Encore un matin au dehors, pour prendre l'air et oublier la chanson, oublier les noms de ce qu'on entend pour écouter vraiment.
Juste à l'aube, une ouverture vers l'intérieur du monde, qui est tout sauf hermétique aux bruits des terriens jusque dans le ciel.
Conversation avec l'étang du Trou aux Gants et ses proches, en forêt de Meudon.

Un seul espace suffit à tous les êtres : l’espace intérieur du monde. 
En silence les oiseaux volent au travers de nous.

Durch alle Wesen reicht der eine Raum: Weltinnenraum. 
Die Vögel fliegen still durch uns hindurch.

Through every being goes a single space: worldinnerspace. 
The birds fly silently through us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Another morning outside, to get fresh air and forget the song, forget the names of what we hear in order to really listen.
Just at dawn, a kind of opening towards the interior of the world, which is anything but hermetic to the noises of the earthlings even in the sky.
Raw conversation with the Trou aux Gants pond and its relatives, in the Meudon forest.

Earigami

Earigami #2: Etang

This is Side A of the mixtape - hear also Side B:
https://soundcloud.com/listentosteve/doing-bird-b

Inmates at HMP Perth engage with archive birdsong and oral history recordings from the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in a unique, creative audio art collaboration. Peesweeps meet hip hop beats, grouse unlock coded prison language, and an unhatched kestrel chick provokes philosophy…

https://scotlands-sounds.nls.uk/index.php/2022/04/19/doing-bird-scotlands-sounds-at-hmp-perth/

https://www.listentosteve.com/doingbird

‘Doing Bird’ is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
It’s also supported by the National Librarian’s Innovation Fund, and by the Scottish Prison Service.

Doing Bird mixtape - Side A

An excerpt from a profile of the late Professor Angus C Graham, which I made for OpenAir.fm bak in 2010. I must have prepared this excerpt for some reason over the years, but I can't think what it was. So rather than let it go to waste…

For the full feature: http://www.coffeeflavouredtea.net/wordpress/?p=1898
For more celebrations of AC Graham: https://www.soas.ac.uk/sci/events/ac-graham-memorial-lectures/

FX credit: The World War II siren sound came from Guitarguy1985 on the freesound Project.


Angus Graham Brings Down The House

O'ROURKE

The War On Cars, a new podcast from Sarah Goodyear (@buttermilk1), Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke), and Aaron Naparstek (@Naparstek). Produced by Curtis Fox. Music by Nathaniel Goodyear.

In this pilot episode, we discuss why the world needs a War on Cars and ask if tech—and more specifically tech companies—can save our cities from the car. Are e-scooters, Lyft buses, and self-driving Ubers running through Elon Musk's tunnels the wave of the future, or are they a harbinger of dystopia?

Episode 1: Why the World Needs a War on Cars

TINY TUNES FROM THE WILDER WORLD

How does one become a butterfly?
You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
― Trina Paulus

Quelque part au bout d’un monde, Phaune Radio se balade dans les plis du vivant, là où tout peut surgir, à la recherche de ce qui n’est pas encore – mais qui est peut-être déjà là. Dans le présent amplifié de la métamorphose, on traque et détraque le fil du temps pour franchir les seuils de ces révolutions intérieures qui nous font changer d’ère. A perte de vue, au creux de votre oreille, un jeu de miniatures sonores qui vont là où, pour devenir soi, on devient autre.

Depuis la nuit des temps – 201 millions d’années, plus précisément, le papillon est devenu maitre dans l’art de la réincarnation. De l’oeuf à l’imago, notre lépidoptère renonce successivement à au moins 3 corps avant de pouvoir prendre les airs et se rapprocher du ciel. Parce que si la chenille vorace a comme une tête de noeud, pour le papillon, essentiellement, la propriété, c’est le vol.
Récit minuscule d’une vie immense de papillon, presque sans effet.
A ce stade, tout est possible…

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How does one become a butterfly?
You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
― Trina Paulus

Somewhere at the end of a world, Phaune Radio travels in the folds of the living, where everything can arise, in search of what is not yet - but what is perhaps already there.
In the amplified present of metamorphosis, we keep tracking and bending the thread of time to cross over the thresholds of these inner revolutions that give us fresh hair.
Out of sight, right in your ear dip, here’s a set of sound miniatures that lead us to where, to become oneself, one becomes another.

Since the dawn of time - 201 million years, more precisely - the butterfly has become a master in the art of reincarnation. From the egg to the imago, our lepidoptere renounces successively at least 3 bodies before being able to take flight and get closer to the sky. Because when the voracious caterpillar has its stomach full, the butterfly, essentially, can be made up on the fly.
Tiny story of the immense life of a butterfly, almost without effect.
On this stage, everything is possible.

