Sounds Curious Podcast

This week we take a deep dive into the long dark night to find music inspired by dreaming. Featuring composer/sound artists Michael Reiley McDermott James Perley, and a bit by yours truly, we celebrate dreams and dreaming and all that they have to share in our waking life. Wishing you all sweet dreams this Solstice! Field recordings from Radio Aporee (www.aporee.org/maps): including: Our old friends OR poiesis: “room, Hercegprimaás u. 8, Budapest” and Andrzej Maciejewski “Mwena, Uganda, Thunders and rain at night” Michael Reiley McDermott: (www.bandcamp.com/mikronesia), and consider supporting the Indiegogo for Listening Bodies at https://igg.me/at/listeningbodies/x James Perley: “SLIVR DREAMS” from “CITY HAS NO STARS,” and “SPLINTR DREAMS” from his new release “EXITR.” Find out more at www.jamesperley.art Also includes “Dream Drum Song” from Dream Song Duet: For Ione. More on the composer at www.reneetcoulombe.com. More on the Willows Nest in Berlin at www.willowsnest.org – tickets for the overni

Field recordings (intro): All from Radio Aporee, http://www.aporee.org Natalia Borissova “Alexanderplatz, Tunnel under the s-bahn tracks.” David Rogers “Alexanderplatz.” udo noll “Berlin Ostkreuz: station ambience, steps on stairs.” “John Henry goes to Mali” by Arko Mukhaerjee and Nishad Pandey http://www.arkomusic.com/about-arko http://soundcloud.com/nishadguitar “Song of a Common Man” by Ashram http://findmyashram.com/ “Die singende Knochen” Federica Flux, https://vimeo.com/francisflux and Roberta Busechian http://cargocollective.com/robertabusechian Outro Field Recording: Sharon Renee Stewart, http://soundcloud.com/sharonrstewart/181118-berlin-hbf-below-escalator-track-13 Find out more about her and her work at http://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/220624/sharon-renee-stewart Find The Willows Nest at http://willowsnest.org – and our recordings over at http://soundcloud.com/banshee-media

Recorded on April 6th, but late to the feed! This week we take a sound walk through the archives over at The British Library, celebrating the vanishing sounds of the natural world. We were led there through a blog interview with the curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds at the British Library: http://listeningacrossdisciplines.net/resources/interviews/listening-means-discovery/ The blog got us to pondering the idea of vanishing sounds in the natural world, so you can't really blame us for losing ourselves in the Soundcloud stream for The British Library, and cutting together a virtual sound walk out in the natural world for our listeners: from deer bellowing across a commons in the UK to the sounds of sea birds in a cave in Wales, the rainforest at dawn to stormy weather on deck at sea... Enjoy! Check out more for yourself at: https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library. Find out more in the show notes at www.bansheemedia.com This episode includes: "Corvid roost," "Nightingale Song," On deck in r

This week we explore the spaces of sound talking about convolution reverberation and how it can recreate the sound of real spaces. From La Scala in Milan to underground cisterns in Washington state, we dive deep to listen to space, and find that the space shapes more of what we hear than we might otherwise think! With several tracks from the very cool experimental group Telegraphy and our own live recording from the SARC, enjoy being immersed in the sound, and let it reverberate everything around you! Show notes as always over at www.bansheemedia.com Telegraphy tracks from freemusicarchive.org and they include: Infernal Convolution Hearts, Made In Detroit Distorted Reflections When Sounds Are Meaningless Sustain from Sympathetic Resonance LIVE @Sonorities Festival, 2017, performed by yours truly.

Welcome back to the new season of Sounds Curious: the podcast that gets curiouser and curiouser... In this pilot for season 2 we listen with our whole bodies to and remix sounds of the natural world around us - listening to life under the Antarctic ice shelf, water bubbling under frozen streams murmuring to us of spring, and wonder at the magical world of sounds of our dreams. Featuring field recordings geo-tagged on Radio Aporee, take a tour with us and celebrate as we spin the seasons forward and dive in! All field recordings featured found on www.aporee.org/maps They include: -Steps in snow / Court-St.-Étienne, Belgique, Vincent Duseigne -Bridge on the Loing river / Saint-Mammès, France, Vincent Duseigne, 2017. -Steps on snow. / Moscow, ON, Canada, Andrzej Maciejewski, 2016. -Icy snow falling on large plastic box. / Yarker, ON, Canada, Andrzej Maciejewski, 2016 -Ice covered tree crackling on the wind. / Yarker, ON, Canada (Frozen tree), Andrzej Maciejewski, 2016. -Drumming and chanting in one of th

