Pod-Alization: Enhance Your Audio; TV Show Rewritten As Podcast; Case 63 Fiction; Noble Champions

 Spotify improves the sound quality of podcasts

 This story is for podcasters or for listeners who want the crispest audio available when listening to their favorite podcasts.

 Spotify is introducing Audio Enhancements, a new feature that helps improve the sound quality of podcasts directly within the Anchor mobile app. With one tap, Audio Enhancements airbrushes messy audio to make creators sound their best — regardless of their recording setup. 

To use Audio Enhancements, podcast creators using the Anchor mobile app just need to tap “enhance” after recording is finished, then let the technology automatically remove background noise and level voices for consistent volume. The aim is to help creators on-the-go or with less sophisticated recording equipment improve the audio quality to help them sound more clear and professional. Audio Enhancements is available to Anchor creators around the world. 

 

 You can read more about Audio Enhancements on the official Anchor blog HERE.

 

 TV show, The Rosenberg Case, rewritten as true-crime podcast

Actor and producer Oscar Isaac – who has appeared in movies such as “Star Wars” and “Ex Machina” and won a Golden Globe for his role on the HBO miniseries “ Show Me A Hero” – is becoming the latest Hollywood star to jump into podcasting. Isaac is teaming with writer Edgar Castillo to executive produce and star in a new true-crime series for Calvary Audio. The podcast, called The Rosenberg Case, was initially written as a TV series. But the team at Cavalry Audio says it saw its “immediate potential” to be a great true-crime podcast, and so that is where the story will first appear.

“We’re incredibly excited to have Oscar as a partner and to lend his voice to hauntingly recreate Rodrigo’s final words," said Cavalry Audio’s Jason Seagraves. "We absolutely loved Edgar’s pilot script and felt it was advantageous to lead with a podcast first. With all the rich details surrounding this story, the podcast format allows Edgar space to present all the unbelievable twists and turns of this riveting international true crime conspiracy — some of which are being heard for the first time." 

The Rosenberg Case tells the story of the bizarre assassination of Rodrigo Rosenberg, an influential Guatemalan lawyer who was gunned down while on his Sunday morning bike ride in 2009. At his funeral, Rosenberg posthumously released a YouTube video that declared “If you’re seeing this video, it means that I've been murdered by President Alvaro Colom,” who was Guatemala's then-sitting President. What followed was a major political upheaval and one of the most unpredictable murder investigations in history. 

Castillo is a first-generation Guatemalan-American whose parents came to the United States fleeing the violence of the Guatemalan Civil War. He’s currently a writer on the CBS television series “FBI: International.” The podcast expands his relationship with Calvary. Castillo’s feature “The Big Adios” was recently acquired by Star Thrower and Cavalry Media.

The 10-episode series is narrated by Castillo and produced by Cavalry Audio’s Jason Seagraves.

"Moore" about the Case 63 fiction podcast

 Spotify’s hit fiction audio series “Case 63” is a favorite for audiences, based on downloads and listens.  

Case 63 features the voices of Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, and is the highly anticipated English language adaption of “Caso 63,” Spotify’s most listened to scripted Original podcast in Latin America originally produced in Santiago, Chile. It continues the global success of its predecessor “Caso 63,” which has been No. 1 Chile, Mexico, and Colombia and No. 2 in Argentina. 

Case 63 follows Dr. Eliza Knight (Moore), a New York psychiatrist, as she begins treating a patient registered as Case 63 (Isaac) who claims to be from the year 2062. What begins as routine therapeutic sessions quickly turns into a story that threatens the boundaries of the possible and the real. The series is produced by Spotify’s Gimlet studios, Moore’s production company FortySixty, and Isaac’s Mad Gene Media, with both Moore and Isaac serving as executive producers on the podcast.

"Case 63 was my very first audio experience, and I was able to see firsthand how immersive and impactful podcasting is as a mode of storytelling,” said Julianne Moore. “It is a thrilling and timely story - incredibly mysterious and romantic, suspenseful, and strange. And the opportunity to work with my friends Oscar Isaac and Mimi O’Donnell made the recording a joy. I hope everyone will enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it. Case 63 is exactly the kind of story that I love.”

“I’m a big fan of the original Case 63, and it was great to be able to partner with Spotify and Julianne on this adaption,” said Oscar Isaac.  

You can listen to Case 63 here.

 Noble Champions latest episode on race and climate change

 

The latest episode on Noble Champions, the brand new Talkhouse network podcast created and hosted by Santigold is joined by rapper, poet, actor and director Saul Williams, plus climate justice writer and Hot Take podcast host Mary Annaïse Heglar to talk about the intersection of race and climate change. 

 

Together they discuss how it impacts the future of our world in an engaging, ultimately uplifting hour that touches on Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent trip to Africa, the landmark climate legislation just passed by the U.S. Senate, the assassination of the former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Patrice Lumumba, and more.

 

 The podcast's title is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Kandinsky once said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression. Santigold and "fellow champions" try to make sense out of our world, and push culture forward. 

Talkhouse has been become known for artist-centric, first-person programming with Santigold's Noble Champions, as well as Kimbra's Playing With Fire podcast. Talkhouse's recent podcast series also include Björk: Sonic Symbolism and Listening, plus new seasons from Sing For Science, That's How I Remember It With Craig Finn, and the recent addition of A Little Bit Culty. 

 You can listen here.