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Part two of our ten part radio series ‘The Tone Generation’ is aired on Resonance FM this Friday 18th at 19.30 GMT. This week the focus is France with music from Iannis Xenakis, Ivo Malec, Pierre Henry and Spooky Tooth.

You can subscribe to the podcast here or find MP3’s for this and previous shows on the sound page.

I just delivered a new sonic logo to accompany Turner Classic Movies latest visual branding. Check it out on the video page. It is a mix of contemporary and orchestral with simple sound design elements to bring out the movement of the zeotrope.

I love this website. ‘Paleo-Future - A look into the future that never was’ finds amazing films and images from the past that attempted to imagine how the future might be. The latest find is a series of French postcards from 1910 credited to an artist called Villemard. There are some fantastic images like flying firemen and police, mechanical tailors and hair and makeup assistants and ‘The Avenue of the Opera’ which shows members of the public flying in winged cars.

My favorite image however is ‘Hearing the Newspaper’ which shows a couple sitting down to listen to the daily news on a gramophone. I guess you could say that this is one of the few predictions that came true as many national papers now offer podcasts. And talking of podcasts, even though it hasn’t been implemented yet, it won’t be long till the new iPods are capable of downloading them wirelessly. This is great news for podcasting as anything that simplifies the process of finding and downloading can only make it more accessible to a wider audience.