Podcast Episodes

e133 deconstruction - how can you constructively deconstruct?

Season 4 Episode 133

while doing my qi gong one morning I heard roofers removing tiles and recalled simplesoundscape in 2016…

TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE

(bell + sound of roofers taking off tiles)

While doing my daily qi gong on …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

e132 slow - how does the pace of speech relate to the sound of modernity?

Season 4 Episode 132

my zen practice taught me that unhurried speech invites us to slow down

EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION

(bell and breath)

When I was a student at the White Wind Zen Community in Ottawa I had the privilege of list…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e131 modernity - are you modernity?

Season 4 Episode 131

an exercise where I invite listeners to stop what they are doing, listen and to enjoy the experience

(unedited improvised narration)

Listening is at the heart of this season of the conscient podcast. S…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e130 fiction - what stories do you want to hear?

Season 4 Episode 130

a quote from robin parmar about speculative fiction that raises some questions

(bell and breath)

I love the sound of leaves dancing on hard surfaces. 

(sound of a leaf blowing)

It’s poetic and kinetic an…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e117 portrait of robin mathews (bonus episode)

Season 4

Here is another bonus episode, this one is called 'Portrait of Robin Mathews'. It is 3 part unpublished radio program I created in 2005 in collaboration with Robin based on an interview I recorded wi…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?

Season 4 Episode 129

e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?

(bell and breath)

Every July 18th is World Listening Day. It’s also composer and acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer’s birthday. R…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e128 revisited - what does decolonized listening sound like to you?

Season 4 Episode 128

(bell and breath)

(movement 1 of vancouver soundscape revisited, eagle)

You’re listening to the first movement, eagle, of my 1996 soundscape composition, vancouver soundscape revisited.

I describe the p…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

e127 halfway - towards what are you midway?

Season 4 Episode 127

Note: the podcast recording was improvised based on this script and therefore has additional material.

This 127th episode of the conscient podcast marks the halfway point of season 4, which, as you mi…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

e126 sleepless - what keeps you up at night?

Season 4 Episode 126

(soundscapes of east vancouver at c. 5am)

I can’t sleep tonight. 

What about you? 

I love nighttime soundscapes. 

They’re so bareboned, minimal, like the rumble that you hear now, mostly from Vancouver h…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

e125 observer - how do you respond to climate news?

Season 4 Episode 125

(bell)

I take stock of climate news by reading the headlines of the excellent daily newspaper, national observer, for example, on Tuesday April 25th, 2023 these were the headlines : 

‘We might have a c…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago