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00:34Hey guys, it's me, Yaya Diamond. What's up? How you doing?
00:37I have an amazing guest on the show.
00:39Again, he is still amazing. He will always be amazing.
00:42And I am so happy this time that we have him on the camera.
00:47Yay!
00:48I want to welcome author Richard Beeston to the show.
00:52Thank you so much for joining us today.
00:55That's nice. Very nice.
00:59So, I wanted to ask you, we talked about this before, but you have a new book now.
01:04So, Sound Matters.
01:06I'm going to go ahead and share the poster that I put up earlier.
01:12So, it's Sound Matters.
01:15And this is beautiful.
01:17So, with all of the things that you're doing, I wanted to find out from you, how did you get
01:25into Sound Matters?
01:28And what made you write this particular book?
01:35Well, what it is, Yaya, is a thesis that I was writing for my master's degree.
01:46And what I was trying to do is find something that people need to keep up to date with what
01:58or find out how music and sound started out.
02:03Okay.
02:05Now, this goes, the book starts really back in the 1890s.
02:17Okay.
02:18And it gives an idea of all the instruments and things that were being used to get sound into the
02:36homes and into everyday life.
02:43Now, it's the, really, the technology that I'm trying to work with to show all the different types of technology
03:04that has been used from the old
03:12cylinders, the music cylinders.
03:14Oh, I've forgotten words.
03:22Take your time.
03:24Yeah, yeah.
03:25It's okay.
03:26Take your time.
03:27Take your time.
03:29It's all right.
03:32It's from the old cylinders, the music cylinders.
03:36And then the old 78s and the old 45s going up into the 33 rpms.
03:55And how the technology has progressed so that it can come in, instead of just having to go to a
04:08big hall to listen to music, you've got it walking around in the, with yourself, by yourself.
04:16It, I mean, you know, the progression of sound, that was, it was, it started off slow, but definitely a
04:25sped up in the last 50 or so years.
04:28Um, did you talk about that?
04:34In the beginning, they, there was no, um, technology that was available to each individual person to use as they
04:53wanted to use it.
04:54Right.
04:56Um, the only way that people could listen to music was to go into a great big hall or something
05:04like that, where there was, uh, orchestras and, um, all that sort of thing that you, they had to listen
05:14to.
05:14Um, and depending on where they were sitting in the hall or in wherever they were listening to in the
05:23home or something, the sound varies because of the, uh, way in which the sound is being, uh, projected from
05:38the orchestra to the people listening.
05:41Um, if they're at the back of the hall, um, um, they can get sound bouncing off the walls.
05:48If they're down near the front, the, some of the sound goes over the top of them.
05:54Um, if they're to one side, they get, uh, sound bouncing off the wall and all this sort of thing
06:05distorted the way that people could hear music.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Yeah.
06:13Or any sound.
06:14That's crazy.
06:16When, when the technology of the, um, was, uh, uh, being appreciated and could be used by each individual, the
06:34technology had to keep up with, with all the requests of how they could.
06:41They can, or where they can listen to it, whether it's got to be in the home, in the big
06:46grammar phones, or whether it's in a little, uh, radio that they can listen to it, but that they haven't
06:56got any control over really, except for volume.
07:00And then they wanted to, people wanted to say, all right, well, I can, uh, listen to it at home,
07:09but I want to go and listen to it when I'm on the beach or when, you know, in the
07:15car or whatever else.
07:16Yeah.
07:17And so the technology had to grow and grow and grow and grow until such time as they got into
07:27the, and, um, in the cars, you know, the different sized, um, pieces of equipment that were in cars to
07:43listen to.
07:44So, and nobody in, uh, my, well, if I had two grandchildren, the people of that age in the sort
07:57of in the twenties didn't know how music came to be because they just had it on, on tap.
08:05Yeah, yeah, they did, we did, I'm not going to lie, we did.
08:14And, uh, I mean, that, if they don't, don't know where it comes from, how can they tell people how
08:21to use it properly?
08:23Exactly.
08:25Yeah.
08:26Well, well, you know, there are just so many different technic, technic, technic, technological advances.
08:35That we've made with music, with different, uh, audio, with different things like, you know, the, the doorbell, the refrigerator
08:43bell, the, the, the talking, the audio, the, the, um, AI.
08:48I mean, there's just so many leaps and bounds on audio that people don't realize we've made.
08:54And it's not just music, it's, you know, speech, it's the sounds that we hear every day.
09:00It's the ambulance sound that we hear.
09:02That's also sound inside the car sound outside the car in the house.
09:07I mean, wow, this, I mean, what is it that you focus on in your book?