Happy Winter/Summer solstice from Sounds Curious! This week we celebrate our time out on the road, the unbridled joy of analogue and a consistently working Mellotron, and then drop a pile of unusual and unusually festive tunes to close out this monster of a year! With an entire EP by producer Christian Björklund and some classical music played on a cantankerous tape loop keyboard, this episode is suitable for festive consumption. So raise a glass to the end of 2016, and enjoy sound installation from a rainy day in Sweden – we know it’s been a long year, you deserve some pure audio candy. Music featured in the Episode: EP: SKÅPMAT By producer Christian Björklund. Intro is In the Belly of Gorgul, rest of EP closes the episode - find it free over at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Christian_Bjoerklund/ Field Recording from apartment balcony during a rainstorm in Gothenburg, Sweden, November 13, 2016 by Renée T. Coulombe. Zoom H6n, stereo recording, 320kps. Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (Ralph

This week we drop a mix tape into our feed just as we head out the door for sonic adventures in London, Gothenburg and Belfast! On this tape one of our favorite bands here at the podcast you may never have heard of: Hayvanlar Alemi, from Ankara, Turkiye. This experimental band of classic rockers found free improvisation early in their careers, and have uploaded an incredible body of work for listeners around the world to delight in over at Freemusicarchive.org. In this episode we geek out over smart improvisers, marvel at music that flows through diverse genres like water on the rocky shore, and delight in musicians who defy borders like they do disciplines. All the music in today's episode is over at Freemusicarchive.org posted under Hayvanlar Alemi. Find out more about the band, their music and touring schedule at http://hayvanlaralemi.org/press.html Tracks on todays episode include: Yerekimsiz Ortam (from Demolar 2007-2008) Monsoon Circus Dub (from Visions of a Psychedelic Ankara) Shhjjjjjj - e

On this episode we catch up a little on what’s been going on for us here at Sounds Curious before diving into Egyptian experimental music and reveling in the sounds of the streets of Cairo with field recordings from the great artists over at Radio Aporee. Featuring a June article in CairoScene Magazine, this week’s episode features the work of 7 female experimental Egyptian composers. So we harken back to our previous episode Many, Many, and continue to enjoy the incredible diversity of the genre of experimental music through the artists working in and around the dynamic city of Cairo. Links to all the composers, producers and sound artists featured below. Field Recordings in today’s episode: -Tahrir Square/Ismalia, Qasr by Robert Rehnig (2012-05-08) -Prayers singing…/Maadi as Sarayat Al Gharbeyah Maadi by ludger@schwingkreise.de (2012-05-01) -CULT/Domino player with quran reading by arckibuz (2010-05-19) Find the CairoScene article we’re quoting here: http://www.cairoscene.com/SceneNoise/7-Egyptian-W

In today’s episode we celebrate water, those who live within it, and those who fight to protect it for the good of all. From the mysterious conversations of fish and crustaceans to the mechanics of eardrums or microphones with piezoelectric transducers, we listen deeply to the mysterious world that is waiting for us just underneath the surface in rivers, streams and tidal pools alike. With field recordings from all over the world and an art piece or two, this episode dives down below to find that water still holds mysteries for us to preserve and protect for the generations to come, and offers incredible sonic riches to those who have ears to hear. Many thanks once again to Radio Aporee and all the field recording artists who post there. More, as always, in the show notes over at bansheemedia.com Recordings featured in the episode from Radio Aporee (aporee.org/maps) in order: Justin Bennett, “Kanaleneiland Utrecht, The Netherlands” 2014 alas23/sala “Kos, Greece, Hydrophone” 2016 Jeremy Hegge “Limpets

This week we hit up an Algorave in London, surf the computer-generated hillsides of Oakland, CA, and explore the terrain of sonic landscapes in our praise of Manymanywomen.com - an online index and blog featuring links and tracks by thousands of women composers, improvisers, and sonic artists from around the world. Looking at just the past few weeks of posts over at the blog, we feature the work of 4 artists whose work captures just a hint of the diversity, beauty and artistry available on the site. Opening with Shelly Knott's 2015 performance in UIAESK! @ London Algorave 18-12-15, we move on to Madalyn Merkey's 2014 Archipelago. We follow with a work of the renowned composer and sonic landscapist Rose Bolton, and close with a recent work by the San Diego based composer Tina Tallon. Featuring sound installation by August Phederedia from Radio Aporee (aporee.org/maps). Links to all the work below: Tinun, Tenabo, Camp., México - Grillos en Ciruelos by Augusto Pheredia: https://archive.org/details/aporee

