Sonic Society #733- Sonic Cinema Reimagined

This week the masters of audio re-imaginings, John Barber and Marc Rose and The Voices perform Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" with some samples from Jack J. Ward's "Great Day for a War" to provide present day context. "The Fall of the City" follows the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator and the ambiguous relationship humans have with freedom. We want freedom but we also like order and structure. How much freedom and liberty are we willing to give up to enjoy order and structure? Because of this ambiguity, we both fear and welcome the conqueror. So in with the old and mixed with the new!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices