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Banshee Media Publishing presents Sounds Curious, a captivating podcast for the adventurous listener. In each episode our intrepid producer scours the globe to bring your ears the very best in sound art, improvisation, environmental recordings, acousmatic and experimental music. Featuring gorgeous audio, engaging interviews, and conversations with some of the most curious minds in contemporary sound, Sounds Curious is for everyone who is passionate about listening and just can’t hear enough ...
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Find out more (including the lineup and links to all the artists) over at www.anarchyinthegarden.orgTracks included in this podcast include: Snap Dragon, Rhubarb, Pink Peony and The Lion Dreams of Hunting by Gabi Schaffner who can be found over at www.schaffnerin.netLaure Boer's piece Soleil ébloui - www.laureboer.comBiwanoha by Aine E. Nakamura (w…
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Please note: There is no audio branding or intro in this episodeIf you enjoy this content, please consider joining our Patreon! Link below.Another immersive track for closed eyes, inviting you to slip into dreams or a meditative state. Perfect for both headphone listening (to hear the spatialization) or speakers for use as a meditation or sleeping …
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This two-part overnight dreaming mini-series invites you to listen as you sleep! Let these ambient, vocal sound waves soothe through the night, or any time you want to relax and find some deep chill. Designed around 1 and 1/2 hour cycles to mimic your sleep, these episodes get more and more quiet so you can set the volume comfortably at the start, …
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This two-part overnight dreaming mini-series invites you to listen as you sleep! Let these ambient, vocal sound waves soothe through the night, or any time you want to relax and find some deep chill. Designed around 1 and 1/2 hour cycles to mimic your sleep, these episodes get more and more quiet so you can set the volume comfortably at the start, …
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We break our long silence in the podcast feed with a very special episode for the solstice holidays. An immersive, imaginary sound walk through a wintery, landscape - complete with stops at market sound stages, through bustling train stations packed with holiday travelers out into the landscape and past seasonal bonfires to the depths of the forest…
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Part three (at last!) is the opposite of a deep dive – it’s a flight upwards through the night sky exploring the power of drones as medicine. We go into a bit of the reasons why drones have such a physical effect, with excerpts from an article by Robert Lamb (published Nov. 16, 2016; accessed June 25, 2020): https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/i…
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Part two of our deep dive into drones—exploring how we experience sustained and resonant frequencies in the body, altering our moods and perceptions of the world. Advocating for listening as a whole-body activity and echoing the call of Deep Listening, this episode curates some contemporary takes on drones in global musical traditions. Then we take…
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This week we go deep, deep down to begin an exploration of the musical phenomenon of drones. Beginning with an invitation to listen, deeply, to some drones created by your host using some recent instrument libraries released free from Spitfire Labs, home of Spitfire Audio. Here, three samples from the "London Atmos" pack help set the scene for our …
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Sounds Curious Listeners - here's a crossover episode from our Patreon feed from The Willows Nest. This is a personal little audio postcard with two fantastic new musical pieces that have graced the tiny little stage here and some lovely binaural field recordings by some favorites over at Radio Aporee. There is no advisory to wear headphones for th…
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Look, we can't all be William Shakespeare and knock out King Lear while we're stuck at home. Most of us are lucky to put on pants at some point in the day. So in this episode we ponder one of my favorite topics, failure, and the beautiful things that become possible through it. Featuring two gorgeous performances that happened during less self-isol…
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Celebrating an old tradition a new way: telling a spooky story at Yuletide, a Victorian ghost story, complete with some sound installation from field recordings by artists around the world. Celebrating the wonderful atmosphere that field recordings can make. So turn down the lights, stoke the fireplace and settle in for a spooky tale for the longes…
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This week kicks off a series of episodes using field recordings in creative ways to revel in the sonic details that emerge through some old-fashioned analogue processing techniques drawn from the early days of electroacoustic music. To start, a composed sonic dream through an imaginary winter's landscape, arranged to create an imaginary listening e…
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Today's episode goes back to some musical basics, with several live recordings with global artists from my home to yours. Opening with the glorious Aristarain & Lewkowicz Duo of Sophia Aristarain and Javier Lewkowicz, who rocked the house last Spring with their concert of traditional and original music from the native Argentina, as well as music fr…
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After a long absence! Finally - thanks to everyone for your patience waiting for part 2! Want to help me dedicate more time to the podcast and less time to getting freelance work? Please support our home! www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest – home of the Sounds Curious podcast, and so much more. Every contribution, no matter how large or small, is great…
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Sounds Curious: ASMR and Acoustic IntimacyPlease support our home! http://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest – home of the Sounds Curious podcast, and so much more. Every contribution, no matter how large or small, is greatly appreciated. There are great rewards at every level, too!Credits: Intro and audio installation:Title: Ocean / Ziyaaraiy Magu Roa…
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To celebrate the launch of our new Patreon for the home of Sounds Curious - The Willows Nest in Berlin - I am releasing this first audio digest created for our Patreons to the Sounds Curious podcast. It has been quite a journey bringing this new vision to life - and you can be a part of us. Check out our campaign at www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest a…
