The Sounding History podcasts talk about the history of Sound and Music in the last 500 hundred years. These podcasts are hosted by Tom Irvine and Chris Smith, two music historians interested in reflecting the history of sounds not through the main music composers, but from a different point of view, the people who live those times.
We have been told in class, to listen to one episode per group and expose the main ideas and our opinion in class, the episode that my group was assigned was number 4: “Sounding Stone & Cetacean Energy”.
https://www.soundinghistorypodcast.com/episodes/episode-4
This podcast talks about colonial ages in the silk route in China, and how explorers experienced the sound and language of the area, having found great discoveries, like a stone inscribed in the Chinese and Syriac languages, which represented a revolution on the understanding of how the Chinese language was created and it’s “musical” origin.
In the second part, the podcast changes the subject to explain about the sonic environment of whaling ships in the colonial era. These ships used the navigate outside its territory for years, and the crew discovered and lived at different location in the world finding different languages and types of music.
