Weekly Filet #124: The (Fake) Sound of Sport. And more.
This week's top recommendation
You hear Roger Federer hit that smash, you hear Lindsey Vonn carve down the icy slope, you hear Barcelona make 30 passes in a row. Sound has become such an integral part of our experience of watching sports on TV that we hardly ever think about how this sound makes its way to our living room. A lot of technology is used to capture those sounds as authentically as possible. But sometimes, that's not enough. In this fascinating radio feature, sound designers for televised sporting events tell how they work and how they fake sounds so we hear what we expect to hear.
→ Sound for Sport (BBC Radio4)
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→ It Don't Gitmo Better Than This (Vice)
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→ Agony in Aleppo: a city abandoned by the world? (Channel4News)
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→ Minvera (Behance)
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One more thing...
I've refreshed my automatic curation tool Instacurate, which lets you turn your Twitter timeline into a personalised news site. Give it a go!