{"id":13495,"date":"2015-06-07T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2015-06-07T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:09:10","slug":"99-invisible-voices-on-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/99-invisible-voices-on-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"99% Invisible: &#8220;Voices on the Wire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Radio-Dial-Blurred-Dark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12846\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Radio-Dial-Blurred-Dark.jpg\" alt=\"Radio-Dial-Blurred-Dark\" width=\"1000\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Radio-Dial-Blurred-Dark.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Radio-Dial-Blurred-Dark-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of you know that I&#8217;m a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">99% Invisible<\/a>&#8211;a podcast and radio show <a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">about<\/a> &#8220;design, architecture &amp; the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This past week, 99% Invisible&#8217;s episode,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/voices-in-the-wire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voices on the Wire<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0featured\u00a0Tony Schwartz, a recording pioneer, and Frank Conrad, a broadcasting pioneer. While not specifically about shortwave radio, you&#8217;ll hear how the ether weaved its way through both of their histories.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that Roman Mars, creator of 99% Invisible, is quite a fan of shortwave radio. <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/david-gorens-numbers-station-piece-featured-on-99-invisible\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indeed, in the past, he&#8217;s featured our friend, David Goren<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/Shortwaveology.net\" target=\"_blank\">Shortwaveology.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0listen to <em>Voices on the Wire<\/em>\u00a0and read the show notes <a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/voices-in-the-wire\/\" target=\"_blank\">on 99% Invisible&#8217;s website<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/roman-mars\/99-invisible-167-voices-in-the-wire\/download\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the episode as an MP3 file<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded SoundCloud player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/208546490&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Note that the Tony Swartz segment was originally produced by \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitchensisters.org\/stories\/lost-found-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, from their series Lost and Found Sound<\/a>; the segment on Frank Conrad was originally produced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiodiaries.org\/conrads-garage\/\" target=\"_blank\">by Radio Diaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And, hey&#8230;if you happen to be chatting with Roman Mars anytime soon, ask him to do more shows on shortwave radio:\u00a0a technology I consider to be the\u00a0ultimate invisible medium!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you know that I&#8217;m a huge fan of 99% Invisible&#8211;a podcast and radio show about &#8220;design, architecture &amp; the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.&#8221; This past week, 99% Invisible&#8217;s episode,\u00a0Voices on the Wire,\u00a0featured\u00a0Tony Schwartz, a recording pioneer, and Frank Conrad, a broadcasting pioneer. While not specifically about shortwave radio, you&#8217;ll hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3,305,288,43],"tags":[2435,3880,3883,3884,3881,3882,3879],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-99-invisible","tag-frank-conrad","tag-lost-and-found-sound","tag-radio-diaries","tag-roman-mars","tag-the-kitchen-sisters","tag-tony-schwartz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3vF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8375,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/david-gorens-numbers-station-piece-featured-on-99-invisible\/","url_meta":{"origin":13495,"position":0},"title":"David Goren&#8217;s numbers station piece featured on 99% Invisible","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We've mentioned \"Shortwaveologist\" David Goren on the SWLing Post multiple times. 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