Blake Cooper
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- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Blake Cooper
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Sounds Familiar #7: Footsteps
(11:38)
From: Blake Cooper
Foley artists are the unsung performers behind the Hollywood blockbusters. They design and perform the sounds you hear in the movies, from fistfights to footsteps. I spent a ...
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Something's Missing
(03:32)
From: Blake Cooper
An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.
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Sounds Familiar #6: Series in Decline
(10:37)
From: Blake Cooper
It's happened again. Your favorite TV show is beginning to lose its appeal. Now the shark has been jumped, and there's no going back. Now what?
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Sounds Familiar #5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror.
(17:00)
From: Blake Cooper
In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films: “these films hate women.” ...
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Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
(13:06)
From: Blake Cooper
Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?
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Sounds Familiar #2: Bad Translations
(11:35)
From: Blake Cooper
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among others, to find out.
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Sounds Familiar #1: The Drums From "Be My Baby" and the Life of a Meme
(13:07)
From: Blake Cooper
The debut episode! We're looking at the famous BUM. ba-BUM CH! and why it's been so influential, and so imitated, over the years.
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From Primate to Prosperity: or, What Koga the Gorilla Can Teach Buffalo About Thinking Outside th...
(03:23)
From: Blake Cooper
Koga the gorilla made an international splash after this week's escape attempt from the Buffalo Zoo. Could this be the unlikely path to prosperity our city's been waiting for?
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