At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve discovered their own ways to find a voice within the static.
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10/01/20 • 39 min
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Into the Zone - The Ghost in the Codec
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Pushkin. A few years ago, I was thinking a lot about ghosts and music. I was writing a novel called White Tears, about two young music producers who fake in nineteen twenties blues record and put it out on the Internet, pretending it's the work of a long forgotten musician. Gradually they realized that something horrible that's coming towards them out of the past. While I was writing, I'd spend hours every day listening to recordings made in the
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