Podcast Description
Marginalia is a literary podcast exploring memory, attention, and everyday experience. Inspired by Marcel Proust’s reflections on involuntary memory, this opening episode considers how quiet moments — a passing thought, the turn of a page — can subtly rearrange the present.
In this first episode, I reflect on the figure of the flâneuse (the feminine form of the French term flâneur), a woman who wanders city streets, observing urban life with an attentive yet independent perspective.
Sound Elements
Incorporates three sound categories:
- Voice (Narration): Recorded by author.
- Music: Introduction and Tarantelle (Op. 43) layered beneath narration.
- Sound Effect (Original Recording): A live page-turn sound performed and recorded by the author while the music was playing, used as a transition immediately before the narration begins.
The page-turn signals entry into the reflective space of the episode.
Creative Commons License for Project
This podcast episode, Marginalia, is licensed under:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Narration and Page Turn (Original Work)
Marginalia – Opening Narration and Page Turn
Author: Viviana Mendiola
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Music
Introduction and Tarantelle (Op. 43)
Written by Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)
Performed by Mischa Violin and Josef Adler
Recording date: Orange, N.J., 1921
Source: Open Music Archive
Track URL: https://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/Intro_And_Tarantelle.mp3
License: Public Domain
Source Information: https://www.openmusicarchive.org
Podcast Cover Image – Marginalia
Image generated using ChatGPT (OpenAI image generation tool).
Prompt and final composition directed by the author.
Tool: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
