providing people with the ability to record, edit, and transport sound has altered our relationship with culture, politics, history, our loved ones, and reality itself.

вЂњRadiolab: Mixtape,вЂќ a five-episode miniseries, does this with the humble cassette, presenting stories about the ways in which that format, now underappreciated, changed the world. Some of my favorite podcasts use the medium to explore the history of audio recording, reflecting on our current aural-cultural moment in light of whatвЂ™s come before.