Reasonably Sound

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound A quick rumination on why people slur their speech when they're drunk, and a little thinking on what it means to slur, and its place in popular culture. Music by Will Stratton Visual Branding by Tida Tep Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201505/why-do-drunk-people-stumble-fumble-and-slur-their-words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum https://kin450-neurophysiology.wikispaces.com/Alcohol+%26+Cerebellum http://www.bloodalcohol.info/how-alcohol-affects-the-brain.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum_granule_cell CLUMSINESS: http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/clumsy-people-rejoice-theres-scientific-reason-youre-klutz/1047848/ http://www.bustle.com/articles/84286-what-causes-clumsiness-and-can-it-be-cured-what-science-knows-about-people-who-always-be -- LICENSING INFO -- Changed the license for this track from CC-BY to CC-BY-N

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound This week, it’s the sounds that surround holiday gatherings and rituals. Mike tackles several sonic phenomena and how they will function during your Turkey Day soiree. And how you can use their existence as fodder for conversations with your Uncle Alvin when you run out of weather to discuss. You’ll learn about the acoustic arms race that is the Lombard Effect. How the TV people record the sparkling sounds of football. And what being cooperative has to do with our ability to have conversations at all. Plus, Mike tries to pronounce weird technical terms. -- A previous version of this episode contained the following MUSIC -- Family is Family by Kacey Musgraves from Pageant Material Family Day Red Room by Microkingdom from Spectacular Edges Football Fight by Queen from the Flash Gordon Soundtrack -- SOURCES -- “Drivers to Pay Lowest Thanksgiving Gas Prices Since 2008” at AAA.com http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/thanksgiving-travel-forecast/ “Turkey and Travel” on Nati

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound THIS WEEK IT’S ALL ABOUT SCREAMS (AAAAA!!!!) Horror and fear screams. It’s not just talking with some extra juice. There is much, much more at work. Physically and psychologically, a scream is a unique thing in human sound production. Mike explores the what and how, and that they aren’t like shouts or yells. Plus a deep dive into what they mean. And how they function in film. Especially as delivered by women. -- SOURCES -- The Hard Work of Screaming: Physical Exertion and Affective Labor Among Mexico City’s Punk Vocalists Author(s): Kelley Tatro Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 431-453 ‘The scream’: Meanings and excesses in early childhood settings Rachel Rosen Childhood 2015, Vol. 22(1) 39–52 Phenomenology of the Scream Author(s): Peter Schwenger Source: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Winter 2014), pp. 382-395 Nonlinear analysis of irregular animal vocalizations Isao Tokudaa, et al J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 111, No. 6, June 2002 Hum

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound It’s all about nostalgia and limitation as Mike chips away (ahhh?!?!?) at the world of chiptunes music. If you played video games years and years ago, you’ll hear a set of sounds that will be completely familiar, even when used in unfamiliar compositional genres. Mike explores the anatomy of chiptunes sounds and composition, and looks into chiptunes’ relationship to hacking and the counterculture. PLUS: lots of clips of music from the video games of bygone times. And Mike pronouncing more European names. And the line “making bonk-bonk noises.” -- SOURCES -- Endless Loop: A Brief History of Chiptunes by Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/96/94 Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design by Karen Collins Playing with Sound by Karen Collins Music in Video Games, ed. Donnelly, et al The Sound of Playing: A Study into the Music and Culture of

It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of [our] own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he explores the work of corporeal sonification as music, as well the history and meaning of sounds in medicine. There are lots of sound puns that are sure to resonate (HA!), and the pleasure of hearing Mike work his way through European names of the 19th century. Also the word “auscultation.” Music Intro: My Body by Perfume Genius from Too Bright Break 1: Suddenly by Herbert from Bodily Functions Break 2: Lipostudio by Matmos from A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of [our] own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he explores the work of corporeal sonification as music, as well the history and meaning of sounds in medicine. There are lots of sound puns that are sure to resonate (HA!), and the pleasure of hearing Mike work his way through European names of the 19th century. Also the word “auscultation.” And a Special Thanks to these Reasonably Sound Patrons: Hans Buetow, Xander C, Talia F E, Camilla Greer, Parker Higgins, Joe Krushinski, Tod Kurt and Ethan Rose! -- a previous version of this episode contained the following music -- Intro/Outro: My Body by Perfume Genius from Too Bright Break 1: Suddenly by Herbert from Bodily Functions Break 2: Lipostudio by Matmos from A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound Originally published September 17, 2015 It’s the birthday episode for Reasonably Sound! Celebrating 1 year, Mike dives into why he can’t lead us all in a rousing chorus of that famous Happy Birthday song that we all know and … love (?). But the copyright clampdown might be loosening in light of dramatic new evidence found (as evidence usually is) in a basement. PLUS … an exciting new birthday announcement: We are launching a Patreon! Now you can support the show you love with more than just cheering at your phone whenever a new episode comes out. The Patreon will help Reasonably Sound grow to new and exciting places. You can see the full details at the Reasonably Sound Patreon page. You can also find Reasonably Sound’s very own Birthday Song at Mike’s bandcamp here: https://mikerugnetta.bandcamp.com/album/hbd-2 -- SOURCES -- FMA’S License Free Birthday Songs, Entries http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/ Ha

