Fiction extremely impressed by (digital) actuality, theater that makes the leap to audio, a challenge from the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media (ODA), and humor and gastronomy in English make up the menu of podcasts of this month of April.
‘Digital twins’
To Jorge Carrión, creator of the podcast fictional Solaris, a brand new idea was left floating round in his head: digital twins. They are digital representations of an object or system that spans its life cycle and is up to date based mostly on knowledge in actual time. It could be a particular person or a metropolis. With that concept, he created the brand new story of him.
In it, Fernando Álvarez, a journalist specialised in know-how, divorced and father of two youngsters, receives a message. Someone tells him that in Cross Roads, a scientific neighborhood in Shenzen, China, all the pieces has its digital twin: individuals, homes, even the clouds. And he decides to journey to test it out.
This podcast Fiction essay about this know-how explores in six episodes the human situation in the context of metaverses, digital clones and synthetic intelligence. Science fiction a couple of phenomenon that might turn into pure actuality. With sound design by Teo Rodríguez and the lead voice of actor Pablo Derqui, it’s now obtainable in full on Podium Podcast.
New life to Vargas Llosa’s theater
Coinciding with World Theater Day, on March 27, Audible premiered Odysseus and Penelope and The thousand nights and one night timelibrettos Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa. He is voiced by actors Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Pedro Casablanc. The actress has already carried out each works by the Peruvian creator on stage (and many others in the final 20 years) and she takes benefit of her data of each texts and her characters to provide them new life in audio format.
‘Cut! Decoding fiction’
Once a month, Jesús Blanquiño and Jorge Gonzalo will discover in this video podcast essential points round illustration and narrative in cinema, collection and different modern audiovisual media. Diversity on display from a really particular viewpoint would be the protagonist of every installment and will clarify how this fashion of reflecting the world impacts the collective creativeness and how we will construct extra inclusive references. The first episode is now obtainable, devoted to censorship and resistance in Hollywood, in collaboration with ODA, the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media. In the approaching months it is going to have company comparable to Samantha Hudson, María Rosón and Astrid Jones.
In English: ‘Off menu’
British comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite outstanding individuals to their magical restaurant so that every one can select their favourite starter, primary course, aspect dish, dessert and drink. Have you ever needed to eat the meals of your desires? It is what Off Menu permits your company to do. Until now, the podcast exceeds 130 million downloads. Actor Finn Wolfhard (star of the collection Stranger Things and the brand new film Ghostbusters), Ray Winstone (star of Sexy Beast) and the comic Angela Barnes have just lately handed by that imaginary desk.
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