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Do you feel just fine catching a nice song? Maybe you breathe out finding a perfection before your eyes, or just like to recognise something that turned over all the game? I'm happy, because I'm the same. Culture Digger is the easy-going podcast describing cultural phenomenas, personalities and events, architecture and design, and too many other interesting stuff. Episodes come out every Wednesday and last 15 minutes or less with some rare exceptions. My name is Sandy Riffs, have a great day and the clearest view, I'll try to complement it!

Sandy Riffs

  • Oct 1, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 13m AVG DURATION
  • 15 EPISODES


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Expression freedom of the architect. Aillaud Towers (The Tours Aillaud) / 014

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 15:43


Do you know how unique are the towers by Emile Aillaud? I'll give you a brief review on this strange and beautiful residential complex, located in Paris suburbs, also we'll think about the expression freedom of the architect after this controversial example.https://tinyurl.com/yyhx6snthttps://tinyurl.com/y4ck8wvthttps://tinyurl.com/yybhrh8nhttps://tinyurl.com/y3go3ul7https://tinyurl.com/y6orlm8s

I've bought a mandoline! Value of hobbies / activities. Light episode / 013

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 13:33


Here Sandy thinks over the Culture Digger, its goals, shares advice about hobbies, why it's important to set yourself free to start it, and speaks about beautiful musical instruments - lutes and mandolines. Very easy episode, next will be more educational :-) Requested reviews of Podcast Rec Segment: https://tinyurl.com/y2rj435k - Trashy Trashy. My recommendation - TMIR Podcast https://tinyurl.com/yxlex94x

1969. Upbeat, break-beat, jungle, DnB started after this intensive funk? Amen break - musical treasure! / 012

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2020 13:52


(no religious content) BEFORE / AFTER EP. TURN ON AMEN BREAK HERE: https://tinyurl.com/yylsncl6 review of a story of the most popular sample in electronic music, part of "Amen, My Brother" by the Winstons. These magic drums were performed by talented Sir Richard Colson, 1969. Warning, this ep. contains my nonsense :) Sources: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-sampled-song-of-all-time/ https://mixmag.net/feature/the-20-best-mid-90s-hip-hop-tracks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break

Kandinsky. Artist. Bauhaus resident. Pioneer of abstractionism / 011

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2020 20:50


Wassily Kandinsky - one of the most influental painters of abstractionism. Let's dig in! 1/ Intro & Who was W. K. 2/ Bio milestones 3/ Bauhaus, VHUTEMAS 4/ Decoding the style 5/ Phases of artSources: https://tinyurl.com/yxg6r9wm https://tinyurl.com/yxo6jywu https://tinyurl.com/y55g7t6c https://tinyurl.com/y3p4pzt8 https://tinyurl.com/9hjngzj https://tinyurl.com/yxg6r9wm https://tinyurl.com/y55sbnlj https://tinyurl.com/y34x8wej https://tinyurl.com/y3ef6vfs https://tinyurl.com/y47mrcnh

Why I do love film photography. 2nd Special. Extra subjective / 10

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 13:30


Here Sandy tells, why he loves so much film shooting, slightly compares digital and film photos, can't just bring it without any personal advice, and recommends to listen to podcast prod. by Marcus dePaula - The Photo Untaken Podcast. Stories from outside the frame, @meonlylouder in Tw. https://tinyurl.com/y6zhb, podcast: https://tinyurl.com/y55w7qfm Start of episode is a tribute to old radio era, 1930s or smith around :-)

Teaser / Episode 10

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2020 0:36


With this teaser I put my love to old time radio, and to radio at all. Next episode gonna be released in Wednesday evening. The audio is quieter than others to save your ears :-) I recommend you to visit my Twitter to discuss the topics, ask any questions or to provide any comments: https://twitter.com/culturedigger.

