Best Christopher Hobson Podcasts (2024)

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Building DAW Software with Dave Rowland (Tracktion, Prism Sound) | WolfTalk #023 1:40:54

22d ago1:40:54

1:40:54

Dave Rowland is the CTO of Audio Squadron: a group of audio-related companies. More specifically, he’s the architect and the lead developer of the Waveform digital audio workstation (DAW) and an Audio Manager of Prism Sound (which focuses on audio hardware manufacturing). He’s also a very successful speaker, having given talks at conferences like A…

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Audio C++ Architecture, Optimization & Best Practices With Gustav Andersson | WolfTalk #022 1:33:41

2M ago1:33:41

1:33:41

Gustav Andersson is a Swedish senior C++ audio developer at Elk Audio. He has worked on their Sensus guitar featuring a rich set of controls, Elk Audio OS for embedded platforms, Sushi digital audio workstation, and Elk Live software for live music collaboration over the internet. Having studied Electrical Engineering and Digital Signal Processing,…

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In Conversation with Joseph Vogl 1:38:49

2M ago1:38:49

1:38:49

In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Joseph Vogl, who is a Regular Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and until last year, he was Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our conversation focuses on Vogl's most recent book: Capital and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Presen…

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How To Master Real-Time Audio C++ With Fabian Renn-Giles | WolfTalk #021 1:50:16

3M ago1:50:16

1:50:16

In this podcast episode, I was delighted to be able one of the most prominent people of the audio developer landscape: Fabian Renn-Giles. Fabian is a former lead developer of JUCE, currently working as an independent contractor. He has worked with many great companies (e.g., iZotope, Behringer) and has an incredible portfolio. He is regarded as an …

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In Conversation with Guillaume Pitron 1:17:20

3M ago1:17:20

1:17:20

In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Guillaume Pitron, an investigative journalist who has been uncovering and examining the material realities of the unceasing advance of digital technologies, most notably through a pair of books: The Rare Metals War (La Guerre des métaux rares) and The Dark Cloud (L’Enfer numérique). For more information, visi…

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In conversation with Pete Chambers, Q1 2024 1:20:52

5M ago1:20:52

1:20:52

Continuing the conversation with Pete Chambers, this time recorded in-person during a trip to Australia in February 2024. Central to our conversation is the issue of scale, together we think through logics of consumption, transport, travel as they get scaled up and expanded, conditions in which ‘quantity has a quality all its own’. For more informa…

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How To Learn Audio Signal Processing And Audio Circuit Modeling With Eric Tarr | WolfTalk #020 1:23:48

6M ago1:23:48

1:23:48

Eric Tarr is a professor at the Belmont University where he teaches Audio Signal Processing. In the audio programming community, he’s most famous for his book “Hack Audio” on the basics of digital signal processing using Matlab and his point-to-point modeling library for analog audio circuit emulation. Eric’s work has definitely been an inspiration…

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How To Secure Your Audio Code Using Rust With Chase Kanipe | WolfTalk #019 53:30

6M ago53:30

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Chase Kanipe: a cybersecurity professional, a musician, and an audio programmer (formerly C++ with JUCE, currently Rust). Chase is most widely known through his incredible Audio Developer Conference talks: Tips From a Hacker on License Checking at ADC22 Writing Elegant DSP Code with Rust at ADC23 (t…

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How To Transition From Live Sound To Freelance Audio Programming With Ruurd Adema | WolfTalk #018 1:36:42

7M ago1:36:42

1:36:42

In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Ruurd Adema: a freelance audio developer from the Netherlands working primarily in JUCE and C++ (but not only). I met Ruurd at the Audio Developer Conference 2023 and I believe his story is incredibly inspiring; he went from being a live sound engineer doing front-of-house (FOH) mixing at the bigges…

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How Can a Mixing Engineer Become an Audio Programmer with Linus Corneliusson | WolfTalk #017 42:18

7M ago42:18

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In this podcast episode, I was very pleased to guest Linus Corneliusson: a mixing engineer and editing assistant at Fascination Street Studios who has shifted towards audio plugin development. I met Linus (and his colleague Jacek) at the Audio Developer Conference 2022 and he’s definitely one of the most friendly and funny people in the community. …

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Rust Audio Programming with Ian Hobson | WolfTalk #016 1:34:49

8M ago1:34:49

1:34:49

For this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Ian Hobson: a former DJ who transitioned to audio programming, worked at Ableton, and then launched a successful freelancing career. Ian is well-known in the community for his talks on Rust at the Audio Developer Conferences and on YouTube. He’s also created his own programming language: Koto. We m…

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In Conversation with Pete Chambers, late 2023 1:32:12

