Reasonably Sound ® – Infinite Guest Podcast Network

An episode about how scam and spam calls (and texts) work, why they've been so hard to stop, and what they can teach us about labor. -- Support the show at http://patreon.com/mikerugnetta -- Reas...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/46-the-scourge-of-modern-civilization

A short Rumination on stomach noises. -- https://anad.org/ – 1 (888)-375-7767 - ANAD is "the leading nonprofit in the U.S. providing free, peer support to anyone struggling with an eating disor...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/rm03-grumble-bubble-roil-and-rumble

Formerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- You can find a full recording the piece which plays under this extra, "From ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/43-hold-please-extra-vertical-time

Formerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- A section of Episode 41 which didn't make it in because of time for RS Patro...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/41-a-not-so-quiet-place-extra-the-silent-brigade

Formerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- Full, lightly edited interview with Parker Conducted for Episode 39: Automat...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/39-automated-copywrongs-extra-full-parker-interview

Formerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- This felt like a big thesis to just sorta... throw in to the episode and mov...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/39-automated-copywrongs-extra-perceptual-technics

On flailing in the rising tides, as well as the ecological impact of vinyl records and digital music streaming. -- Find full show notes, with research links, at http://reasonablysound.com/2019/08...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/45-the-world-remade

What if your car’s engine could sound like anything? -- Find full show notes, with research links, at http://reasonablysound.com/2019/02/07/vrooms-and-the-lack-thereof/ -- Thanks to all the sho...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/44-vrooms-and-the-lack-thereof

👕: https://cottonbureau.com/products/phonocloud -- -- Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line. A customer service representative will be with you shortly. Your call is impor...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/43-hold-please

👕: https://cottonbureau.com/products/phonocloud -- Life, The Universe, and A Small, Yellow Leechlike Fish -- Find full show notes, with research links, at http://reasonablysound.com/2018/07/30...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/42-the-oddest-thing-in-the-universe

RS TSHIRTS! https://cottonbureau.com/products/phonocloud -- Exposure to noise pollution has serious health risks, and disproportionately affects certain communities. But what if regulating it wou...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/041-a-not-so-quiet-place

On the pursuit of making machines talk, and the quality of digital assistants’ voices. Find full show notes, with research links, at http://reasonablysound.com/2018/02/27/helpful-mom-voices/ Th...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/40-helpful-mom-voices

Or: Do Androids Dream of Pitch Shifted Music? --- We talk about the algorithmic enforcement of copyright, how it works and why we have it. We talk to Parker Higgins, and speculate about a future ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/39-automated-copywrongs

As of Recording, Wham’s “Last Christmas” was predicted to be the UK #1 Christmas single, but the honor officially went to Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” (not a year end song, despite what the...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/038-why-are-there-no-new-christmas-songs

RS Live at Caveat NYC, Dec 2nd 2017: http://caveat.nyc/event/reasonably-sound/ An examination of when, and why, we boo and some encouragement to maybe boo a bit more. SOURCES • Dan Rebellato, �...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/037-boo-who

“The custom of showing one's pleasure at music by immediately following it with a noise, usually by clapping but sometimes also by the drumming of feet, is perhaps as old as the art of music it...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/036-put-em-together

"Ruminations" (RM) are short episodes, lightly edited, on topics nonetheless worth discussing. In this Rumination, I talk for a few minutes about what I want to try to do with Reasonably Sound, a...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/rm02-reasonably-sound-mission

It's the end of 2016, so we'll do the thing one tends to do around this time of year: look back. In this episode, a few bits of audio revelry from the End of 2014 episode return, you can get some...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/what-2016-sounded-like

This episode contains offensive language. ---------- In this episode of Reasonably Sound we talk about how it is that through repetition, seemingly innocuous sounds come to be laden with meaning ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/for-whom-the-whistle-blows

An episode about the type of sound The Inception Sound is, the controversy surrounding that sounds authorship, and how it’s effectiveness is deeply rooted in a millennia plus of human culture -...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/the-braaam

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. ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/rs-rm01-slerd-speesh

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 Tu...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/32-light-dinner-conversation

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. ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/31-i-nonlinear-vocalization

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, ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/30-chiptunes

It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he explores the work of corporeal sonificati...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/acoustic-body

Support RS at patreon.com/reasonablysound It’s the stethoscope and the sampler as Mike leads us through “the alien nature of own interiors.” In this journey into the sounds of the body, he...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/29-acoustic-body

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 ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/27-hbd

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...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/27-peace-and-white-noise

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 m...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/26-little-night-muzak

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...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/25-fetish-character

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 vers...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/24-kaboom

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, th...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/23-the-real-song-of-the-summer

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.

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/22-echoic-memory

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.)

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/21-road-trip

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, constru...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/20-the-drop

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 -...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/19-mollys-misophonia

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 -- T...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/18-play-it-for-all-its-worth

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 u...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/17-what-does-the-universe

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.

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/16-active-listening

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. -- Fin...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/15-this-episode-has-subliminal

When an animal makes a sound, does that sound have meaning? Mike talks to Dr. Joe Hanson, a biology expert and curator/host of It's Okay To Be Smart, and you’ll get a glimpse into the world of ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/14-joe-hanson-on-animals-sound

Mike takes you on a tour of the most commonly heard sound effects. And fair warning, when you hear them on this episode, you’ll start hearing them EVERYWHERE. Plus, Mike tells you why sides of ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/13-shopworn-sound-effects

What explains the difference between English and American accents? On this episode of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta explains that this spoken phenomenon starts with the written word. -- On Amer...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/12-the-printing-press-and-the

Mike Rugnetta would like to talk with you about auditory illusions (not tricks), specifically the Shepard tone and binaural beats. Use your headphones for this one. (ALSO: art school college stor...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/10-auditory-illusions

It's a Thanksgiving travelogue with Mike Rugnetta, who, like a bazillion other people, is on the road for the holiday.

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/9-on-the-road-with-mike

A440 is not a steak sauce, nor is it a tax form. Rather, A440 hz is the standard tuning for musical pitch. Why is that? The reasons include, but are not limited to: The oboe, church versus secula...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/8-a440

Taylor Swift accidentally released eight seconds of white noise to iTunes, and it went to number one in Canada. Mike Rugnetta offers his take on it, as well as a helpful explanation what white no...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/7-taylor-swifts-white-noise

Mike Rugnetta and Atlas Obscura‘s Dylan Thuras have a fascinating discussion on the use of sound in war and at what point sound becomes a weapon. Among the topics covered: - World War I “soun...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/6-sound-as-a-weapon

Do you have a favorite sound? Mike Rugnetta has a few: - A Snapple bottle opening - An orchestra tuning, with a couple instruments clearly off-key - A breaking incandescent light bulb In this epi...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/5-whisper-quiet

Mike would like to talk with you about snikt. And sploorp. And butcher some French while he’s at it. Today’s subject is onomatopoeia and the visual representation of sound, particularly in co...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/4-snikt

On this episode of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta considers noise-canceling headphones, whether you use them for cross-country flights or to mute your Simply Red-listening neighbor. He tells you...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/3-the-cadillacs-of-quiet

Mike Rugnetta opens the inaugural Reasonably Sound podcast with an appreciation of the ear, especially the floppy, weird-looking part of it on the side of your head. Turns out it has a purpose be...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/1-the-ear

Why does your voice sound like your voice? A lot of reasons, but Mike's interested in the dispersive mediums that impact it. This also leads to the first Reasonably Sound special guest, musician ...

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/2-the-voice