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound Mike is on a brief vacation on Cape Cod. At the beach. Where he considers why the point of the beach isn't really the beach, but instead the strange draw of waves, water and the ocean. The ocean as Muzak. As white noise. As a tempering force for the other parts of our lives.

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound It's convention season and Mike is on the road for three weeks straight, spending a LOT of time in centers and major hotel chains. And he's noticed how much of his life has become underscored by Muzak and the purposefully designed feelings that it is meant to evoke.

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound Mike explores audience, taste, morality, subjectivity, commodity, and so much more in a pastiche of readings from Theodor W. Adorno, Gawker, Taylor Swift’s Tumblr, Fashionista, Noisey, NME and Pitchfork. The text of this episode of Reasonably Sound is entirely found. The sources are: On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening By Theodor W. Adorno Sacred Vows, Lies and Morphine: Nuns Detail Fight Against Katy Perry on Gawker http://gawker.com/sacred-vows-lies-and-morphine-nuns-detail-fight-again-1718987804 Retire the Taylor Swift Underdog Narrative Now on Defamer http://defamer.gawker.com/retire-the-taylor-swift-underdog-narrative-now-1713410032 Justin Beiber by Martha Stewart on Interview http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/justin-bieber-1#_ How the Lyrics on Miranda Lambert’s ‘Platinum’ Predicted Her Divorce from Blake Shelton on Noisey http://noisey.vice.com/blog/miranda-lambert-divorce-lyrics 50,000 people sign petition to stop Kany

Mike explores the sonic aspects of fireworks: What is an explosion, and why do they sound the way they do? These questions lead to a breakdown of combustion versus detonation; low explosives versus high explosives; the phrase “the boom is sort of like a pop with a diploma;” and a fascinating tangent about trying to learn card tricks in the ’90s. Plus: The joys of taping a ref’s whistle to the hood of your car. -- SOURCES -- Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfxmWbelcQ SkunkBear on Fireworks http://skunkbear.tumblr.com/post/90696652324/boom-awww SkyLighter on the new Dragon’s Egg recipe http://www.skylighter.com/fireworks/how-to-make/bismuth-subcarbonate-dragon-eggs.asp NOVA on the construction (incl Sound Charges) of Fireworks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fireworks/anat_nf.html A Fireworks Manual about sound I couldn’t buy if I wanted to, it seems http://www.skylighter.com/mall/product-details.asp?id=463 -- A previous version

It’s the ice cream truck jingle. Even Mike’s hated Mr. Softee one. Mike provides the secret origin of the jingle, touching on the Great Depression, the growth of the American middle class, the Good Humor Man, refrigeration, and bobsled bells. -- Sources -- Ice Cream: A Global History by Laura B. Weiss http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Global-History-Reaktion/dp/1861897928 Ding, Ding!: The Commodity Aesthetic of Ice Cream Truck Music by Daniel T Neely http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199913657.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199913657-e-005 The real song of the summer: a brief history of ice cream truck music http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2013/7/The-real-song-of-the-summer-a-brief-history-of-ice-cream-truck-music A Brief History of the Ice Cream Truck http://mentalfloss.com/article/52281/brief-history-ice-cream-truck Nichols Electronics Co http://www.nicholselectronicsco.com/ Putting the ‘Mr.’ in Soft Ice Cream http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/nyregion/putting-the-mr-in-soft-ice-cream.html

Echoic memory, how it differs from other kinds of memory, and the definition of sound itself, all on this episode of Reasonably Sound. Plus: Jamiroquai.

Mike and Molly (not the TV show) take a road trip and consider Spotify, MTV2, and how we discover music now. (Also: Cover versions, N.W.A., and the undeniable perfection of Pony.)

