Ep.40 - That Time the CBC Aired 10 Hours of Crickets and Church Bells
The Imposter · Canadaland Media
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Show Notes
For two weeks in 1974, the CBC broadcast ten hours of field recordings from across the country on their flagship documentary show, Ideas. The recordings were collected by a group of twentysomething composers and a famous avant-garde acoustic ecologist. They were trying to capture Canada through sound. On this episode, composer and scholar Mitchell Akiyama asks whether that’s even possible.
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