8M ago1:32:12

1:32:12

In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers. The starting point for this conversation is Naomi Klein’s thought-provoking new book, Doppelganger. Using frames of mirrors, shadows and others, Klein manages to capture something about the deeply weird and warped relations that now prevail between online and the real / …

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Oli Larkin: Creator of iPlug2 and Web Audio Modules | WolfTalk #015 1:47:16

9M ago1:47:16

1:47:16

In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Oliver Larkin: an audio programming legend from the UK. Starting with a passion for music, going through Max, SynthEdit, PureData, then C++ to JavaScript and others, there is no audio technology that's not known to him. He has worked on projects with Arturia and Focusrite (among many more) and nowad…

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In Conversation with Laleh Khalili 1:23:47

11M ago1:23:47

1:23:47

In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Laleh Khalili, the Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, for a conversation about her work on the considering the forgotten space of the sea. She has explored these themes most fully in her 2021 book, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The str…

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In conversation with Pete Chambers, August 2023 1:06:47

12M ago1:06:47

1:06:47

In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers. The starting point for this conversation is the extreme summer the Northern Hemisphere has been experiencing. From there, the discussion moves from how we are individually and collectively (mis)understanding climate change, some of the consequences that come from the res…

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Web Audio Programming Basics With Christoph Guttandin | WolfTalk #014 52:01

12M ago52:01

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Christoph Guttandin: a web audio developer from Berlin, Germany. Chris is a self-taught programmer with a formal training as an audio-visual technician. He’s a freelancer who deals with playing back sound in the browser, sometimes on multiple computers simultaneously. He’s a member of the W3C Audio …

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In conversation with Pete Chambers, July 2023 1:48:01

1y ago1:48:01

1:48:01

In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers, an Australian scholar based at RMIT University. Building on previous conversations, this exchange circles around some big themes related to the forgotten materiality of our world, the difficulties of late capitalism, the fragility and resilience of our supply chains, the…

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How To Create Accessible Audio Software With Jay Pocknell | WolfTalk #013 51:32

1y ago51:32

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Jay Pocknell; a production and mixing engineer from the UK. Not only is he a skilled sound engineer and a lovely person to talk to but also a proactive member of the audio community. He founded the Sound Without Sight organization and currently works at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (…

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Meinard Müller: Professor in Music Information Retrieval | WolfTalk #012 1:04:56

1+ y ago1:04:56

1:04:56

In this podcast episode, you will learn: how Meinard Müller became a professor for Music Information Retrieval at AudioLabs in Erlangen, what are AudioLabs and how they relate to Fraunhofer IIS and the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, how professor Müller approaches doing teaching and research in his research group, how to learn doing research and …

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How To Run Your Neural Networks in an Audio Plugin with Andrew Fyfe | WolfTalk #011 1:02:46

1+ y ago1:02:46

1:02:46

In this episode, I was honored to interview Andrew Fyfe; a musician, a software engineer, and a researcher in the field of deep learning applied to audio. In particular, Andrew is working on an exciting new technology, Neutone. Neutone allows quick deployment of trained neural networks to audio plugins and running them in the digital audio workstat…

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How To Process Sound On The GPU With Sasha Talashov And Jonathan Rowden From GPU Audio | WolfTalk #010 1:14:48

1+ y ago1:14:48

1:14:48

In this episode, I was lucky to interview two members of GPU Audio: Jonathan Rowden and Alexander “Sasha” Talashov. GPU Audio is a software company that promises to deliver real-time audio processing capabilities to GPUs in the form of an easily usable Software Development Kit (SDK). It’s their goal to allow audio programmers to utilize the power o…

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From Audio Research To Own Audio Software Company With Stefano D’Angelo (Orastron, Ex-Arturia) | WolfTalk #009 47:34

1+ y ago47:34

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In this episode, I was incredibly excited to interview Stefano D’Angelo: a freelancer in the field of audio programming. Episode notes: https://thewolfsound.com/talk009 Stefano comes from Italy and is well known in the field. He’s completed his PhD thesis at the Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University, then worked for Arturia for some time, and then …

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Building Audio Teams and Audio Products with Prashant Mishra | WolfTalk #008 56:56

1+ y ago56:56

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In this episode, I was fortunate to interview Prashant Mishra, an Audio Director who is now building audio products and creating awareness about audio tech and game audio. Prashant is an audiophile who has worked as an Audio Director for educational games and videos in collaboration with Disney to create IP-specific sonic experiences, during which …

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In Conversation with PC, late 2022 1:08:05

1+ y ago1:08:05

1:08:05

In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Australian scholar and writer, PC. The conversation explores how to understand the current moment in reference to institutional entropy, questioning whether polycrisis and other conceptual frames might help us comprehend the changes we are experiencing, and considering parallels and th…

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Spatial Audio Basics with Dr Tom McKenzie | WolfTalk #007 16:52