That part in dance music, where the music builds and builds and builds and BUILDS before the tension finally, FINALLY, gets relieved? That’s “the drop.” Mike talks about its origin, construction, and application, and tells you what P.L.U.R. means. -- Sources -- Stefan Sagmeister on Storytellers (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlkIVIau1Nk “Waiting for the Bass to Drop” by Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/451 “Detecting Drops in Electronic Dance Music” by Yadati, et al http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/proceedings/T026_297_Paper.pdf The Year in Black Erasure on Pitchfork http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/615-the-year-in-black-erasure/ Metaphors We Live By on UChicago.edu http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3637992.html -- A previous version of this episode contained the following music -- Intro: Rhythm Variation 02 by Aoki Takamasa RV8 Break #1: Not Butter byDillon Francis Break #2: Boss Mode by Knife party Break #2: Sum

Misophonia is, literally, “the hatred of sound.” Molly Templeton has it, and talks to Mike about the noises that trigger it. -- Molly Online -- twitter.com/mememolly instagram.com/mememolly -- Sources -- “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder” by Arjan Schröder, Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys. PLOSOne. “Decreased Sound Tolerance and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy” by Margaret M. Jastreboff AND Pawel J. Jastreboff. The Australian And New Zealnd Journal Of Audiology, Vol 24 #2. Nov. 2002 pp. 74-84 “Misophonia: Incidence, Phenomenology, and Clinical Correlates in an Undergraduate Student Sample” by Monica S. Wu, Adam B. Lewin, Tanya K. Murphy, and Eric A. Storch. Journal Of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 70(10), 994–1007 (2014) “Misophonia: An Overview” by Diane F. Duddy, Au.D. and Kristi A.M. Oeding, Au.D. Seminars In Hearing/Volume 35, # 2 2014 Music -- A previous version of this episode contained music by -- Intro: Is That Revolution Sad? by Contemporary Noise Sextet from The Wire Tap

How much is a song worth? How do you even calculate it? And what do DJ Shadow, Tom Waits, and the Wu-Tang Clan have to do with it? Mike Rugnetta answers these and other questions. -- Sources -- The Spotify Calculator http://time.com/3590670/spotify-calculator/ That Chevy Ad with the DJ Shadow track https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7sTc/chevrolet-attract-attention-song-by-dj-shadow Tom Waits on musicians allowing their work to be used in commercials http://dangerousminds.net/comments/tom_waits_on_musicians_allowing_their_work Tom Waits: Not a Jingle Writer http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633751 NYT CD Cost Breakdown http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/05/arts/pennies-that-add-up-to-16.98-why-cd-s-cost-so-much.html Wal•Mart Wants $10 CDs http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wal-mart-wants-10-cds-20041012 How Much Do Artists Earn Online – 2012 http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/08/infographic-how-much-do-artists-earn-online-2012/ The New Economy of the Music Industry http://www.rollingstone.c

Mike explains how pigeon-lovers Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson found evidence to prove the Big Bang. Find out about hisses, #starstuff, photons, poop, and more to get a full picture of what the universe actually sounds like. -- Universe Sounds -- Big Bang Hiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7nKWa8hSM Dawn Chorus http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/news/emfisis-chorus.html#.VQj9FhDF880 Black hole http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/listen.html Sound of the Big Bang http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html -- Sources -- You Can Still Hear the Hiss of the Big Bang http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/03/big_bang_you_can_hear_the_afterglow_hiss_on_robert_wilson_s_cellphone.html Listen to A Black Hole http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/listen.html Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/04/listening-to-the-big-bang-in-high-fidelity-audio/ Black Hole Sound Waves http://science.nasa.g

Mike navigates the streets, subways, and pizza shops of NYC, and as you listen, ponder whether listening to this episode makes you an active listener, an eavesdropper, or a spy.

On this installment of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta covers subliminal messages and their (lack of) effectiveness with help from BrainCraft’s Vanessa Hill. Chandler Bing is referenced. -- Find Vanessa -- youtube.com/braincraft twitter.com/brain_craft twitter.com/nessyhill -- Sources -- Is there an effect of subliminal messages in music on choice behavior? by Hauke Egermann, Reinhard Kopiez, Christoph Reuter.Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis Vol. 4, No. 2 Subliminal Auditory Messages: An Evaluation by Philip M. Merikle. Psychology & Marketing Vol. 5(4): 355-372 (Winter 1988) Subliminal speech perception and auditory streaming by Emmanuel Dupoux *, Vincent de Gardelle, Sid Kouider. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.012 The Electronic Revolution by William Burroughs The Influence of Auditory Subliminals on Behavior: A Series of Investigations by Myra J. Staum Melissa Brotons. Journal of Music Therapy, XXIX (3), 1992, 130-185 -- A previous version of this episode contained the follow