Spotlight: Ian McCarthy ‘The human touch of radio—in a largely algorithmic age—adds something special to hearing new music’. By Jim Morekis. 08/27/2020.

THIS WEEK, we continue our series on WRUU show hosts, with Ian McCarthy, host of “Ventriloquism for Dummies.”

For those who haven’t heard your work and show at WRUU, describe it and your goal with it each week.

After a few years now at WRUU, I’ve just started a new program called “Ventriloquism for Dummies,” which covers a wide and sometimes weird selection of music based on my broad taste. My previous show  “In The Pocket,” was more genre-focused, covering Jazz, Funk, Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop and various other groove-driven tunes.

“Ventriloquism for Dummies” is much more free-form and can include everything – early experimental synthesis; forgotten and forlorn shoegaze; underrated and unapologetic new-wave; conscious and unconscious hip-hop; and everything in-between. Along the way, if listeners learn anything of the fine art of ventriloquy, it will be purely coincidental.

Is there an appreciable difference between the music you work with at WRUU and the music you listen to in your spare time? Do you purposely see your WRUU work as a route to expanding your own musical horizons? Read the complete interview here at Connect Savannah

Story by Jim Morekis.