2y ago16:52

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In this episode, I was fortunate to interview Dr Tom McKenzie, a researcher in the field of spatial audio and acoustics and a musician, who is currently working at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in Acoustics and Architectural Acoustics. At the time of the interview (November 2021), Tom was a postdoctoral researcher at the Aalto Acoustics…

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How Can a Musician Become an Audio Programmer with Moritz Schaller | WolfTalk #006 58:28

2y ago58:28

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In this podcast episode, I had the privilege to interview Moritz Schaller: a professional musician who turned programmer and successfully transitioned into a software engineering position. Moritz is a colleague of mine from Loudly GmbH. Not only is he a skilled and smart programmer but also a great person who is extremely likeable. I am sure that i…

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How to Build Your Own Audio Hardware Company with Steve Barile | WolfTalk #005 1:35:32

2y ago1:35:32

1:35:32

In this podcast episode, I was happy to interview Steve Barile from Conductive Labs. Steve was a 9-5 employee of Intel, until he and his best friend Darryl, started experimenting with building their own audio hardware. First prototypes led to concrete product ideas, which led to a crowdfunding campaign, which led to founding a successful business..…

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In Conversation with PC, again 1:23:26

2+ y ago1:23:26

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In this final episode of the first season of 'Imperfect World', Christopher Hobson speaks again with PC, a scholar and writer based in Melbourne. Building on their discussion in episode 2, Hobson and PC think about the problem of the world no longer being made to fit humans, and specifically the consequences of our world effectively becoming too fa…

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Depp -v- Heard - part 2 A run down of the allegations 41:28

2+ y ago41:28

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In our last instalment of the Depp -v- Heard story (part 1) we looked at the beginning of the relationship between the couple followed by her now infamous application for a restraining order which led to the publicity of the alleged domestic violence in their marriage and ended in their attending a libel trial in the UK where Judge Nichol rule, on …

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Depp -v- Heard part 1 - The background 27:25

2+ y ago27:25

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I am a huge fan of Johnny Depp, what is not to like about him? He is handsome, kooky, stars in amazing films and his posters covered my walls when I was a teenager, by the same token I know little to nothing about Amber Heard except what I have read or seen in news and online in recent months and years following her much publicised marriage and spl…

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The horrendous death of "Pricey" 51:58

2+ y ago51:58

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In February 2000 Police were called to an address in Australia and found a victim mutilated beyond belief The killer, a middle aged woman with 4 children who became known as Australia's most notorious female murderer Today we tell the story of John "Pricey" Price and his on and off relationship with Katherine Knight who was the first woman in Austr…

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In Conversation with Andrew Pickering 1:09:09

2+ y ago1:09:09

1:09:09

Christopher Hobson speaks with Andrew Pickering, a leading historian of science, known for his sociological studies of scientific practices and knowledge production in books such as Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science, and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future.…

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In Conversation with Elke Schwarz 1:17:10

2+ y ago1:17:10

1:17:10

Christopher Hobson speaks with Elke Schwarz, a scholar working on the political and ethical implications of digital technologies and autonomous systems. Recently, she has been returning to the insights of Günther Anders, a 20th century thinker who foreshadowed the dangers that come with untethered technological development. Applying Anders' thinkin…

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Update on Star Hobson's Mother & The tragic tale of Hero Richard Woodcock 33:09

2+ y ago33:09

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The mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson has had her sentence for causing or allowing her daughter's death increased to 12 years. The jail sentence handed to the mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson was "too low", the attorney general said at the end of 2021 Attorney General Suella Braverman said this was "unduly lenient" and referred the sente…

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In Conversation with Sun-ha Hong 1:01:14

2+ y ago1:01:14

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Christopher Hobson speaks with Sun-ha Hong, a scholar critically analysing the claims of big data. Hong’s work fits within the framing of this series, given his emphasis on the considerable imperfections present in data and the way it is used, along with the dangers that come from taking it as objective truth about how the world really ‘is’. Rather…

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In Conversation with Gabriele de Seta 55:36

2+ y ago55:36

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Christopher Hobson speaks with Gabriele de Seta, a scholar working on machine vision, digital media and related technologies in China. The conversation develops around his piece on the Chinese term ‘black technology’ (heikeji 黑科技) which has become a buzzword in China for describing the most advanced kind of technologies. We talk about the emergence…

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Death in police custody the Christopher Alder tragedy 55:17

2+ y ago55:17

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This podcast is created by Kel Visit our website for more information With Malice Aforethought UK |a UK crime forum podcast & blog (wixsite.com) Follow us on Twitter @aforethoughtuk @aforethoughtuk With Malice Aforethought UK #truecrimeblog #truecrimepodcast #truecrimestories #armchairdetective #legal #murder #pyschology #mystery Please listen to o…

