Jad Abumrad: Words Fail Me
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Jad Abumrad, creator of Radiolab, MacArthur Fellow, Vanderbilt University professor, composer, and journalist, has pioneered “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He weaves dialogue, music, interviews, and sound into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into otherwise intimidating topics.
Abumrad’s latest work, Words Fail Me, is a meditation on living inside information overload—and what earlier technological shocks, from the telegraph to radio, can teach us about how AI may reshape human perception even faster. The sensation of being “pulled apart” by simultaneous signals opens a bigger question: what happens to our minds when we’re bombarded by thousands of channels, frequencies, and timelines at once?
Part personal essay, part sound-and-music performance, part philosophical detective story, it’s built for an audience that wants to feel something about the chaos of modern attention, not just think about it.
TICKETS: $34 Adults / $21 Students
$23 UK Faculty/Staff
FREE FOR UK STUDENTS
Abumrad’s latest work, Words Fail Me, is a meditation on living inside information overload—and what earlier technological shocks, from the telegraph to radio, can teach us about how AI may reshape human perception even faster. The sensation of being “pulled apart” by simultaneous signals opens a bigger question: what happens to our minds when we’re bombarded by thousands of channels, frequencies, and timelines at once?
Part personal essay, part sound-and-music performance, part philosophical detective story, it’s built for an audience that wants to feel something about the chaos of modern attention, not just think about it.
TICKETS: $34 Adults / $21 Students
$23 UK Faculty/Staff
FREE FOR UK STUDENTS
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