Listening is way more than just paying attention, and this week’s show explores how. To find out just what listening can do to us, we eavesdrop with a cochlear implant, learn what crying babies teach us about music, find out how silence can be full, how God enters our thoughts, and ask what a single moment of being listened to can achieve. We’re finding out what happens when we listen to sounds we never expected to, when we take our listening where it’s never been.
Host/Producer: Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Professor Tanya Luhrmann, Professor Jonathan Berger, Musikilu Mojeed , Rachel Kolb, Eoin Callery, D’or Seifer, Daniel Steinbock
Release Date: 20 February 2013
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Intro Story: The Bus is an F
A lot of people in relationships will say their partner hears the world differently. This is a story where that’s literally true.
Featuring: Eoin Callery and D’or Seifer
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Natacha Ruck, Christy Hartman
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Story 1: A Sense of Unhappy Confusion
What is so piercing about a baby’s cry? Why can’t we ignore it? We were curious what makes us listen, and we ended up learning why we like music.
Featuring: Jonathan Berger
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Krystal Le, Natacha Ruck
Music: Broken Gadget, Gurdonark, Stefsax, Basematic, jlbrock44
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Story 2: Eavesdropping on the World of Sounds
Rachel Kolb could never just overhear. She was born deaf, but it wasn’t one-on-one communication that was hardest — it was with groups. Then one day, she managed to listen to something she never expected to hear.
Featuring: Rachel Kolb
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Victoria Hurst, Rachel Hamburg
Music: Kevin Macleod – Light Thought Var. 1
– Jarvic 8
– Slow Heat
– Gypsy Shoegazer
– Wet Riffs
– Avec Soin
Jessica_Pavone – Dedicated to Elizabeth Cotten, with Matt Bauder
Emphemtry – Old Dreams
Oskar Schuster – Sneuwland
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Story 3: Daniel and the Quakers
Sometimes the space between words, and what happens during that space, is much more powerful than anything anyone could say.
Featuring: Daniel Steinbock
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Zainab Taymuree
Music: Cara Roxanne
KeroDean – Intimate
Dan Warren – Instrumental Restoration
Ergo Phizmiz – Margita Zalite – Rolands Vegners
Kevin Macleod – Frost Waltz
Jared C. Balogh – A Tough Decision
Pitx – See you Later
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Story 4: Listening to God
Most of what we listen for, other people can hear it. But sometimes what we listen for doesn’t even have a sound.
Featuring: Professor Tanya Luhrmann
Producers: Jonah Willihnganz, Nina Foushee, Rachel Hamburg
Music: Steffen Basho-Junghans and Rob Voigt
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Story 5: Sometimes, They Don’t Listen
Nigerian investigative journalist and Stanford Knight Fellow Musikilu Mojeed has a very specific definition of what it means for people to listen: government taking action. His long quest to bring down one of Nigeria’s most corrupt politicians shows hard it can be for that version of listening to happen — and also, the power of being listened to.
Featuring: Musikilu Mojeed
Producers: Charlie Mintz, Joshua Hoyt
Music: Blue Suede Through
Christos Koulaxizis – The Place
Brendan Bonsack – Clockwork Waltz
Grapes – I dunno
Anitek – Dormouse
Anitek – Calling
ArnoDee – Compulsion
Kevin Macleod – “Cool Vibes”, Wisps of Whorls
Stefsax – Awel
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Bonus: The Rest is Silence
On our show we told the story of Rachel Kolb’s first experience eavesdropping, with the help of her cochlear implant. But the decision to get that implant is a story of its own.
Featuring: Rachel Kolb
Producer: Ariana Peck
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