Born and raised in the well-mannered dairyland of Wisconsin, John moved to Brooklyn in 2003 to face his fear of large crowds and to pursue a career in music and audio engineering. After two years working a major recording studio, the now defunct Right Track Recording, John began his freelance career at WNYC. He contributed sound design to American Icons: The Great Gatsby. (He also found himself unwittingly tasked with preventing a tempestuous Courtney Love from smoking in the studio.) After a stint as the Technical Director for PRI’s Fair Game with Faith Salie, John worked with On The Media, Soundcheck, Freakonomics, Radiolab, Spinning on Air, Radio Rookies, and WNYC’s newsroom, before joining the staff of Studio 360 in 2012. John writes and performs literary folk rock as The Reverend John DeLore. He enjoys reading Dostoevsky by moonlight, and still dislikes large crowds.
John Delore appears in the following:
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Friday, March 22, 2013
While classical institutions usually bemoan the aging audience, Eric Whitacre’s fanbase is squarely in a prize demographic of 18-to-30 year olds. Whitacre is the most popular choral composer working today, his music performed by school choirs, university groups, and professional ...
Bonus Track: “Oculi Omnium,” performed by the Eric Whitacre Singers
Live in-Studio: Richard Thompson
Friday, March 01, 2013
Guitarist Richard Thompson keeps good company. His name is regularly found alongside those of Hendrix, Clapton, and Jimmy Page on various "Best Guitarists of All Time" lists. But while they all riffed off the American blues, Thompson has always done his own thing. “It’s not really bluesy ...
Video: "Stuck On The Treadmill"
Live in-Studio: Dwight Yoakam
Friday, February 15, 2013
Among country superstars, Dwight Yoakam has always been a guy who didn’t fit in. A cool, mysterious dude in a crowd of boys next door. An Appalachian-turned-Angeleno who spurned Nashville. An actor with a penchant for playing creeps, psychos, and other unsavories. And recently ...
Hey! Ho! Let's Poe! Remixing NFL Names
Monday, January 28, 2013
I am an English major and a fan of professional football. So for this year’s Super Bowl, it will come as no surprise that I'm rooting for the Baltimore Ravens, the only team in the NFL named for a poem. In the spirit of literature and gridiron, I want to re-name all the NFL franchises. ...
Beck’s Song Reader: Open to Interpretation
Friday, December 21, 2012
Beck has always been an unpredictable musician: from the folk-rock of Mellow Gold, to the digital sounds of Odelay, to the raucous funk of Midnite Vultures. But for his latest project, there’s no music at all — unless you want to make some yourself. Song Reader, published by McSweeney's ...
Eve Sussman's Algorithmic Noir
Friday, July 06, 2012
A new film premiered last year that is truly one of a kind. whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir was made by Eve Sussman and her collaborators, known as the Rufus Corporation. They shot most of the footage in Kazakhstan, improvising the script and taking advantage of the Soviet Union’s ...
The Sights and Sounds of Concert Halls
Friday, May 11, 2012
In the last decade, concert hall construction has been booming. And according to architectural historian Victoria Newhouse, these buildings are changing our experience of live music in unexpected ways. She and Kurt visit Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Built in 1969, the hall ...
In Search of Significant Objects
Friday, March 23, 2012
It all started with a broken coffee cup. “It was a totally meaningless thing,” remembers Rob Walker, “but it happened to be a coffee cup that I had bought on a trip with my now-wife.” The ceramic casualty made Walker realize that the stories we attach to objects may be ...
Eve Sussman's Algorithmic Noir
Friday, December 16, 2011
A new film premiered this year that is truly one of a kind. whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir was made by Eve Sussman and her collaborators, known as the Rufus Corporation. They shot most of the footage in Kazakhstan, improvising the script and taking advantage of the Soviet Union’s ...
Adventures in 3D Sound!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Edgar Chouieri knows how things work; he’s a rocket scientist — officially, the Director of Princeton University's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory. If NASA ever sends a person to Mars, Chouieri’s research probably will have played a role. But Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen visited his lab recently to get a taste of the future right now. Chouieri’s hobby is acoustics...
Patton Oswalt Geeks Out
Friday, March 04, 2011
The comedian Patton Oswalt reads the title essay from his new memoir: Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland. As Oswalt sees it, we all fall into one of these three science fiction fantasy archetypes. Take our survey and let us know which group you're a member of!
The Legend of Me
Friday, May 09, 2008
In the pantheon of "Saturday Night Live" segments, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" are legendary. Well, now Jack Handey has written his own legend -- it's part of his new humor collection, What I’d Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats. With ...
My Nature Documentary
Friday, August 31, 2007
The writer Jack Handey has been watching a lot of wildlife shows on TV. And he has some ideas to use show business techniques to help us better appreciate the wonders of nature. With production by John Delore, and additional voiceover by