Tiny Tunes From The Wilder World

Tiny Tunes, Metamorphoses: Butterfly

Counting Manx Shearwaters on Skomer Island, Wales, in June 2018. An episode of Conservation Sound by Connor Walsh. ConservationSound.wordpress.com.

This episode is mostly me with field recordings.

Although I was at the time volunteering to help in a Manx Shearwater census, this podcast does not represent the organisers of the census is any way: the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales; the mega wardens Bee and Edd; the university and academics using the data; or the other volunteers. It is purely my own project.

Not walking on eggshells

Whirlpool skies, ghostly apparitions, a mysterious traveler... Wake early and drink in a magical pre-dawn moment with Aoko Matsuda's story, "Starry Night."

From the winter 2019 issue: https://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Winter-2019/247/

"Starry Night" by Aoko Matsuda (translated by Polly Barton)

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
― James Bryant Conant

Après 80 jours sous le sable, les jeunes tortues nouvellement écloses creusent de toutes leurs forces pour émerger à la surface du sable, sur la plage.
Dès les premiers pas hors du nid terrestre, il s’agit de combiner les perceptions d’une multitude de signaux pour s’orienter : lumière, reflets des étoiles, sons des vagues, rythme des lames, inclinaison des sols…
Et surtout, faire confiance à la magnétite, un composé métallique contenue dans leur cerveau qui leur permet de sentir le champ magnétique terrestre et donc de se diriger.
Question de vie ou de mort, rejoindre l’océan demande des efforts titanesques. Chaque petit pas compte. Peu importe la vitesse, un pied devant l’autre...
Appel du grand large et maintien du cap, morceaux de bravoure en écailles pour un temps déterminé.
A ce stade, tout est possible.

Tiny Tunes From The Wilder World, une série à suivre pas à pas pour commencer du bon pied.

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After 80 days under the sand, newly hatched young turtles dig with all their might to reach the sand surface, on the beach.
From the early moments out of the earthly nest, it's all about combining perceptions of many signals to navigate: light, reflection of the stars, sounds of the waves, floor angles.
Above all, trust the magnetite, a metal compound embedded in their brain that allows them to navigate by feeling the earth magnetic field.
As a matter of life & death, reaching the ocean requires daunting efforts. Every step matters. No matter how fast, one foot in front of the other...
Call of the sea & staying on track, bravery in scales for a specified period.
On this stage, everything is possible.

Tiny Tunes From The Wilder World, a series to take step by step to get off on the right foot.

Tiny Tunes, Metamorphoses: Sea Turtle

The amazing rhythmic sound of streams of thousands of oxygen bubbles being released during photosynthesis from a piece of pondweed - Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum). Recorded in a pond and later in a bowl. Sunny. Air temp 18 deg C. DolphinEar Pro to SD MixPre 3. Hessay, Yorkshire April 2020.
https://simontelliott.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/a-miracle-of-nature-the-sound-of-a-plant/

Hornwort photosynthesis

In this week’s episode of Keywords, Zoe Comyns is guided by the word ‘Light’.

Beginning in her garden with the night sky filled with stars - including the constellation Corona Borealis.

Margaret Dennehy’s poem ‘Three Little Words’ is a reflection on the language used around and the social impact of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Margaret is a retired teacher from Co.Waterford.

In his piece for Keywords called ‘C’, Colm O’Shea thinks about how the speed of light can separate two people on their walk.
Colm’s short fiction has been published widely. He has won many awards including The 2019 Aleph Writing Prize. He lives in Dublin.

Writer Manika Bébhinn Ramsay lives in Brazil and she recorded in the forest by her home. She compares the light in Brazil and the light of Ireland and how the gentle lights of home seem so far away now.

The artist Martin Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001 with his work Lights Going On and Off. A room was filled with lights going on and off in 5 second intervals. His was a controversial win and he explains that it was inspired by the childish prank of flicking the light switch outside a bathroom door.

Dónal Ryan is the author of numerous novels and collections of stories and has won many awards including The Guardian First Book Award in 2013. In his short story written for Keywords, a proud father keeps a row of lights in his house for his three children. When the middle one begins to play up he realizes that he needs to connect with his middle son, Joshua.

Tom Roseingrave’s ‘Cow’ is, he says, an audio experiment to investigate what happens in the darkness, and whether the voice remains the same when the lights returns. 
Tom is a radio producer, writer and performer. 

We return to the stars with filmmaker and sound designer Tadhg O’Sullivan. He reflects on the giant red star called Betelguese, and the ship named after it. Tadhg brings us to Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay and the site of a terrible maritime disaster where 50 people died in an explosion in 1979.

Keywords is presented and produced by Zoë Comyns and is a New Normal Culture production for RTÉ Radio 1 Extra.
Assistant Producer: Regan Hutchins
The series is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision 3 Scheme and by RTÉ

03. Light

Radio fan, volunteers at In The Dark, occasional podcaster. But round these parts I'm representing myself, no one else!

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