Medium Rotation features artists, writers, musicians, and scholars probing the conditions and countering the received ideas of our time (and other times), along with Triple Canopy editors. Each season is animated by the concerns of an issue of the magazine. The first season, Omniaudience, asks how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.
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Medium Rotation features artists, writers, musicians, and scholars probing the conditions and countering the received ideas of our time (and other times), along with Triple Canopy editors. Each season is animated by the concerns of an issue of the magazine. The first season, Omniaudience, asks how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.
“Liveness becomes a recording.” Tashi Wada, a composer and performer, presents music for a “high-resolution player piano” and reflects on technologies that claim to capture the souls of performers. In his composition, Wada asks how we discern between human expression and technical perfection, how we listen to virtuosos and machines. He speaks with the hosts, Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan, about the pandemic-era vogue for liveness at home, the displacement of pianists by piano rolls (or proprietary software), and the differences between people and marionettes.
Medium Rotation
Medium Rotation features artists, writers, musicians, and scholars probing the conditions and countering the received ideas of our time (and other times), along with Triple Canopy editors. Each season is animated by the concerns of an issue of the magazine. The first season, Omniaudience, asks how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.
