Where We Live: Sounds Around Us

If you stop and really listen, there’s a world of sound all around you.

For many people, this ambience of life is drowned out by the constant soundtrack of music...in our cars...on our headphones as we walk a city block or hop a subway.  

But today we’ll explore a different soundtrack, that of our actual surroundings.  

The idea came to us from two recent shows we did...one about how new technology is allowing us to map our worlds in all kinds of new ways...and another about field recordings as a type of cultural anthropology.

We’ll talk to sound artists who blend these worlds to create sound-maps and sound-walks.

And, we’ll also catch up with Anthony Fantano - creator of the Needle Drop - he’s always got his antennas up for the newest, freshest music.