G. Eiffel. Besides the Tower and the Statue of Liberty: great engineer, architect, forerunner of the avant-garde age / 09

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2020 13:48


The pioneer and inventor, talented engineer and architect, Gustave Eiffel is an incredible creator. We can see his creations, that became the treasure for different parts of the world. In Ep. #09 Sandy will try to discover, what else should we know about projects by G. Eiffel. He is not only about the symbol of Paris. He was a breakthrough actually. Sources: https://tinyurl.com/yxr6xcel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel https://tinyurl.com/yyk6ww2j

Responsibility of musician / band. Emotional perception/influence. Tips for beginners. I won't be a psychodigger, really / 08

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 13:07


Here Sandy digs into a psychology a bit. Again. He loves it. What should understand creator of music, that provides it in public? What is the advice to the listeners, especially, if he / she / whoever is pretty sensitive? Also, here you will find tips for musicians, starting their way. From someone who didn't start else. Ridiculous, but it exists.Listen to Daft Punk - Georgio here:https://youtu.be/zhl-Cs1-sG4

Rock'n'roll boats. 1960's Pirate radio stations in the UK / 07

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 11:08


Here Sandy discovers, how radio in Britain got its popular music in everyday mode. Radio Caroline, Radio London and others gave that freedom. Sources:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom https://time.com/4955482/pirate-radio-bbc-1-rock-history/ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120358447 https://www.redbull.com/int-en/a-brief-history-of-pirate-radio-stations

The Barnum Effect. Antidote to horoscopes & socionics addiction? B.R. Forer's experiment / 06

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2020 19:26


The Barnum Effect (Forer Effect) is a wonderful piece of knowledge, the result of the psychological experiment by B. Forer, which should be known. Its acknowledge can help to break free to people addicted to horoscopes, socionics and other fakes. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect https://britannica.com/science/Barnum-Effect

SPECIAL: The Best albums of 90s. Extra subjective episode / 05

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 14:25


What a moment for Sandy - relax and talk about smth favourite. You won't find a research in ep. with SPECIAL and "Extra subjective" labels, but there're direct feelings & emotions. Exclusively in #05, there is a special pronounce of "adult" word that repeats. Nevermind, The Great Escape, what more can take a line? Podcastage and Bandew Says Podcast (Geeks Rising/Bandrew Scott) links: https://youtube.com/podcastage https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bandrew-says-podcast/id1046423132

Age of hats: what it was? How did it finish? Can the history repeat it? / 04

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2020 12:56


In this Episode Sandy explores the cultural phenomena of hat-wearing age, when everybody wore hat, or cap, and couldn't leave the house without it. What were the reasons to such an element of daily culture? What stopped that tradition? Can this element of wardrobe come back as a must-have daily item? Articles to discover: https://www.esquireme.com/style/why-did-men-stop-wearing-hats https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/old-hat-why-the-heady-days-are-over-495010.html

Architecture section. When does architecture appear in your life? How to start to recognise architecture? / 03

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 11:41


The third episode of Culture Digger is about:1/ When does Architecture starts in your life? One of versions /2/ Sandy’s experience of meeting Architecture as type of art /3/ Slight overview of daily environment and visual perception /4/ What factors does Architecture depends on? /5/ One more compare of incomparable: Architecture and Pop-music /6/ Sandy’s advice: how to start to recognise Architecture?

Audio copyright. How does it help radio to stay alive? / 02

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 12:08


The second episode starts with an explanation of Culture Digger podcast, goes up to the subject of audio protection in 2020 and few cases with it. After extra short article review, Sandy talks about the life of radio and shares one more strange idea about radio’s tool which helps it to resist to modern world. Sources: https://www.rbr.com/youtubes-revenue-its-bigger-than-u-s-radio/

Acoustic guitar. Electric guitar. Can we find any challenge between two unmatchable musical instruments? / 01

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 15:20


In this episode Sandy talks about the roots of an acoustic and electric guitar, tries to assess the role of the electric guitar in music of the 20th century, and then shares his opinion, is there any challenge between two types or guitars, or it’s a really flat idea.Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-slow-secret-death-of-the-electric-guitar/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/439891/number-of-acoustic-guitars-sold-in-the-us/

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