This week we celebrate late summer here in the Northern hemisphere with a trip to the Psychologically Ultimate Seashore of polymath Irving Teibel. (Though it sounds more like the uncanny valley to us.) After discussing some upcoming live international events for the Banshee Media/Improvised Alchemy crew, we dive into the limits of recording, the perils of Late Capitalism, and the belief that natural sounds might help us feel more at home in our increasingly urban environments. Tracing the journey of one artist's quest to capture the perfect sea shore sounds we encounter hipster bars in Germany, and the sands at Brighton Beach, NY, the experimental computers at Bell Labs to record store shelves all over the world. The Environments series (1969-1979), from Syntonic Research, was an audio phenomenon that changed the way we thought about listening - and the reason you don't know about Irving Teibel, is because he designed his audio revolution to be anonymous. More information on events from our news segm

Switching it up a bit this week! After (almost) 20 years of listening to power, this week Sounds Curious returns to the source of one producer’s love of televisual media –the series that sparked a lifetime of research: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This special episode is a through-composed audio essay capturing but a few of the manifold ways in which power is demonstrated, negotiated or perpetuated through sound and silence in the series. From thematic music and underscoring, foley and sound design, the audio in the series is a rich palette – even before we add voices. As for voices, we get out of the way and “let her speak for herself” as we celebrate the power to interrupt, disrupt, invert and subvert power, not unlike apocalypses, through the layers of narrative, sound and music. Inspired by several published video essays on the series, we strip away the visual layer and revel unabashedly in the multilayered audio worlds present, recomposed and often juxtaposed as meditation on the myriad ways power is

This week we embrace our ever-present dark sides with author and researcher Isabella van Elferen. After experiencing a Quantum Haunting via Kevin L. Ferguson, and getting our digital groove on with Axel Bluhme’s new XOXX Composer Project, we dive into the shadow side of modernity and dance at the borderlands of the Enlightenment sipping absinthe – extolling the virtues of this place for the broader culture. We then tackle the shadow sides of music itself, and take on the topic of timbre – a word that even refuses a single pronunciation, never mind definition. Only to end up with a midnight stroll through the darkened woods on the haunted trail… Audio excerpts and installations in order: Quantum Haunting, Kevin L. Ferguson: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/quantum-haunting Kanaleneiland, Utrecht: Justin Bennett: https://archive.org/details/aporee_24499_28432 Video demo for XOXX Composer Project: http://xoxxcomposer.axelbluhme.se/ or Synthtopia: http://www.synthtopia.com/ From Fre

This week we return from our July hiatus with some exciting audio from the northeastern edge of North America – St. Johns, NL, Canada. While we were gone, we embraced stormy skies, sea-going improvisational instruments, the smell of cod tongue dinners and severe jet lag to tell the tale, and tell the tale we do! This week we meet up with improviser and scholar Ellen Waterman to discuss the colloquium “Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue,” listen to ships near and far making music together, and get into the nitty-gritty of what the heck we mean by improvisation anyway… Sound Symposium: http://www.soundsymposium.com/ International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation: http://improvisationinstitute.ca Field Recordings: Introduction North Atlantic thunderstorm on Fogo Island – Steven Roswell, Radio Aporee https://aporee.org/maps Opening: Harbor Symphony, recorded by Renee T. Coulombe July 10, 2016, St. Johns, NL. During introduction: Field recording made in small Café,

This week we explore the limits of consciousness and the potential for human transformation through music and psychedelia with theorist, scholar and Ph.D. student Claire Rebecca Bannister(Kingston University, London). Our conversation takes us from the Goth club to the depths of the rainforest, from late capitalist spiritual consumption to the heart of tribal relations-making. We unabashedly explore the connections between musical repetition and achieving altered states of consciousness, all the while challenging the notions that psychedelic and gothic musics have little overlaps. We also introduce our "news of sound" segment at the opening - keeping our intrepid audience caught up on the latest news affecting sound in culture. More about today's guest can be found at: http://www.kin-dread-spirit.com/ Complete show notes can be found at our web page: http://www.bansheemedia.com Tracks featured in today's episode: Swans of Avon: When Heaven Falls - https://youtu.be/Tk_0aTuPZeE?list=PLlF_eOb5u-coRI_sET

