Author: Grayden Knoll

NASCAR Radioactive has long been a feature of Fox Sports. It takes the radio interactions throughout the race to tell the story in a way that being in the stands, or watching on Television can’t. It shows the in-the-moment, raw emotions of the drivers as they fight for position for 3 or so hours each… Continue reading Radioactive: DAYTONA 500

As shown in my listening party presentation, this is a remixed version of Travis Scott’s ASTROTHUNDER. A small piece of a giant trend on youtube of slowing down songs, changing the pitch of the song and adding reverb to increase the space in which it is being played. I find this trend fascinating because of… Continue reading ASTROTHUNDER – Travis Scott (Slowed & Reverb)

Jaden Smith has released “The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story” in the fall of 2018. A separate project from his then current SYRE album series. This tape stood out to me because it is under shadowed by his larger projects and features a more experimental sound compared to previous work. On this tape, Jaden… Continue reading Distant – Jaden

In this story, Melanie Dunne and sister Marissa Miranda remember Josh Dunne, Melanie’s husband and retired marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Josh then struggled for years with a traumatic brain injury and severe PTSD. This story was paced as a memorandum, with a solemn song in the background of the opening and closing… Continue reading StoryCorps – Grayden Knoll

Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap was released in 2005. You may find that a certain part sounded familiar since it was sampled in Jason Derulo’s 2009 hit single Whatcha’ Say. In this song, Heap makes use of a vocoder setting on a DigiTech Vocalist Workstation harmonizer, a tool that layers live vocal tracks into… Continue reading Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap