31 July 2013

Prologue: Senior editor Matt Willey introduces this month's podcast on Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, opened in 1869 on Seneca Lake, New York State. It's mission, to "Treat the chronically insane with gentleness and understanding". Nearly 50'000 patients lived at Willard during its 127 year history and roughly half died there.

When it closed its doors in 1995, workers stumbled upon a discovery that shed an unknown light on the lives of Willard's patients...

Karen Miller, a psychiatrist and poet who's spent the last several years researching the histories of Willard's former patients, talks to former employees Sally Dawley and Peg Ellsworth, who started working at Willard's in 1948. Miller explains how Willard, the first psychiatric hospital in New York, was home to more than 4'000 patients at one time during the 1920s and 30s, and the cultural attitude to mental illness at the time.

We also meet photographer Jon Crispin has been tasked with documenting the suitcases of patients, found in the attic of the abandoned hospital by a member of its former staff. Each case contains the only personal belongings of its owner, brought in when committed, and kept after their death...

Credits:

Produced by Barney Rowntree


Jon Crispin, photographer
Karen Leslie Miller, psychiatrist and a poet
Sally Dawley, former Willard employee
Peg Ellsworth, therapy aide at Willard
Reading, William Kherbek


Port opening credits by Jean-Gabriel Becker, Sounds And Sons

Music credits:
Artist: Anenon
Title: Eighty-Four
Label: Non Projects

Artist: Danny Paul Grody
Title: Four years
Label: Root Strata

Artist: Ikebana
Title: Ends
Label: Flau

Artist: Brave Timbers
Title: All the things you couldn’t say
Label: Second language music

Artist: Brave Timbers
Title: More like the oak than the willow
Label: Second language music

Artist: CFCF
Title: Exercises 1 (Entry)
Label: Dummy

The Port Podcast 04: Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane

In 1963, photographer Dan Budnik sat behind Martin Luther King Jr. as he delivered his most famous speech. 50 years later, he sat down with Port’s Barney Rowntree to discuss the stories behind his images documenting the American Civil Rights struggle, including the pivotal Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, which will be included in his Kickstarter book project Marching To The Freedom Dream, to be published by Trolley.

Click for more information on the project, or visit www.danbudnik.com

Audio produced & edited
Barney Rowntree

Music

Artist: Mahalia Jackson
Title: ‘Trouble of the World’
Label: Couch and Mason Partners
Artist: J.B. Lenoir
Title: ‘Alabama March Blues’
Label: L+R Records
Artist: J.B. Lenoir
Title: ‘Alabama March’
Label: L+R Records

Artist: CFCF
Track: Exercise 4
Label: Dummy recordings

The Port Podcast – 05: Dan Budnik's Decisive Moment

The last issue of Port considered the future of the printed magazine, talking to the editors of longstanding publications like the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. Magazines are coming to terms today with how print and digital complement each other, but in the online world, is the role of the editor under threat? Do we now live in an algo-world shaped by the intelligence of anonymous processes rather than the emotional decisions of humans? Will algorithms play a role in how we write and consume news?

Part One: Kevin Slavin, Assistant Professor and founder of Playful Systems Group at MIT explains how, increasingly, modern life is affected by algorithms and computations that leave no signature on our conscious, and why, some writers are no longer writing with a human reader in mind…

Part two: Frederick Fischer, CEO of Tame explains that social media has managed to separate content from the news brands, and how the power has shifted from editors to the developers, changing the role of the modern journalist completely.

Part three: Luke Lewis, editor of Buzzfeed UK explains how the website 'predicts' what content will be popular with readers...

Produced by Phil Smith

Music:

Artist: Jamieo Brown
Track: I Said 
Label: Motema
year: 2013

Artist: Gabriel Prokofiev & Peter Gregson
Track: Tuff Strum (Louis D'Heudieres Remix) 
Label: Nonclassical 
Year: 2012

Artist: New Musik
Track: Warp 
Label: Epic 
year: 1982

Artist: Hello Skinny
Track: Remember 
Year: 2012

Artist: Thundercat
Track: The Life Aquatic 
Label: Brainfeeder 
Year: 2013

Artist: Metro Area
Track: Machine Vibes 
Label: Environ 
Year: 2002

Artist: Suzanne Vega
Track: Tom's Diner 
Label: A&M 
Year: 1987

Artist: Laurel Halo
Track: Hour Logic
Label: Hippos In Tanks 
Year: 2011

The Port Podcast: 06 – Predicting the Future

Port regular Nathaniel Rich introduces the first of his Letters From New Orleans collection, serialised in Port. In this first letter, written for our inaugural issue, Nathaniel takes us to post-Katrina New Orleans where life may have changed, but the attitude towards it remains resolute…

The Port Podcast 07: Letters from New Orleans – A City of People Unnoticed

What's the best thing about Louisiana's finest city? The jazz? Nope. It's the bread made with love, care and a whole lot of contamination. Nathaniel Rich reveals the secret of sandwiches in our second 'Letter from New Orleans' by the celebrated author.

Read by Nathaniel Rich
Edited & produced by Barney Rowntree


The Port Podcast 08 – Letters From New Orleans: A Toxic Treat

1. Radiation - Yvette 
2. Stilettos - Holy fuck
4. Mighty girl - Linstrom & Prins Thomas 

ISSEY MIYAKE Soundtrack AW13

27 February 2014

In his hometown, author Nathaniel Rich takes a murder mystery tour where the cops are the bad guys...


