Found in the Machine

Daina Bouquin

Every line of code has a story. Most of us just never hear it.Found in the Machine is a narrative podcast about the forgotten people, decisions, and accidents that quietly shaped the digital world. If you've ever wondered who actually made the technology you use every day, and why you've never heard their name before, you'll feel at home here. This show is for the curious, not the credentialed. You don't need a technical background to follow along. You just need to be the kind of person who pulls on threads.New episodes unearth human stories from computing history ev...

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Found in the Machine

Episodes (14)

Tuesday Silent Agreement: MIDI and What We Hear in the Wires
Tue Jun 9th Working in the Dark: Secrets, Silicon, and Light
May 26th America on Hold: How the Internet Arrived

Found in the Machine

Jun 23, 2026
16¼ minutes
11 MB

Sheet music has always been an invisible treaty. A shared language that belongs to everyone and no one. But fifty years ago, as musicians began shaping sound out of raw electricity, that treaty fell apart. In this episode The Broken Treaty: Why early synthesizers from different manufacturers couldn't talk to each other, and the resulting landscape of incompatible voltages.The Unlikely Alliance: How Dave Smith in the US (Sequential Circuits) and Ikutaro Kakehashi in Japan (Roland) looked past corporate rivalry to build a universal standard.The Birth of MIDI: How microscopic 1981 microprocessors...

Found in the Machine

Silent Agreement: MIDI and What We Hear in the Wires

Daina Bouquin

00:00 -16:13