{"id":2453,"date":"2011-12-30T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2011-12-30T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:53:15","slug":"a-nostalgic-cold-war-shortwave-audio-montage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-nostalgic-cold-war-shortwave-audio-montage\/","title":{"rendered":"A nostalgic Cold War shortwave audio montage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Mike Barraclough for bringing this video\/audio to my attention. According to Mike, this audio montage was featured in an edition of Communications World in October 2000. It&#8217;s an amazing mixture of Cold War era audio recorded entirely on the shortwave spectrum. Enjoy via embedded video below, or <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJ3ZAUEpnJA\" target=\"_blank\">click here to view directly on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJ3ZAUEpnJA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Source: Paul Dougherty)<\/p>\n<p>Cold War Shortwave was created in 1989 using off-air recordings made while I was traveling in Europe circa 1985. This was a time when propaganda was harsh, before the Gorbachev inspired thaw. The collage was done with Soundwave from Impulse, my first experience with non-linear, random access editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Mike Barraclough for bringing this video\/audio to my attention. According to Mike, this audio montage was featured in an edition of Communications World in October 2000. It&#8217;s an amazing mixture of Cold War era audio recorded entirely on the shortwave spectrum. Enjoy via embedded video below, or click here to view directly on [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,305,746],"tags":[752,753,754,737],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-shortwave-audio","tag-paul-dougherty","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Dz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19408,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-moscow-1984\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Moscow 1984","author":"Thomas","date":"June 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019ve just posted yet another excellent recording by Jim Jordan to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. 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