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How Music Does That A podcast about how music communicates emotion in a language you don't even know you know.

Hi folks! HMDT is obviously on hiatus again. I've been putting all of my energy into a brilliant nonpartisan nonprofit t...
02/11/2024

Hi folks! HMDT is obviously on hiatus again. I've been putting all of my energy into a brilliant nonpartisan nonprofit that works with election officials nationwide to secure elections, protect election workers, and push back on mis- and disinformation.

Part of that has involved producing a limited series podcast hosted by David Becker, one of the foremost election experts in the country. Listen at the link below.

If I'm able to get back to HMDT, it will be after the inauguration, but so much depends on so many things. Thanks for your support all these years—Dale

A limited-series podcast about how the civic act of counting votes became embroiled in deceit, rage, and insurrection - and how we can find our way back.

One film score changed everything.
12/08/2024

One film score changed everything.

‎Show How Music Does That, Ep The 1977 Line - Aug 11, 2024

Sure, three is a magic number. But eight haunts my soul.
24/07/2024

Sure, three is a magic number. But eight haunts my soul.

Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.

14/12/2023

At the beginning of today's episode, I mentioned that I worked on one for a month before getting bogged down and setting it aside (for now). It's based on the greatest question I ever got from a theory student: “I understand what a chord is, but I don't understand what they have to do with the music.”

Part of the challenge of the episode is illustrating just how great that question is. I'll get to it.

After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong. This is how music does that.
14/12/2023

After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong. This is how music does that.

‎Show How Music Does That, Ep Anatomy of an Earworm - Dec 14, 2023

They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names. Listen to UNSUNG from How Music...
15/10/2023

They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.

Listen to UNSUNG from How Music Does That.

‎Show How Music Does That, Ep Unsung - Oct 15, 2023

HOW MUSIC DOES THAT is back with a lot of POW! And also zu-zu-zu.
30/09/2023

HOW MUSIC DOES THAT is back with a lot of POW! And also zu-zu-zu.

‎Show How Music Does That, Ep The King of Space-Age Pop! - Sep 30, 2023

03/09/2023

Two years ago I took a hiatus from the How Music Does That podcast to focus on OnlySky. Now things have relaxed a bit, and I find myself missing the creative outlet of that show.

I decided I wouldn't even consider a relaunch until I had ten episode ideas. Yesterday I sat down to list some. Apparently I have 58. Heh.

So stand by for relaunch 🤓

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A Podcast About How Music Does That

How Music Does That is a podcast about the astonishing fact that someone can make you feel intense and specific emotions just by arranging sounds in a certain way.

Since the show launched in September 2018, we’ve covered such topics as the evolution of cool, the element of surprise in music, why Barber’s Adagio breaks my heart, a bass line partly invented by Galileo’s dad, an interval so cool it was banned by the church for 1,000 years, John Williams, John Cage, Johnny Cash, and the Pokémon su***de song.

Thanks for listening! -- Dale

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