Friday, May 18, 2007

who hearts toronto?

well even if you don't love, or yet love toronto, maybe you'll feel more appreciative of the city after hearing this special broadcast - invisible cities: toronto - airing tonight only on the CBC, at 9:05 local time (that's 9:30 NT ) across canada. it's streaming too, so if you're interesting in diving in this page can help you figure out exactly how/when to do that.

according to paolo pietropaolo, one of the producers, "It's part radio documentary, part audio-musical composition, and part audio love-letter to the city of Toronto, combining the voices, sounds and music of the city in an hour-long journey that's meant to allow the listener to achieve a kind of shortcut to intimacy with the city, focusing on sounds that are lost in the din of contemporary life."

invisible cities: toronto is brought to you by the same team (paolo, chris brookes and jowi taylor) who produced one of my favorite radio programs EVER a few years ago -
the wire (nothing to do with the tv show). so i'm betting this program will astound your ears and very well MAY instill a deep love for toronto in your heart. or at least a deep like.

[ i, for one, still remember an amazing veggie hot dog purchased from a hot dog stand at about 1am one morning years ago, in the pouring rain. my crush on the city started then.]

2 comments:

jugrote said...

I seem to remember purchasing a Shawarma around the time of your veggie hot dog run:

http://tinyurl.com/2j5qcs

Perhaps perchance?

Oh, the Wire -- I just listened to an episode yesterday. Forgot about it since airing it over a year ago, a pleasant revisitation, and I'm sure this IC:T will be equally sound-satisfying.

jatomic said...

but was it a veggie shawarma? THAT would be truly memorable...