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Sound
Listening, radio, rooms, and what the ear notices before we do.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 48 The sound of a room Every room has a voice before anyone speaks in it. Acoustician Inês Carvalho on churches that hum, cafés designed to feel busy, and why the quietest room she ever measured made people anxious.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 261 Listening at half speed Everyone I know listens to podcasts at double speed. I tried the opposite for a month.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 44 What radio taught me Before podcasts I spent four years at a community radio station in Hackney. A solo episode about live mistakes, the 3 a.m. listener, and why I still talk to one person, not an audience.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 43 Fado and the art of the pause Fadista Marta Lobo on singing in a room of forty people, the silence the audience owes the singer, and why the most important note in a fado is the one she doesn't sing.
- ThreadThread Lisbon sounds, ranked Lisbon sounds, ranked, by someone who records them for fun.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 250 A city that sounds like itself Lisbon has a sound you can recognise with your eyes closed. Here is how I learned to hear it.
- ThreadThread What a good podcast intro does in thirty seconds What a good podcast intro does in its first thirty seconds:
- TalkSound Matters, Berlin Writing for the ear What changes when your words will be heard instead of read. On sentence length, breath, repetition, and leaving the pauses in.
- TalkUrban Sound Forum, Barcelona Cities you can hear Soundmarks — the sounds that make a place itself — are disappearing faster than landmarks. A short talk with recordings from five years of listening to Lisbon.
Low Tide
A letter from Lisbon, every other Sunday.
Essays first, before they land here. No tracking pixels, no ads, one click to leave. 6,400 people read it; the next one goes out on Sunday 1 November.
