The Issues Digest Audio Blog is now online!
Listen here (and press the Play triangle if you’d rather not wait for your browser to start playing the program) 😀
Hear the content of the other tabs on this website narrated and streamed in audio form. The overarching concept is to celebrate our mutually shared humanity and advance everyone’s sense of shared human roots in the context of our current era.
This audio blog is actually an Internet radio station, which is online 24/7. Each hour will have a couple of items from the IsDig text blog (this site), with classical music interspersed in between. You could also listen to it as a music station, as most of the broadcast time consists of music.
All of the music played is Public Domain (effectively CC0)—except for the sounder theme that plays soon after the top of the hour, which I wrote myself in LilyPond.
The rationale for only 2 blog items per hour is:
(1) Non-stop chatter is tedious to listen to, and
(2) Very few of the blog items are over 5 minutes long—with music usually for 20 or more minutes before the next blog item I hope that for some people it would be enjoyable to just listen to the music, with me occasionally having my say each hour.
And there will be enough blog items (and music pieces too) to not hear a repeat item at least for several hours, and often not in the same day.
If you’d like to review something from an article you caught only a part of while listening, the articles are there to read at issuesidgest.com (this website). Use the Search field near the bottom of each page to find where a word you heard is mentioned to get more context.
I hope that by putting blog content in audio form it will be more accessible for more people. Also older (but still current!) blog items recur per the automated scheduling program, but no hour will be a replica of another—this should help you to listen as long as you like without listener fatigue.
Enjoy the Issues Digest Audio Blog!
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