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 and even catch an improvised performance deep inside a cave... Enjoy the spatialized field recordings with very little processing save layering, mixing and mastering - with locations from Berlin to New Zealand, South Africa to Finland -  captured in a single, sonic ramble through the holidays. May it warm your holidays by giving you a great reason to turn down the lights, grab your headphones, put tired feet up by the fire, and let your ears do the walking this holiday season. With love, from us to you!

Keep great sounds like this going by becoming a Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest 

With a shout out to all our current Patreons - thanks for all your ongoing support!

With our eternal thanks to Radio Aporee and Free Music Archive artists - who deserve recognition this time of year. A list of all recordings included are below.

Sound recordings/phonography, in no particular order:

From Radio Aporee (aporee.org):

Winter walk / ул. Лесная, Сергиев Посад, Московская обл., Россия, 141307 - Alex K

Leaving our microphones by a waterhole at night / Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa - Jeremy Hegge

Outflow of Lake Pupuke, contact mic / 26 Minnehaha Avenue, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand - summerxc@gmail.com

white dragon, sleeping still, green giant immersed within tranquil dreams / moss garden, Studenice, Slovenija - OR poiesis

Berlin's loudest sonic place? / Westend, Berlin, Germany - Peter Cusack

Freiluftkonzert des Nordholländischen Jugendorchesters auf dem Neumarkt / Open air concert of the North Dutch Youth Orchestra / Altstadt-Nord, Köln, Deutschland - Matthes

moss garden, dry, flux / moss waterfall, Studenice, Slovenija - OR poiesis

Kauwberg under the bridge / Kauwberg 22, 1180 Uccle, Belgique - Flavien Gillié

Vilnius, Lithuania, Rasos cemetery - alas23/sala

Kalamaja park (former cemetery) / A sonic walk and deep listening to Kalamaja 2 (from Kai Center) - bruno.quast

cemetery ambience, trains / Friedhof Baumschulenweg, Berlin, Deutschland - udo noll

Jet Crows Birds Feet / Recordings in the Garage, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK - david.j.pitt@btinternet.com

Owls in the night / Recordings in the Garage, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK - david.j.pitt@btinternet.com

Conference of crows / Piirimäe, Põlva maakond, Estonia - john grzinich

Winter forest solitude / Järvselja primeval, Tartumaa, Estonia - john grzinich

Wind, snow and hiking / Mustarinda forest, Hyrynsalmi, Finland - john grzinich

내리는雪＿overnight snowfall / 내리는雪＿overnight snowfall - abyssence@gmail.com

Utena, Lithuania, flag poles in wintery wind / Utena, Lithuania, flag poles in wintery wind - alas23/sala

Burning Laurel Leaves, Bredenbury, Herefordshire, UK / Bonfire - david.j.pitt

Electricity pole resonance / Šlavantai, Lithuania - Marius Paulikas

wind im kulturpalast warschau - udo noll

Býčí skála (a cave), Czech Republic / Handpan improvisation - Pavel Paseka

From Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/):

Audiotransparent - December Radio - by coverclub.nl
Shchedryk by Mystery Mammal

A Winter's Soundwalk

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, and know you won't be disturbed.

The article referred to in this episode, on how we process voices in sleep, is in New Scientist, and you can find it here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304918-unknown-voices-spark-more-brain-activity-in-sleep-than-familiar-ones/

I mentioned Ione's book "Listening in Dreams" and you can pick up a copy of that and explore more about Deep Listening over here: https://www.deeplistening.org/

Sound installation under opening from Radio Aporee, "Overnight Snowfall" ambient phonotraphy, 2021. By abyssence@gmail.com

Overnight Dreaming Part 1

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, and know you won't be disturbed.

The article referred to in this episode, on how we process voices in sleep, is in New Scientist, and you can find it here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304918-unknown-voices-spark-more-brain-activity-in-sleep-than-familiar-ones/

I mentioned Ione's book "Listening in Dreams" and you can pick up a copy of that and explore more about Deep Listening over here: https://www.deeplistening.org/

Sounds Curious Podcast

Overnight Dreaming Part 2

Please note: There is no audio branding or intro in this episode
If 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 track. Timed to follow a full sleep cycle,  the work is composed, recorded and produced by Renée T. Coulombe. Let the vocal overtones transform in your ears as they hang in the resonant space of the reverberations. 