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The second part of our deep dive into contemporary "sound singing" or extranormal singing or whatever we're calling it these days with Dr. Chris Tonelli with Gabriel Dharmoo Ute Wassermann, David Moss and Tomomi Adachi.Sound installation (under intro and outro):alas23/sala "Vyžuonos, Lithuania, flooded river hydrophone" on Radio aporee: https://apo…
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Sounds Curious S3, E4: Voices Found, Part 1This week we surf the sound waves of improvised vocal performance, through the practice of five diverse improvisers from all over the world. Introducing his soon-to-be published research, Dr. Chris Tonelli introduces the topic of “extranormal” singing, and together with Gabriel Dharmoo present an evening o…
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This week we take our curious listeners on a little tour through and underappreciated moment in musical history: “space-age” music, or lounge music, or whatever term floats your boat. We trace the relationships between this “exotic” moment in musical history, and Jazz, classical, film and television music. After pondering the rhetoric that greeted …
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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 Apor…
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Field recordings (intro): All from Radio Aporee, http://www.aporee.orgNatalia 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 Pandeyhttp://www.arkomusic.com/about-arkohttp://soundcloud.com/n…
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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/in…
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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 c…
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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 w…
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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…
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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 …
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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 fe…
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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 r…
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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 week…
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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 pe…
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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 …
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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 – …
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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…
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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 hear…
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This week we at Sounds Curious take a moment to meditate on the most recent manifestation of extreme violence the only way we know how: being present to our grief and communing with the ancestors. We listen to the London Gay Men's Chorus singing to comfort the weary, then hear tales of two incredible pioneering souls who dared to speak "the love th…
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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 - wh…
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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 …
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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…
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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 link…
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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 mus…
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This week we take a break from interviews to go take a walk outside! We begin a series of episodes engaging with the multiplicity of ideas about field recordings, what they are, what they "document" and for whom. This episode features some big questions about the concept itself presented using some masterful recordings done by artists Flavian Gilli…
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In this week's show we present another interview done live in Orlando, this time with author and scholar Regina Hansen on the television show Supernatural. We geek out about all things Winchester, reminisce about a musical monoculture that never was, and discover the beauty of acting even when there is no guarantee of success. For links to all the …
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This week we head down memory lane in Orlando with George Reid, who talks vintage video game music, fandom, nomadic subjectivities and nostalgia for times and places we've never been. We unabashedly indulge in the comforts of chiptune limitations, and the simple pleasure of limiting music to 4 channels with 1 dedicated to white noise. All original …
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Welcome back to the second half of our first Sounds Curious Episode! We braved the flu, the wilds of rural China and urban Orlando, not to mention the fickle whims of Los Angeles internet providers to bring you the second half of our conversation with composer and musicologist Alfred Surenyan. More than a few problems with our Skype connection, but…
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Finally - the second half of the pilot episode for Sounds Curious! We split the pilot in two halves after hitting some serious technical difficulties - necessitating a complete upgrade of studio hardware and software halfway through an episode... FUN! Anyone who works with the arts and technology understands why we're sometimes reluctant to upgrade…
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Pilot Episode of the new Sounds Curious podcast, in which the founder of the network discusses her own music, and a recent composition. Featuring a sound installation from radio aporee (www.aporee.org). Part 1.See the show notes over at http://www.bansheemedia.comΑπό τον Banshee Media
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This week we begin our rambling discussions with composer and musicologist Alfred Sureyan. In part 1, we talk composing, being discovered in high school, the finer points of film music, and the career of John Williams, and more! Part 2 will hit the feed next week - and we talk about his work on the music of Star Wars! stay tuned...…
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