danjmcsMay 28, 2025
A great episode from a favorite podcast, Twenty Thousand Hertz - The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear #20kHz
https://www.20k.org/episodes/the-deaf-composer
The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

What happens when one of history’s greatest composers begins to lose the very sense he relies on most? In this episode, we explore how Ludwig van Beethoven continued to create groundbreaking music even as his world fell into silence. Along the way, we uncover the myths, inventions, and raw determina

Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
danjmcsJul 31, 2024
I'm listening to Twenty Thousand Hertz+ | The Sound of Apple #20Khz https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-gn4ga-1ffba629
The Sound of Apple

Over the last few decades, Apple has produced some of the most recognizable sounds ever made. In this episode, the Apple design team pulls back the curtain on their sound design philosophy and process, from the evolution of the classic “Tritone” alert, to the surprising origins of the Apple Watch sounds, to the inspiration behind the latest notification tones. Featuring Billy Sorrentino, Hugo Verweij and Kelly Jacklin.If you know what this week's mystery sound is, let us know at mystery.20k.org.Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Facebook.Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: www.20k.org/episodes/the-sound-of-apple

danjmcsMay 21, 2024
All About That Bass - For this episode, we worked with OnePlus to tell the story of our collective obsession with bass, and the one device that transformed the sound of popular music. - #20kHz https://www.20k.org/episodes/allaboutthatbass
All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808 — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

If you listen to vintage music, one of the first things you’ll notice is the complete lack of bass. But turn on a Top 40 station today, and you’ll hear song after song with deep, sub-ratting bass tones. So how and why did this change happen? For this episode, we worked with OnePlus to tell the sto

Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
danjmcsNov 21, 2022
I'm listening to Twenty Thousand Hertz+ | Synth War II: Digital Doom #20KHz #20Korg
https://www.20k.org/episodes/digitaldoom
Synth War II: Digital Doom — Twenty Thousand Hertz

In the 1960s, Bob Moog and Don Buchla built synthesizers that changed the world. But by the early 80s, they faced a new challenger who threatened to bring it all crumbling down: the digital synthesizer. To defeat this opponent, they’d have to recruit a new ally… and maybe even join forces. Featuring

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danjmcsSep 28, 2022
I'm listening to Twenty Thousand Hertz+ | MicroHertz #7: Trailers Through the Decades #20kHz
danjmcsAug 25, 2022
Really great episode on the audio design of Hamilton #20khz #20korg
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ | Hamilton Remix
https://www.20k.org/episodes/hamiltonremix
Hamilton Remix — Twenty Thousand Hertz

Broadway’s award-winning, record-breaking, smash hit, Hamilton, is a musical unlike any other. In this special episode, we have re-voiced, remixed, and remastered one of our shows about our favorite broadway musical! Featuring Nevin Steinberg , Hamilton’s Tony-nominated sound designer, Benny Reine

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🔌💘🐶Nov 30, 2018

TIL via #20kHz podcast :

The reason so many big-budget dubs are complete shite is because the voice actors aren’t given the resources necessary to do their job out of a fear of #piracy and leaks.

CJ MallardJan 24, 2018

Listening to the current episode of #20kHz about #news music and how all the major news #networks (potentially inadvertently) sell the nation that going to #war is a good idea. There's a reason I say that all news is #fakenews.

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