WITH DOWNLOADABLE BROADCASTS, ADAM CURRY HELPS USHER RADIO INTO THE DIGITAL AGE
Adam Curry lives for ambient noise. Whether it’s a cough, a sneeze or traffic, Curry makes use of everyday sounds to record his hit podcast, The Daily Source Code. Bloopers don’t exist. Rambling, interruptions, ums, even drawn- out silences become part of his shows.
In Episode 224, he’s vacationing with his family in San Francisco during one of the foggiest summers on record. “… Hold on. I’m reaching back to grab … some money for the toll … [rustling] … It’s foggy again today. You can barely see the Bay Bridge …”
To Curry, 41, and his fans, musings about mundane matters like the weather and driving through tollbooths are aural gems, all part of the intimate sound romps he creates for more than 100,000 listeners worldwide. He likens his audio meanderings to radio’s heyday, when it invoked the “theater of the mind.” “Listening sucks,” he says about today’s corporate-controlled radio and homogenized programming. “When do you hear a room breathe?”
Read it all at Time.com