09:14Just the, the, um, technology, the progress in the technology.
09:21I, I try and get all the different types of technology up until about the 1950s.
09:28Yeah.
09:29Yeah.
09:30The 1950s.
09:31Wow.
09:32After that, it gets just too quick and too, too much to deal with.
09:40And as I was doing, you know, my original thesis that I was doing for my master's degree started off
09:48at 80,000 words.
09:53That's a lot of words.
09:54That's a lot of words.
09:56Yes.
09:58And I, you know, I wanted to do it right up until about the 1960s, 1970s.
10:05My, um, teacher said, look, that is only good for a PhD or something a bit higher.
10:14So he said, chop it down, chop it down, chop it down, chop it down.
10:21He said, I, all I want is something in about, um, 20,000 words.
10:29And I said, I can't put all this work into 20,000 words.
10:33It's got to be more than that.
10:35I said, I'll chop it down to 60,000.
10:39He said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
10:41That's still too much.
10:44So we came to an agreement that I would do 40,000 words.
10:49And I think there's 39,950 or something like that words in the book.
10:56You came pretty close there.
10:58You came pretty close.
11:02Wow.
11:03It's not, it's not a boring book.
11:06I don't think it's a boring book.
11:07It's something that if people are interested in music and they don't know what's been going on and how it
11:14came about and how it came to be that you and I had small radios, you know, and then we
11:24came into the AI stuff and all that sort of, which I, which I couldn't cope with.
11:31So I just said, all right, we'll leave it down at 40,000.
11:34I'll get it printed and see what happens.
11:37Wow.
11:38Well, you know, I have to say that you're right.
11:40And I said this earlier that it's just, it speeds up tremendously speeds up from like the 1960s, 70s, and
11:48then it just goes crazy.
11:50It just gets, like you said, you can't deal with it.
11:52It's just, it's too much.
11:53But I think the precipice of it and the foundations of sound, you know, and getting this sound into people's
12:01homes and their cars is technologically a miracle within itself.
12:07Because like you said, people had to go somewhere to listen to it.
12:11You know, when it comes to sound technology, what would be the national versus the international audience?
12:21I mean, is there, was there any cohesiveness between the two advances?
12:29It was so, so gradual and people didn't realize that they needed something.
12:37And then somebody said, oh, I'll do this and try it out.
12:43And then they come across something that somebody else does a little bit better and smaller and louder and deals
12:53with different sorts of things.
12:55Things like advertising, people's needs, things just changed so much.
13:11And with technology changing from loudspeakers to, you know, little battery-operated things, it couldn't do much different.
13:28Yeah, yeah.
13:29What about cultural differences?
13:31Were there any cultural differences when it came to this and the sound technology and the influence?
13:39Yes, there were.
13:42It was mostly because people wanted to discover what other people were doing so that they could use their sound
13:54or give their sound to another culture.
14:00Like, for instance, if I'm looking at Australia, you've got our aboriginals, which have a different culture to us.
14:12And some of the white-skinned people said, we want to give you what our culture is so that you
14:27can, so we can join up together and make sure that we enjoy both cultures.
14:34Then there's cultures within Europe, within America, within Canada and United States, United States and Mexico, Mexico and Brazil, all
14:51different cultures.
14:53And everybody wanted to, or when people were traveling, they wanted to listen to other cultures, music or sounds.
15:02And this, it wasn't that one culture dominated.
15:09It was one culture had often different ways of communicating.
15:19Some of it was sounding, some of it was sound, some of it was voice, all of which is part
15:25of sound.
15:29And people just wanted to get things done and wanted to listen to the different cultures because they were interested
15:41in the different cultures.
15:42Yeah. What kind of, what kind of challenges did you face while you did this project?
15:49Because I know the one challenge you had that we were talking about earlier is the, the actual amount of
15:56words that you needed to kind of lower this down to.
16:00But what other challenges did you face while you were writing this, this, I want to say book because I,
16:06no, it was a book from the, from the get go to me.
16:12The, the, the, the problems I got was trying to find the information in other books so that I could
16:21use it in my book.
16:25Some books that I was looking for, I had to get sent out from England and from Germany and from
16:33the United States because we didn't have the books that I wanted to give me the information.
16:42And when I, when I wanted to quote somebody, I had to get the books to say, yes, I've got
16:49that book.
16:49I've got the page number that I've, that I've wanted on so, and so much and so much.
16:55Yeah.
16:56Yeah.
16:56I got you.
16:57And some books that were just out of print.
17:03And I, you know, I, you know, I couldn't get them.
17:07So I had to dig around in libraries and in museums and all that sort of thing to give me
17:16an idea of what I could use, what I can't use.
