Paolo Pietropaolo
Paolo Pietropaolo is a freelance producer, broadcaster and composer based in Vancouver, Canada.
He's host of In Concert, CBC Radio's national classical music performance program. His audio documentary work includes the series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on Music, which won a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia and a Third Coast Festival Directors' Choice Award. Pietropaolo wishes he were E major, doesn't mind he has a lot of D-flat major in him, and regrets his E minor moments.
producer
What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good?
If D minor were a person, who would she be?
Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century.
Signal to Noise was produced with the support of a Sound Bank grant from In The Dark, a UK-based collaborative radio project that brings together producers and fans to fund new and innovative radio
This hour we listen in on hearing — a complex system of circuitry that is vulnerable to all sorts of interruptions, misfires and breakdowns.
This hour: what happens when we open our ears to the surprising symphonies all around us.
This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
presenter
Our digital age has catalyzed a kind of chemical reaction: the fission of radio into two related but distinct media, Audio and Radio.
judge
This year we honored the best audio work in the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention), Directors Choice, Best New Artist, Best News Feature, Radio Impact and Audio Luminary.
participant
October 5-7, Orrington Hotel and Campus of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL