Contents May Vary: Audio Producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf Talks Podcasts and Music
Episode 57: Audio Producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf Talks Podcasts and Music
This episode’s guest is Myke Dodge Weiskopf. I met Myke through KCRW’s Independent Producer program, as he’s the senior producer in the Music Department. He’s been publicly writing, thinking, and obsessing about music since age 13, when he published his first fanzine on a hand-me-down Apple IIe and a dot-matrix printer.
He is the founding producer of KCRW’s Lost Notes (which I reviewed on my website), and — as he writes on his website — makes beautiful and atmospheric audio stories. A love of sound is the fundamental through-line in his life and work. When he’s not producing audio, he’s an avid outdoorsman, and has worked as a fire lookout under the US Forest Service and volunteered on backcountry trail restoration projects deep in Los Padres National Forest.
Basic show notes:
- Running time is 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 54 seconds
- The initial interview was recorded on August 13, 2023.
- General notes from the interview:
- His website is www.myke.me.
- We talk about his podcast Lost Notes (and my review of it, which you can read here).
- We talk about his podcast Bent By Nature.
- He mentions the website Discogs.
- He mentions the DJs at KCRW for getting new music. One of the newsletters KCRW has is ‘5 Songs of the Week’. You can sign up for it here.
- He mentions Mixcloud as another good place to find music, as well as SoHo Radio and Dublab.
- I mention Radiooooo, which prompts him to bring up Radio Garden.
- I ask him about his Desert Island Discs. This is ‘borrowed’ from the BBC Radio 4 podcast of the same name.
- With gear, he mentions Izotope RX.
- The mid-show plug is from Marco Beltrami, who I interviewed in episode 21.
- I mention my Google Voice and encourage you to call and leave a message about what you’re geeking out about and why. That phone number is 424-341-2252.
- Theme music is “Schoolyard Haze”, by Jari Pitkanen, available via the Free Music Archive. Interested in hearing other episodes or learning where all you can hear (and rate) the podcast? Check out the main podcast page.
So, sit back, relax, and let the interview begin. Stay geeky!