17:21And, you know, I, you know, I wanted to make sure that if I was going to quote somebody, I
17:35didn't quote something out of a book that is no longer available.
17:39Right.
17:42Yeah.
17:42Yeah.
17:43Wow.
17:44Wow.
17:44That, that can be tough.
17:47That, that, I mean, a book out of print is like digging in a hole that you're digging for something
17:53that doesn't exist really.
17:55Oh, goodness.
17:55Um, no, no, no, no.
17:58I feel it's more like digging in a hole to try and find a diamond.
18:03Well, that can be difficult as well.
18:05I mean, I think, I don't know.
18:06I'd rather, I think we can find gum before we can find diamonds, but definitely I understand where you're coming
18:14from.
18:15Did you come across?
18:16Go ahead.
18:17Or maybe, uh, yeah, finding an opal.
18:23Um, now, yeah, that's very hard to find.
18:27You've got to go and find out where that, that sort of thing.
18:30Mm-hmm.
18:32Yep.
18:32Yep.
18:32Yep.
18:32I agree.
18:33I agree.
18:34Did you come across any surprising or little known facts during your research?
18:39Yes, I did.
18:42One of the things that I had brought to my attention, I was reading a book.
18:51Now, I went into a library in one of the universities around here.
18:57And I was looking for a particular book under the number and the, where you could find it in the
19:05library.
19:07And I was looking at a book and then I came across the book next door to the book I
19:13wanted.
19:13And it came to me that our Aboriginals have a way of giving people music by asking radio stations to,
19:34um, play certain items that the, a person wanted.
19:40So, um, I, I, I, you, just for instance, say you were in hospital, I knew you, I knew what
19:50sort of music you liked.
19:51So, I would ring up the radio stations to broadcast it so that you could hear it.
19:58And you, we, we would be, they would be told that so-and-so has asked for Yaya to listen
20:08to this music because it's his birthday or something like that.
20:12Wow.
20:13So, and I didn't know that this existed and it was only in one book that I found that I
20:20could, uh, relate to this.
20:23And it was one of the things that the people who was, were looking in my book or looking in
20:30my thesis that, um, they didn't know about it.
20:34And they said, where did you get this information?
20:36And I just said, well, there's the book, there's the right, there's where it's been written.
20:41And so that's what I used it for.
20:43And because of that, they said, yes, it's, um, something that I would never have been able to put or,
20:51yeah, never been able to put in a book.
20:55Wow.
20:55I just used it.
20:56So in a way that I felt that nobody else knew what was happening except for a small group.
21:05And then I just thought, well, it's, my book is really for the world, not just for my country or
21:14your country or, you know, something in the Arctic or the Antarctic or, you know, small islands or something like
21:23that.
21:23I wanted to make sure that it was available and readable by people right around the world.
21:30Yeah, definitely.
21:32Definitely.
21:32So you, you mentioned in your book that music was both information and, and, and relaxation.
21:38Um, how did these, these roles evolve alongside technology then?
21:46Uh, my family.
21:49Hmm.
21:51My family, I, it was my, what I, uh, what I, um, was brought up with.
22:02Um, what my grandfather had as far as music was concerned.
22:07I then talked to some of his, um,
22:15people, the same age.
22:16I then went to people that were, well, I was listening to music at home.
22:23Um, and I got a lot of my ideas from my father and my mother and my brother and sister
22:32and what they were doing to listen to music and listening to sound and this sort of thing.
22:42Um, and other people at school, um, um, in the same, um, uh, job that I was doing and just
22:52got a lot of people's ideas of, you know, where, where they got their information from, where they got their
23:00music from, where they got other things from.
23:03Um, and you know, where the news came from, uh, and how it was brought out from, uh, one radio
23:13stations, uh, equipment right through, uh, right around Australia or right around America, right around Germany, whatever, whatever country you
23:25would like to talk about.
23:26Um, uh, and this all sort of.
23:32Um, and this all sort of made me dig deeper into where the, uh, sound's were coming from and how
23:40the technology had been improved because my grandfather didn't have a radiogram for quite a while or grammar phone.
23:52He had the tubes and listened to piano and went out on, you know, to big orchestral things because he
24:11couldn't have any radios in his youth because they didn't exist.
24:18Well, that's weird to me, though, because I wasn't in that era, I guess.
24:30You are probably too young to have a living grandfather that didn't know where all this was.
24:40Yeah. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, my grandfather would have. Gosh, he passed away at 97 years
24:53old in 2006.
24:57He would have had. He would have had. Yeah. He would have known. And my grandmother was 102 and she
25:03passed away two years ago.
25:06So, yeah, they both would have known. They both would have known. Yeah.
25:11Well, I'm not far out of your grandfather's age group.
25:20Well, that's cool. You're looking all pispy and cute and stuff. You look good.
25:28I like it. You don't look in the 90s or even the 80s.
25:33You know, early 80s. Yes.
25:39Wow. Wow. Wow. So you're in your early 80s, right?
25:44How do you want this book to contribute to the understanding of sound technology today?
25:53Just to let people know where it came from, not just to accept that sound and music has been forever
26:03because it hasn't been.
26:04Yeah. Because of AI, because of all the different technologies that have been created.
26:25Awesome. Yeah, I agree with you.
26:27I agree with you. And I didn't think it just came out of nowhere, like, poof, sound.
26:34So definitely there had to be an evolution of it.
26:37And I appreciate what you've done and that you put this book together, this one here.
26:42And I'm going to go ahead and put that link up in the description box so people can actually go
26:48to Amazon and find your book.
26:50And, you know, and actually know the impact of technology on music composition in the early 20th century.
26:57Something that really, really you had to study really deeply.
27:00And I appreciate that because that's something that all musicians or people who love music or even sound itself can
27:08appreciate.
27:11Thank you. Thank you.
27:13Is there anything that we missed today that you'd like to say?
27:19Well, what I'd like to do, what I'd like to say is don't just think that sound and music has
27:29been forever.
27:30But dig deeper or dig a little bit deeper and find out where and how music and sound has grown
27:38over the last hundred years.
27:42Mm-hmm. Yeah.
27:45And that's what the book is for.
27:47That's wonderful. I love it. Absolutely love it.
27:50You know, if you guys are into sound, if you're into music and you want to know the evolution of
27:55it all,
27:55and if you want to literally be a part of that evolution and you want to make it known that
28:01you now are,
28:03you know, you know, privy of that information, then I would go ahead and get this book for yourself.
28:10Mr. Beeson, thank you so much for being on the show.
28:12I appreciate it.
28:14And I finally got it on camera.
28:21Well, you've seen my book?
28:23I have.
28:24You've seen my book?
28:24Yes.
28:26It is beautiful.
28:27I like hardcover.
28:29You've seen me.
28:30Yes.
28:31Now all you've got to do is read it.
28:34That's it.
28:35That's it.
28:35Well, Mr. Beeson, thank you for your contribution.
28:38And thank you so much for being, you know, used so that you can literally show people where sound did
28:44come from.
28:45You have more books, Mr. Beeson?
28:48No, I don't.
28:49The reason for that is that I started this idea probably in my late 70s or 70s and looking at
29:02it, getting all the information, writing it, being it, you know, having to chop it here and chop it there
29:09and whatever else.
29:10Finding a publisher that's willing to do it to publish it has taken me seven years.
29:19Wow.
29:20And I don't think that I could do another seven years' work to write another book.
29:26I don't think that I doubt it's going to take you seven years.
29:29You just go back to tranquility.
29:33Well, it wasn't just tranquility.
29:38It was just a lot of hard, hard work.
29:42Hard.
29:43Yes, hard work to try and find out where I wanted to, what I wanted to talk about and make
29:49it readable.
29:51I got you.
29:51I understand that.
29:53Well, Mr. Beeson, you might be sitting around twiddling your thumbs, according to you.
29:57Your parents lived very long, and I think you're not going anywhere anytime soon.
30:05Thank you, Yaya.
30:06No problem, Mr. Beeson.
30:08And thank you guys so much for tuning in.
30:09And I'm going to put the link in the description box, so it'll be easy for you guys to go
30:12ahead and find that book.
30:13You know, a lot of times we just sit down in a corner.
30:15I absolutely love to sit next to a window on a window seat, open up a book, have a cup
30:22of coffee or some tea and maybe some popcorn or something and read a great book.
30:28Staying out of this TV and getting away from the social media and all that stuff is beautiful.
30:36And just having an area in your home somewhere on your property or even near your apartment building or wherever
30:44you may live to actually sit down and read a book.
30:47I used to go to the beach and sit on the rocks, and it was beautiful.
30:51Beautiful.
30:52So I think that this is something that you can appreciate, you guys.
30:55You know, learning where sound came from and being aware of all the sounds that now are around you is
31:02an amazing thing.
31:03It definitely is.
31:05Mr. Beeson, thank you again so much.
31:07A pleasure.
31:09And it's my pleasure as well.
31:11Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
31:12And this has been courtesy of Tranquility Press.
31:15Thank you guys again so much.
31:16Bye.
31:28Bye.
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