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Archives for August 2021

Interview with Producer, Randall Libero – Part 2

August 25, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

“Producers are people who are interested in developing and creating new ideas that expand human awareness and human consciousness.”

Randall Libero

This week is part two of my interview with online media authority Randall Libero. He’s an executive producer of Voice America as well as co-producer of the new dramatic podcast “Marilyn: Behind the Icon.,” and we’ll be talking about myths, movies and the future of audio storytelling.

The Power of the Image

We begin the second half of the interview with a closer look at the concept of cinematic audio and “painting the scene with sound.” Randall discusses the innovative techniques of such cinematic legends as Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles, and how they understood that art isn’t just created, but is brought to life by its audience. “When you look at a great painting,” he explains, “there’s so much of your interpretation of it from everything that you’ve experienced in life, and you interpret that painting completely different from somebody else who’s had a completely different experience in life.”

Stories That Bring Us Together

Randall also talks about the myths and archetypes of our ancestors, and the role imagery, geometry, and sound played in bringing those ancient stories to life. He sees such a holistic approach to stories making a return in the 21st century, and with it an opportunity to forge a new connection to art. “The challenge is can we actually create content both on the screen and through storytelling, through audio sound, that actually expands human consciousness.”

The Way That We Dream

“We’re in a full-out revolution now, and you can see that in many forms today.” Randall and I talk about how social media and the information age have empowered millions to create and share their work on an unprecedented level. “This digitized media landscape,” Randall notes as we look to the future, “has disrupted and forever changed how movies and media are changing the way we think, the way we live, the way we relate, and the way that we dream.”

Creating It Together

The episode concludes with a discussion of audio storytelling and the unique techniques that are involved in bringing a story to life entirely through sound. We explore just what it truly means to be a producer in the age of new media and what responsibilities creative producers have toward their audience and to future generations. As Randall puts it, “when you create media, you have a responsibility to your audience to make their lives better.”

Next week I’ll be interviewing Michael Joly, the founder and CEO of solu and creator of the n.o.w. Tone Therapy meditation device, for a look at sound, stillness, and the healing power of music.

Get your complimentary mini e-book and learn how to create your personalized and branded audio branding strategy with my Top Five Tips for Implementing an Intentional Audio Strategy.

Do you need a voice talent for your next project? Visit my voice-over website to find out more about how my voice can help you with your audio brand.  You can also subscribe to the Audio Branding Podcast on YouTube to watch the show’s latest episodes.

Please leave the Audio Branding Podcast a written review or a spoken review so others can find the show on their favorite podcast player!

This interview episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco.

Connect with Randall

Website: www.VoiceAmerica.com

Follow Randall Libero on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randall.libero

Connect with Randall Libero on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randall-libero-7677364/

Filed Under: Audio Production Tagged With: ancient cultures, audio drama, cinematic audio, dramatic audio, dramatic podcasts, expanded cinema, human consciousness, internet producer, podcast drama, randall libero, visionary entertainment, voice america

Interview with Producer, Randall Libero – Part 1

August 18, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

“All throughout this, in the background, it’s been, for me, a study about the effect of media on human consciousness.”

Randall Libero

When it comes to creating a brand and being known as an authority in your field, podcasting truly is the new frontier.

This week’s guest is on the forefront of that frontier, particularly audio drama: he’s a producer, online media authority, speaker,

and radio and TV host who’s been creating original productions for network and independent television, broadcast news, and online media for over thirty years. His career began as a cameraman, editor, and producer in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and in the 1990s he created the first online media research facility and historical news archive for the U.S. State Department’s International Bureau of Broadcasting.

He switched to the world of journalism, writing international breaking news for CBS Radio and AOL Time Warner and today he co-produces a dramatic podcast, “Marilyn: Behind the Icon.” His name is Randall Libero, and if you want to learn more about what it takes to have a successful podcast, this is the interview for you!

A Different Kind of Kid

We begin with a look at Randall’s childhood, his heartwarming first encounter with his grandfather’s wire recorder, and how a near-death experience at the age of five changed his perspective and gave him an early sense of maturity and awareness of the future. “I was a different kind of kid,” he explains, and he knew from an early age that he wanted to devote his life to exploring the magic of sound, to sparking the imagination and bringing stories to life.

How Did They Do It?

“I knew King Kong was not real,” Randall explains, remembering the movie monster who first inspired his fascination with sound, “but how did they do it?” We talk about the science-fiction and fantasy shows that influenced him as he grew up, such as The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone and the groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the beginning of mass media and commercial entertainment, a new form of storytelling that emerged quite literally before his eyes.

