Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He is an angel investor/advisor (Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Uber, and 20+ more) and author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef.

Newsweek has called him "the world's best human guinea pig," which he takes as a compliment. His experiments can be found at www.fourhourblog.com

He enjoys eating handfuls of bear claws on Saturdays.

The Media Arts Committee is dedicated to supporting the production and sharing of sound art in Vancouver, BC and globally.

In a profoundly unsilent world, noise stands in for silence. Amplified to a roar, stretched, compressed and filtered, it becomes a thundering black backdrop to how small experience becomes by having to filter out detail.

On the other hand, black noise is a space - the negative roar left behind after the sudden ending of any continuous sound field. It's not unlike the state sought in the practice of meditation, but more immanent and beyond one's control, and commonly only of short duration.

Blacknoise is a performative investigation into these unsilent silences.

Interesting Vancouver Presents, is a series of conversations with ordinary Vancouverites leading extraordinary lives. 

This podcast is hosted and produced by David Swanson, with support from Brett MacFarlane and Mark Busse, in association with SFU Woodward’s, Graphic Designers of Canada, and CreativeMornings/Vancouver.

Interesting Vancouver is a celebration of the curious and unexpected. Through talks, workshops, and programs, Interesting Vancouver explores the community and activities that can only happen in Vancouver and by Vancouverites. Once a year we gather together to showcase the region’s most interesting people and the myriad ways they express their creativity through hobbies, passions, and obsessions. There is always a degree of spontaneity, unexpected moments, and discovery which makes it exciting and inspiring. What makes you interesting?

For more information, to subscribe, or get in touch, visit us at www.interestingvancouver.com.



Joël is a Vancouver-based composer and writer. He has also worked in film as a sound designer and director.
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At an early age, Joël was intrigued by sound, an attraction that began with his father's record collection and lead to his study of music composition. In addition to this profound fascination with sound, Joël was equally drawn to mysticism, mythology and science. This cocktail of interests took him on to further studies of the martial arts, yoga, meditation and bioenergetic modalities.

Over the years, Joël has initiated several innovative projects focusing on altered states of consciousness and healing through music and sound. His writing, classes and workshops, concerts, and film work focus on creating a deeper understanding of the relationship of sound to consciousness, self-knowledge, compassion, and spirituality.

View his official site at: joeltibbits.com

Audio channel of The World Community for Christian Meditation with news, interviews, talks and music. Contact: Leonardo Corrêa (leonardo@wccm.org)

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