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Favorite feed: Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast by Defacto Sound

Twenty Thousand Hertz is a great, easy-to-listen-to podcast with stories and interviews about those hidden elements of sound and sound design throughout our world, the ones you might never have considered or even heard of before. The NBC chimes, the voice of Siri, the sounds of the cars we buy, the hum generated by a secret government project—lots of neat little explorations.

  • April 10, 2017

Dave Pensado interviews Claudio Cueni on editing dialogue for a holographic performer.

At a recent incarnation of the huge Coachella music festival in California, a hologram of deceased rapper 2Pac “performed” on stage, including some introductory words. Someone had to do the work of sifting through recordings of 2Pac and cutting together the right takes to make a convincing performance. That someone was Claudio Cueni, who says he spent two and a half days just cataloguing every piece of 2Pac audio that had been made available to him. In this episode of the popular Pensado’s Place podcast, Cueni talks about that and other things—like the challenge of creating words that 2Pac had never been recorded saying.

  • October 27, 2015