A Study of Consciousness

Randall and I talk about his wide-ranging career, spanning from broadcast television to international news to online radio and podcast production. Through it all, he says, his focus has remained on human consciousness, the complex relationship between the storyteller and listener’s expectations, and how movies have helped transform our very

definitions of stories. “You have to think of when did storytelling change and how did it change.”

When Storytelling Changed

With the evolution from silent movies to traditional Hollywood films and now podcasts, stories are taking on entirely new forms and being told in new ways. Randall discusses the way both stories and their audience has evolved alongside the ways stories are told, and how the role of sound has changed along with them. “Most movies even today,” he observes, “are seventy or seventy-five percent sound.” Dramatic audio stories like his new podcast Marilyn: Behind the Icon seek to take that further, bringing to life a character’s thoughts and memories using sound and the power of imagination.

Be sure to check back next week for part two as we talk about cinematic audio, the future of mass media and storytelling, and take a sneak peek at some of Randall’s upcoming projects.

Get your complimentary mini e-book and learn how to create your personalized and branded audio branding strategy with my Top Five Tips for Implementing an Intentional Audio Strategy.

Do you need a voice talent for your next project? Visit my voice-over website to find out more about how my voice can help you with your audio brand.  You can also subscribe to the Audio Branding Podcast on YouTube to watch the show’s latest episodes.

Please leave the Audio Branding Podcast a written review or a spoken review so others can find the show on their favorite podcast player!

This interview episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco.

Connect with Randall

Website: www.VoiceAmerica.com

Follow Randall Libero on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randall.libero

Connect with Randall Libero on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randall-libero-7677364/

Filed Under: Audio Production Tagged With: audio drama, behind the icon, cinematic audio, dramatic audio, dramatic podcasts, internet producer, marilyn monroe, podcast drama, randall libero, visionary entertainment, voice america

Music of the Spheres

August 11, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

“In space, no one can hear you scream.” At least not according to a certain famous movie tagline, and for the most part, it’s absolutely right. Sound as we know it travels as vibrating waves through matter, and there just isn’t enough of it in the vacuum of space to carry sound. But that doesn’t mean space is really silent. Ancient scholars believed in the “Musica Universalis” or the “music of the spheres,” a universal harmony created by the movements of the planets and stars that, though inaudible to the human ear, filled the cosmos. And they turned out to be right in ways that even they couldn’t have conceived.

Most of us know what the Sun looks like, but what does the Sun sound like? Modern astronomers before 1962 would have said it doesn’t sound like anything, but then they discovered that the Sun oscillates every five minutes as sound waves ripple across its surface. A new branch of science, helioseismology, was formed that uses those sound waves to map the inside of the Sun, the same way we can study the Earth by measuring earthquakes.

It turns out that the Sun itself has a resonant frequency, just like a drum or a violin string. At 0.0033 hertz it’s too low to hear, but just check below for an audible clip of the Sun created by Stanford University’s Sounds of Solar Harmonics Project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a9KasH8dhWjaY9gHKgS1iu6EWhf_oojQ/view

Each and every star in the sky has its own unique harmonics, its own voice, and we’re just starting to study those stellar sounds. The European Space Agency’s PLATO space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2026 and one of its missions will be to study the oscillations of nearby stars, to literally listen to the sounds they create.

Stars aren’t the only things in the sky that have a resonance frequency and a sound all their own. Even the planets possess their own unique sounds, created by magnetic fields and transmitted throughout the solar system as radio waves. Saturn in particular has a complex sound that includes its own magnetic field as well as the sound of its rings and moons swinging around it. You can find an audio clip of Saturn created by NASA below; you might find it unsettling or even soothing, but it’s definitely unearthly.

This sort of celestial harmony stretches far beyond our solar system to include the whole universe. Just a few months ago astronomers discovered that a nearby star system, TOI-178, has five planets locked in resonant orbits around their star. All five planets orbit their star with a single harmony, like a music box dancer. You can find a link to an audio representation of TOI-178 below. While our Sun and planets can have very uncanny, whispering and howling sounds, TOI-178’s orbits almost sound like a song:

If planets and stars and even star systems can resonate with their own unique sound, what about the universe itself? The answer is surprisingly yes, and it was predicted by Albert Einstein. Gravity, according to relativity theory, literally creates waves in the fabric of space and time, and those gravitational waves were first detected in 2015. Although every moving object creates gravitational waves, the strongest ones, the ones we’ve detected, come from black holes as they collide and merge together; those collisions send vibrations racing across the universe at the speed of light.

The universe itself is vibrating like a drum as gravitational waves ripple back and forth across it, with a vast and complicated rhythm that we can’t even begin to comprehend. Trillions of years from now, even after the stars have faded, those gravitational waves, the sound of the universe itself, will still fill the cosmos, and it’ll continue until literally the end of time.

