Episode #305: The Art of Sound - with Scotty Baldwin

Summary

In this episode, Front Of House engineer Scotty Baldwin shares fascinating stories from his career working with top artists in both American and Chinese music. The conversation also dives into archaeoacoustics, the phenomenon related to sound in archaeological sites, and the legend of sasquatch. Listeners are taken on a journey through the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, highlighting the intersection of music and the mysterious.

Key takeaways

• 1Front Of House engineer for major American and Chinese music acts
• 2Discussion of archaeoacoustics and its implications on sound in historical contexts
• 3Exploration of sasquatch as a cryptid often linked to wilderness sightings
• 4Personal anecdotes about navigating the Boundary Waters wilderness
• 5Insights into music production and live sound engineering in major events

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Transcript excerpt

the art of sound with Scotty Baldwin you are listening to Brothers of the serpent podcast and welcome back ladies and gentlemen boys and girls angels and demianss and monsters and serpents this is Brothers of the serpent podcast and we are coming to you not live from the 10 x 10 x 10 tangent cube of science where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high at top of the Edward's Plateau as was threatened last week we have Scotty Baldwin on the episode with us we were uh I think let's see what was it during the patreon it was during the patreon episode we were talking about Scotty and I was like let's get him on next week and Kyle like sends him a message right then during the patreon episode so we have him here Scotty welcome on the show man thanks for coming back I'm here I want to know have you ever messed up the wording I don't think I've ever heard you mess up your intro wording that whole thing I've screwed it up a couple times at least yeah it's pretty impressive definitely messed it up I I try to like I try to change it a little bit to add something relevant to whatever's happening and I and that definitely throws me off track and sometimes I just stumble through the rest of it how did that come how did that come to be it was a slow process of many different when we were first starting we we would each do it and like come up with a little piece and then another piece and and it just slowly like grew and yeah put all this stuff together we kept yeah we kept coming up with...

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Nov 17, 2023. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.