2023-10-23
37 分钟Keyboard and mouse clicks, the song of an ice cream truck, a neighbor’s yapping dog – what kind of noises soundtrack your life? Today’s guest, Dallas Taylor, is the host and creator of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, a show about the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. In this episode, he shares why sounds can tell deeper stories – and how tuning IN to the noise of the world can help us tap into the wild depths of our imagination. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and right now I am walking into the little room that I use to record this podcast.
So I'm recording this on my phone, but now I'm on my regular podcast mic setup.
It sounds pretty different, right?
Pretty good.
You know, before I started working in audio, there were so many things that I never thought about when it came to sound.
For example, I didn't know that whenever you say a word in English with a p in it, like pepper, a little gust of wind comes out of your mouth, and that can often get picked up on a microphone.
For example, listen to this.
Pepper.
Pepper.
Now, normally I have a little windscreen in front of my microphone that stops that pee from getting popped.
That's what they call that popping your peas.
And it's a big no no in audio.
Or another thing that happens sometimes is if I start typing on my computer, you can hear that tapping from the keyboard, get picked up a little bit.
Now, those are a few of the sounds that we're trying to avoid when I'm making this podcast.
But there's a whole host of other things that we're not trying to avoid, but that we're trying to make happen.
Incredible, beautiful, amazing, fun things that audio can do that many of us never, ever notice.
And today's guest, Dallas Taylor, is on a mission to make the world see and hear just how incredible sound can truly be.
We have these five core senses, sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.
We don't need to be some sort of expert in color palettes or an expert sculptor in order to appreciate paint colors on wall or design or a beautiful car.