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In Conversation with L.M. Sacasas 1:35:31

2+ y ago1:35:31

1:35:31

Christopher Hobson speaks with L.M. Sacasas, who has become a leading voice in examining the ethical, social and cultural consequences of technologies. His prior blog, The Frailest Thing, and current Substack newsletter, The Convivial Society, offer a wealth of insight, encouraging a greater awareness of the ways that technologies shape the conditi…

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In Conversation with Claire Benn 48:50

2+ y ago48:50

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Christopher Hobson speaks with Claire Benn, a philosopher who explores how our growing reliance on digital technologies are impacting our moral landscape, and the ethical challenges that come from a world shaped by machines. In this conversation, Claire points to the importance of thinking about how humans think, feel and act, and considering wheth…

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A Family torn apart, was the motive revenge, or something more sinister? 50:15

2+ y ago50:15

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On 19th December of 1983 Kathleen had a busy day at work ahead of her and had arranged to go shopping after work for Christmas presents for the girls. However, that morning Terri was not feeling well and decided to remain home from school and Kathleen promised to check in on her by telephone during the day. The she left the house for work. At aroun…

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In Conversation with PC 1:04:06

2+ y ago1:04:06

1:04:06

Christopher Hobson speaks with PC, a scholar and writer based in Melbourne, who has recently started a substack called, Living together, somehow. The conversation commences with PC's reflections on the experience of tailgating, which are used as a way of thinking about how certain technologies shape our engagement with each other and the world. Fro…

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In Conversation with David Cayley 1:03:29

2+ y ago1:03:29

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In this episode, Christopher Hobson speaks with David Cayley, who spent much of his career producing long-form radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As part of this work, Cayley recorded a series of interviews with Ivan Illich, whose thinking on the way that technologies are reshaping people, as well as his acute critiques of ma…

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Introduction 8:01

2+ y ago8:01

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This is a brief introduction to ‘Imperfect World’, hosted by Christopher Hobson, a scholar and writer based in Japan. It builds on the writings found on his substack newsletter, 'Imperfect Notes on an Imperfect World'. To begin with, this conversation series will focus broadly on thinking about the relationship between society and technology. We ne…

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Who was there to catch a falling Star? 30:34

2+ y ago30:34

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Bouncer and security guard Savannah Brockhill, 28, was jailed for life at Bradford Crown Court in December 2021 for murdering Star Hobson the daughter of her partner Frankie Smith at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire in September 2020. Star's mother Frankie Smith, 20, was sentenced to eight years for causing or allowing the youngster's death. Th…

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Deep Learning for Virtual Analog Modeling with Alec Wright | WolfTalk #004 33:39

2+ y ago33:39

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview another member of the Aalto Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. He is involved in research applying deep learning to audio, for example, in the context of Virtual Analog modeling of guitar amplifiers. He was also the advisor of my Master Thesis.In this podcast episode, you will …

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Challenges Of Beginner Audio Researchers & How To Overcome Them With Jon Fagerström | WolfTalk #003 38:16

2+ y ago38:16

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview another member of the Aalto Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. Jon Fagerström is conducting his PhD research in the domain of audio signal processing, specifically, sampling synthesis and artificial reverberation. We are discussing what challenges beginning researchers face, ho…

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How To Start a Career In Audio Research With Leonardo Fierro | WolfTalk #002 1:08:04

2+ y ago1:08:04

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In this episode, I had the privilege to interview Leonard Fierro, a PhD student at the Aalto Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.Leonardo comes from Italy and transitioned from Communications to Audio Signal Processing. He's currently (as of 2021) in his third year of the doctoral studies. His focus is on time-scale modification…

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The strange Life and death of the I-70 Strangler 31:07

3y ago31:07

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Herb Baumesiter - (un)successful businessman - family man - serial killer Herb was an odd character - strange goings on in the workplace and mannequins partying in the pool house, but no one could have anticipated that this man was responsible for up to 22 murders in and around Indianapolis Reports suggest his school friends talked of his having a …

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How I Got Started With Audio Programming (And How You Can Too!) | WolfTalk #001 41:00

3y ago41:00

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WolfSound is all about making it easy for you to learn audio programming. We remove the requirements to read thick books, pay for expensive courses, and attend universities for years. This podcast episode is meant to give you an example way to learn audio programming: my way. I want to share my story with you so that you can relate and believe that…

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The Chillenden Murders of Lin & Megan Russell & the Miraculous survival of Josie PART 2 25:15

3y ago25:15

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on 9th July 1997, on the first anniversary of the attack, using evidence gleaned from several eyewitnesses in the area and brave Josie's testimony, BBC TV decided to run a Crimewatch reconstruction of the day in a hope of jogging people's memories or getting another lead to point Police in the right direction. Following that reconstruction a Psychi…

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