The life and times of the new American play, and the life and times of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Dramatic Writing Program.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Found radio theatre, today at 4
somafm.com is broadcasting a live feed from NASA mission control layered with ambient music. It's addictively ominous. Listen between 4 and 5 ET today for the 39th and final takeoff of space shuttle Discovery.
http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
(Tuning in to preflight mission audio over the past 24 hours, I've been struck by the tension between the images in my head of what NASA mission control looks like — images from the cold war era, i.e. men in shirtsleeves — and the live voices I'm hearing, many of which are female.)