This week we strike out into the wilds of the North American West to talk deserts, the Gothic, and what it means to dance in your 6 inch Demonia platform boots out on the dusty ground. Composed to a recently released track by Treavor Moontribe, we at Sounds Curious weave our thoughts and observations into his set and interrogate our experience - while occasionally losing ourself in the dancing. Humbly dedicated to everyone we've ever danced with in the desert. Track featured is TMTLiveARP3: https://soundcloud.com/treavor-moontribe/tmtlivearp3 More of Treavor Moontribe at https://soundcloud.com/treavor-moontribe or the Desert Dwellers page at https://soundcloud.com/desertdwellers Complete links to all the authors and concepts mentioned in the show can be found in the show notes at www.bansheemedia.com

This week we stick with the Gothic metaphors but shift our focus to the vast topic of Sound Art. We draw heavily from works uploaded to the Acousticcameras.org website – a virtual installation by artists who link their sound works to live feed cameras around the globe. Many thanks to the Facebook group: a quiet position - field recording & the act & art of listening for turning us on to the Acoustic Cameras project. Another thanks, as always, to the artists over at Radio Aporee who make the world of sound so fun to explore! Complete show notes at www.bansheemedia.com Artists/Compositions featured in the podcast, in order: Renee T. Coulombe, 12th Consciousness (stereo mix) first and last installations in the episode: https://youtu.be/0MWxW8wgVFM Info@Satoration.org / Radio Aporee: General ambience around the old mosque 1/Khirki, New Dehli: http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=15204&m=satellite'>radio aporee ::: maps - Khirki, New Delhi, Delhi, India The Digital Intervention When the sea will rise II Attac

This week we bridge recent episodes exploring the worlds of field recording with upcoming episodes in Gothic Music. We explore the "haunting" of audio space through binaural field recordings in light of Dr. Isabella van Elferen's work on Gothic Music and the sonic dimensions of the Uncanny. After a brief introduction we head deep underground for an uncanny subterranean artist residency in Italy, slosh through a mine in Luxembourg with binaural recordings from Vincent Duseigne, and experience an uncanny fugue of our own with help from this week's quotes and recordings... Many thanks to artists on Soundcloud and Radio Aporee sharing their binaural recordings! They include: Bratislava train station: https://soundcloud.com/fields-by-gruska/bratislava-train-station-binaural-recording Cagliari, Italy: http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=30369&m=satellite'>radio aporee ::: maps - Cagliari, Italy. About which the link says: "During an artist residency at Cagliari 2015, Signe Lidén spent as much of her time in the un

This week we feature a new episode in our series on field recordings past and present. We go "old school" with Alan Lomax and trace an academic history of field recordings back in the day, check in with Steven Feld's 1996 article Pygmy Pop: A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis, and tell the story of our own recent bout of schizophonia. Detailed links to all the artists featured in this week's episode can be found on the Banshee Media website: www. bansheemedia.com Alan Lomax Archive: http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp Link to Rosie on Youtube: http://youtu.be/fs1lgG81ZV8 Steven Feld's Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Feld Pygmy Pop Article Link: http://www.musicraceempire.global.wisc.edu/protected/Feld.PygmyPop.pdf Field Recording of farm ambience in the Netherlands by klankbeeld: https://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/ Field Recordings by Flavien Gillie: http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=31823&m=satellite'>radio aporee ::: maps - Rue de l'Amazone, Ixelles, Belgique http:/

We couldn't be more excited this week as we talk in depth about creative music and making art that matters with the incomparable flutist and composer-performer Jane Rigler. She speaks in depth about her innovative technique, pieces and practice, being a Deep Listening Certificate Holder and global wanderer. A big thanks to her for the wonderful music featured in the episode! Find out more about her work, and follow her blog at: http://www.janerigler.com. Be sure to check her upcoming show dates to go see her live - improvisation and performance art are magical when you get to be there in person and she performs prolifically. She has many recordings available - including the 2015 Neuma release "Rarefactions" - we will have links to all of these over at http://www.bansheemedia.com Links to the Flavien GIllie sound installation over at radio aporee is also with the show notes on the Sounds Curious page. In fact, this week she mentions so many exciting musicians from around the world that we will attempt