Podcast Episodes

e99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)

Season 3

'What would the Prairies be without wind?  It’s the keynote sound here, the one against which everything else is registered. But to record it? Impossible.'

R. Murray Schafer, winter diary, 1997

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

e99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)

Season 3 Episode 99

Episode Notes

Barn on the farm of R. Murray Schafer and Eleanor James, Indian River, Ontario, January 19, 2022 (photo by me)

Note: the text below is a transcription of the narration in the episode (sou…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

e98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3

Season 3 Episode 98

'I came to realize that in season three that I continue to be very deeply moved by the layering of words and soundscapes. There's something about it, when new contexts for listening are created, that…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e97 chantal chagnon, kevin jesuino, melanie kloetzel – climate art web

Season 3 Episode 97

'We are missing so many voices that could be the change. Art gives us that opportunity to amplify those voices and I think it's important that now, more than ever, that we amplify those marginalized …

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e96 joan sullivan – the liminal space between what was and what’s next

Season 3 Episode 96

'We find ourselves in a liminal space right now and liminal space means it's that time between what was and what's next. That's where we are. It's a place of not knowing and unless all of us humans, …

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e95 charles c. smith & kevin a. ormsby – IBPOC arts in planetary renewal

Season 3 Episode 95

'Yes, we agree that anti-racism is important. Yes we agree that anti oppression is important. Yes, we agree that equity is important. Yes, we agree that sovereignty is important for indigenous people…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e94 devon hardy – data is a powerful thing

Season 3 Episode 94

'We have a national data set that's about to emerge and that's a really powerful thing. If we can gather data from across the country from arts and culture organizations across the country and build …

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e93 anthony garoufalis-auger – national cultural climate policy

Season 3 Episode 93

'The economic models and the way that policy is guided in Canada and around the world at the moment assumes that culture will not change. It assumes that we're self interested individuals, which scie…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e92 santee smith – about SKéN:NEN and interconnectedness

Season 3 Episode 92

'The environment and sustainability is an integral, if not the founding process, of how we view the world: interconnectedness, responsibility as human beings, to be caretakers of the earth, to be for…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

e91 keith barker – telling a really good story

Season 3 Episode 91

'I look for stories that are not there just to educate people. If I tell a really good story and it happens to be about the global crisis, about global warming and about the effects on community, if …

Published on 4 years ago