Written and read by Nathaniel Rich
Edited & produced by Barney Rowntree

The Port Podcast 09: Letter From New Orleans – Playing Cops and Cops

Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki's recording '	 Analapos (A-1) Opening Music For Yokosuka Museum Of Art', taken from the album K7.

TCommissioned by the Yokosuka Museum of Art to be played at opening and closing time. Recorded at the Museum on 9-10 January, 2007, it is given here with the artist's permission.

Akio Suzuki K7 Box - 'Analapos (A-1) Opening Music For Yokosuka Museum Of Art'

Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki's recording of 'Analapos (B-1)', taken from album K7 Box (released Sept 2007).

Given with permission by the artist.

Akio Suzuki K7 Box - 'Analapos (B-1)'

28 May 2014

For many of us, gender is something that we think of in black and white terms, a binary of male and female. In the womb, we are prescribed gender identities, before the nucleus of our personalities are even formed. But gender is something more than anatomy: it is something more than physicality. It is beyond the simple, limited terms of 'male' and 'female'. 

What happens when we challenge these judgements placed upon us? What happens when we take a journey into gender, of our own accord, discovering along the way who we really are, rather than who we are told we should be?

In this podcast, we meet Jake, Felix and Matt, three trans-people who are undertaking this very journey. 

We also talk with activity and professor of equality law, Stephen Whittle OBE, about his experience overcoming the UK's discriminatory laws. 

Produced by Barney Rowntree
Production assistance Betty Wood

Music
Antony & The Johnsons

Special thanks to Professor Stephen Whittle OBE, Jake, Matt, Felix and Jay. 


The Port Podcast 11: A Journey Through Gender

Beginning with a speculative letter written aged 12 to actress Lillian Gish for a school project – the star of The Wind (1928) and frequent muse of controversial film director D.B.Griffith – Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse embarked on a stream of correspondence with Hollywood’s vanguard that would continue for the next 30 years.

Here they share the story of how two boys from Surrey ended up befriending Hollywood's elite, and embarking on a journey that would taking them to LA...

The Port Podcast 10: A Hollywood Story

10 April 2013

Prologue:  Senior editor Matt Willey introduces the first Port podcast on the role of silence in films.

Part One: Silence is a vital element within film, but one which we rarely give thought to.
We hear from writer George Michelson Foy on how the noisy experience of modern living led him in search of the acoustic dream – absolute silence.  

Part Two: Acclaimed sound designer and editor Paul Davies explains how he conducts tension using near silence, room tone and drones rather than a traditional musical cue in his films, which include Steve McQueen's "Hunger" and Lynne Ramsey's "We Need To Talk About Kevin".

Credits:

Produced by Barney Rowntree

Port opening credits by Jean-Gabriel Becker, Sounds And Sons

Music credits:

Song: Jamais
Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg 
Label: Because Music 

Song: Cube
Artist: Hauschka
Label: Fat Cat Records


Song: Dreams of Stairs
Artist: Taylor Deupree
Label: 12K

Song: In the Androgynous Dark 
Artist: Brambles
Label: Serein

Song: Side A
Artist: David Lynch and Alan R. Splet 
Label: Sacred Bones Records

Song: Right up Rooster 
Artist: Padang Food Tigers
Label:Under the Spire


The Port Podcast: 01 Silence in Films

8 May 2013

Prologue: Port senior producer Matt Willey introduces the second Port Podcast on the theme of Resolution in Film.

Part One: Neil Brand is a London based pianist composer and writer. Best known as an accompanist for silent film, he talked to us about the importance of resolution for film music...

Credits:

Produced by Barney Rowntree

Port opening credits by Jean-Gabriel Becker, Sounds And Sons

Music credits:

Artist: Brambles 
Title: Such Owls as You
Album: Charcoal 
Label: Serein

Artist: Bernard Herrmann
Title: Main Title
Album: Sisters OST 
Label: Southern Cross

The Port Podcast: 02 Resolution in Film Music

1 June 2013

Prologue: Senior editor Matt Willey introduces this week’s theme – dubbing in French cinema. Since the 1930s, France has remained one of several European countries that choose to dub foreign films with the voices of their own, French-speaking actors. It might get bad press here in the UK, but in France, dubbing is considered an art form…

Part One: The French Bruce Willis. When the French see Bruce Willis onscreen, they hear Patrick Poivey. From Moonlighting to Die Hard, Patrick has dubbed the action hero for almost 30 years. He explains how his career as one of the most recognised voices in France grew from idle days spent in Paris…

Part Two: Francoise Cadol is the French Angelina. As the voice of Lara Croft Francoise’s work voicing other actresses has attracted fame in its own right. With her own fan club, Francoise explains the phenomenon of having people turn around to ask for your autograph when ordering a coffee…

Part Three:In Paris, where acting schools thrive, so too do dubbing schools. But do actors really need to learn how to double? And is dubbing having an adverse effect on the foreign-language skills of France’s primary and secondary school students?

Credits:
Produced by Barney Rowntree

Port opening credits by Jean-Gabriel Becker, Sounds And Sons

Music credits:
Artist: Brambles
Title: To speak of solitude
label: Serein
Artist: Sébastien Tellier
Title: La Ballade Du Georges
Label: Lucky Number Music Limited
Artist: Hauschka
Title: Cube
Label Fat Cat records
Artist: Sébastien Tellier
Title: Le Long De La Riviere Tendre
Label: Lucky Number Music Limited


The Port Podcast 03: Les Grand Doubleurs

We premier the jazz-heavy beat from  Tomas Maier’s Milan show

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