Podcast Episodes

e151 rain - can you hear the sound of catastrophe in the rain and thunder?

Season 4 Episode 151

i was listening to the sound of rain falling in a small cabin by a stream with distant thunder in the background… 

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

(Rain from inside a cabin with thunder in …

Published on 2 years ago

e150 compactor - are there strange sounds on your street?

Season 4 Episode 150

i heard a strange tapping sound from my window one morning and had a chat when the workers repairing the street 

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(Bell and breath)

(sound of me walking towards a machine on a…

Published on 2 years ago

e149 spinning - let the sound take you wherever it might in your imagination

Season 4 Episode 149

i came upon a 1980’s era ‘discman’ portable CD player that still work, sort of and listened to it trying to spin up

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

(old cd player trying to spin up)

While …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

60 Minute Cities Ottawa (revisited)

Season 4

A special episode of The Place of Sound podcast featuring highlights from a project I did in 2017 for Bivouac Recordings, in Hong Kong, called 60 minutes Cities Ottawa, a series of winter time field …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

e148 ai - what is the sound of modernity for you?

Season 4 Episode 148

i asked chatGPT what was the ‘sound of modernity’ in 4 modes : normal, critical, radical and optimistic and got some feedback

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

On a rainy August 10th 2023, I as…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

e147 worlding - what worlding stories do you hear ?

Season 4 Episode 147

i learned about the concept of ‘worlding’ from Vanessa Andreotti’s Hospicing Modernity and I danced in the rain

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

(raindrops from https://simplesoundscapes.ca…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

e146 countdown - can you turn back time?

Season 4 Episode 146

I recorded myself counting down from 100 to 1 in the snow and played in backwards, hoping, against all odds, to turn back time

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

 

(bell and breath)

(Ambiance and footsteps in th…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

e145 bear - what do you think about grieving our dying planet and sitting with this sadness?

Season 4 Episode 145

when I got up on September 25th 2023, while searching for my glasses in the dark, I touched a little mechanical bear

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

Vancouver, September 25, 2023. 

You can…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

e144 drifting - can you go with the flow?

Season 4 Episode 144

while drifting on a river in a kayak i listened

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and breath)

(kayak drifting on a river)

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CREDITS
 

One of my ‘happy places’ in life is drifting down a river on a kayak. It…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

e143 defeatism - what are you not ready to see?

Season 4 Episode 143

I felt defeated by the ecological crisis, and by myself, so I created an episode about defeatism hoping to defeat my defeatism

TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE

(bell and voice)

Note: [ ] = filtered voice

I g…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago