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The Ghost in the Codec

The Ghost in the Codec

FromInto the Zone


The Ghost in the Codec

FromInto the Zone

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve discovered their own ways to find a voice within the static.
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Released:
Oct 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (9)

Into the Zone is a podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think. With a novelist’s eye for the unexpected, host Hari Kunzru takes the listener around the world, meeting philosophers and punk musicians, New Age gurus and space explorers, to investigate the gray zone between life and death, public and private, black and white, and more.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.