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All Episodes - Note By Note

In her podcast outlining the little quirks and grand epics the history of modern music has to offer, Vaishnavi Suren allows listeners to join her in learning how humans have shaped sound, how sound has shaped humans, and how musicians of the past have laid the foundations for our future endeavors of song—note by note.

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2 Episodes

Soul and the Civil Rights Movement

06/03/2020 20 min 52 sec

Vaishnavi provides an overview of soul, an African-American music genre with important political ties to the Civil Rights Movement, at the time of its height, the 1950s to 70s.

Autotune

05/21/2020 12 min 26 sec

In the first episode of Note by Note, Vaishnavi explores the mechanics of and unusual history behind Autotune, a program used to adjust singers' notes to match their music.