There’s another link here to a video called “Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time.” At 30 minutes it’s a little long, but absolutely worth watching as it explores the future of the Earth, our galaxy and finally the universe, and how sound and harmony, in the form of gravitational waves sweeping through space, may well be the final, most enduring aspect of the cosmos.

The next time you look up at the night sky, think of the stars and planets, and even the empty space between them, all filled with vibrations and secret melodies that we’re only beginning to discover. Music is a part of the universe itself, filling every distant corner and reaching further into the future than we can imagine.

Would you consider giving this podcast an honest review? You can do that here: https://lovethepodcast.com/audiobranding.  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – Top 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Research, Research & Technology Tagged With: astronomy, black holes, European Space Agency, gravitational waves, helioseismology, PLATO space telescope, sound in space, Sounds of Solar Harmonics, TOI-178

Interview with #VoiceFirst Influencer, Physician, Speaker, Author and Podcaster, Dr. Teri Fisher – Part 2

August 4, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

“The convenience and service AI Voice will afford is part of the power of this system.”

Dr. Teri Fisher

AI Vocal Biomarkers 

“When you take a digital photograph, in addition to getting the image, there’s data that’s captured by the camera.” Teri compares the digital photograph information to the type of data you can get from hearing a voice. Besides the actual words, you can also clue into the mood, context, tone, and other elements that give vocal information to the receiver. You can quantify this information and break down components in vocal sounds. 

“Putting these vocal samples into a computer, you can use artificial intelligence and machine learning with a computer to detect patterns in your voice.” Now the computer can detect emotion, changes in emotions, and other “metadata” when it hears someone speak. 

How Sound Impacted Teri at an Early Age

When Teri was growing up, his mother studied music to become a music therapist. He and his three brothers started taking music lessons at the age of three. Between the different instruments played, they had a built-in family string quartet in their home. At a very young age, Teri started using his personal computer to make music using a MIDI interface. “I started to write pieces of simple music using computers and I can still remember those sounds, and it was amazing to me that I could write music and control the computer to play my music.”

Applications for AI Vocal Biomarkers

We may be able to predict a potential suicide, catching COVID-19, cognitive decline, mortality rate, and possibly physical diseases. To ensure you have accurate voice authentication you have to make sure the system is able to compensate for changes in a voice due to aging. Voice biomarkers can detect a number of health conditions. “They are now using voice to predict the risk of someone having COVID-19.” 

Teri’s Prediction on the Future of AI Biomarkers

Dr. Fisher believes that, in the future, smart speakers will have the ability to ask you health questions based on the sound of your voice. The smart speaker could then use your answers to give an educated guess as to what illness you may have and send the appropriate test kit to your home. Your smart device could walk you through your test and could fill your prescription, delivering it to your home. “You could receive basic medical care in the comfort of your home through your voice.”

Personal Health Information and Data Privacy with AI Devices

Your smartphone most likely has the highest percentage of your personal information out of all the online places we use daily. But we aren’t willing to give up our phones.  “The convenience and service AI Voice will afford is part of the power of this system.” When we have virtual meetings with doctors online, we are losing our privacy but patients participate because this way of meeting is convenient.

Flash Briefing on Amazon

Dr. Fisher created a new online course, Flash Briefing Formula, for those who are looking to get their feet wet in the realm of voice technology from a business perspective. To find flash briefings you can ask your Amazon Alexa to play a flash briefing on a topic. You can also ask Alexa to subscribe to a flash briefing that you’d like to listen to daily. In addition to the ability to listen to the briefings, content creators have a way to be searchable on Amazon. 

AI Smart Speakers

According to the most recent statistics, smart speakers are the fastest adopted technology in history. People like the convenience of being able to ask questions and get an immediate answer from the speaker.

Make sure to listen in as Teri and I go into detail about the advantages AI will offer us in the future and why he believes that AI technology will quickly advance the healthcare industry.

Visit with Dr. Teri Fisher via his website, like Dr. Fisher on Facebook, and connect with Dr. Teri Fisher on LinkedIn. You can also chat with Teri by tweeting with him on Twitter and subscribe to Teri‘s feed on YouTube.

In the meantime…

Get your complimentary mini e-book and learn how to create your personalized audio branding strategy with my Top Five Tips for Implementing an Intentional Audio Strategy. 

Do you need a voice talent for your next project? Visit my voice over website to find out more about how my voice can help you with your audio brand.  You can also subscribe to the Audio Branding Podcast on YouTube to watch the show’s latest episodes.

Please leave the Audio Branding Podcast a review so others can find the show on their favorite podcast player!

This interview episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco.

Filed Under: Voice Technology Tagged With: AI, AI advantages, AI applications, AI technology, AI Voice, alexa AI, smart speaker, smart speakers, voice AI, voice AI technology, voice applications, voice technology

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