With a huge shoutout to our Patreons at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest who requested this track! 

Continuing our exploration into music for dreaming, for deep meditation or falling asleep - this track uses only a single voice as primary source materials. Like and subscribe if you would like more of this content.

Invitation to Dream

Find out more (including the lineup and links to all the artists) over at www.anarchyinthegarden.org

Tracks 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.net

Laure Boer's piece Soleil ébloui - www.laureboer.com

Biwanoha by Aine E. Nakamura (www.evaaine.com)

An unpublished track from Les Demoiselles D'Analogues, featuring Aude Rrose (www.aude-f.com) and Renée T. Coulombe (www.reneetcoulombe.com) 

And a big thanks to Elo Masing (https://soundcloud.com/elo-masing)for her wonderful thoughts on women in the experimental arts!

A huge shout out to our Willows Nest Patreons!! If you'd like to join them in supporting the work we do, chec it out  over at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest

A big thanks to Musikfonds and Bezirksamt Pankow for supporting the Festival. And find out more about Kühlspot over at https://kuehlspot.com/index.html

Anarchy In The Garden

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...

Alfred Surenyan (and the music of Star Wars)

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.com


Pilot (Part 1)

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....

Anyway, lots of fun in this second half of the pilot.  More musical tracks, including "Like Lisa" (check out the track on the banshee media soundcloud page, or over at http://www.reneetcoulombe.com)

A big thank you to the folks over at http://www.aporee.org/maps, and radio aporee, for hosting so many incredible field recordings that we are addicted to!  Today's is by Jeremy Hegge, and is called "Leaving our microphones by a waterhole at night" and was recorded  at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa.  Recording made during the 'Sonic Mmabolela' residency organized by Francisco Lopez and James Webb.  My apologies for mis-stating that it was Mozambique in the episode - did too much listening today and got a bit confused, my extreme bad.

More information about this and all our episodes can be found at http://www.bansheemedia.com and look for the podcast page.  We try and get show notes up within a few days of each episode.

A big shout out to Pauline Oliveros, and to Deep Listeners everywhere, for all you do!

Pilot (Part 2)

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 the conversation never faltered, winding through the history of film, composing for magic and ritual, opera, and more.

More information on our guest can be found at http://www.alfredsurenyan.org as well as his music company, Pasha Music http://www.PashaMusic.com.  He runs a great blog on these subjects as well - find that at http://pashamusic.wordpress.com

More information on this episode and all our featured artists can also be found at the Banshee Media web page at http://www.bansheemedia.com

Alfred Surenyan and the Music of Star Wars

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 arrangements used in the episode by George himself, and  available through his Soundcloud page over at:  http://www.soundcloud.com/george-reid

they include:  

https://soundcloud.com/george-reid/enya-orinoco-flow-8-bit-remix

https://soundcloud.com/george-reid/reddwarf8bitcover

https://soundcloud.com/george-reid/aquarium-fm-chiptune-demo

https://soundcloud.com/george-reid/droid-romance

We even have a full length bibliography for the show - if you want to do the reading, you can find many of the articles and books we mention at http://www.bansheemedia.com in the notes for the podcast.

Also mentioned in the show:

Toejam & Earl: Panic on Funkatron. (Sega Megadrive/Genesis). Track: 'Funky Alien' - by John Baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvKL-bX4uA

The Chaos Engine. (Commodore Amiga). Track: 'The Forest' - by Richard Joseph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtIBdrWsvE



George Reid talks Chiptune, nomads, fans and nostalgia

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 media featured in the podcast, check out the show notes at http://www.bansheemedia.com on the Sounds Curious page.  We have further links to work by Regina Hansen, as well as selected media clips and links for further listening/reading.  

A big shout out once again to radio aporee (http://aporee.org/maps/) and all the field recording artists who upload their materials over there.  

Another big shout out to the Free Music Archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/) and all the artists who make their work available there as well.  This week we'd particularly like to thank The Tudor Consort for their gorgeous recording of Giovanni Animuccia: Missa Victimae Paschali Laudes.  We'll have links to further information about the composer and the ensemble over at the show notes.

Regina Hansen talks Supernatural

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 and Thijs Geritz (Istanbul) and two anonymous artists (Karaot Village, Torbali İzmir / Turkey Coffee House; Sonopoetic path, Maribor, Slovenia).  

Check the detailed show notes over at www.bansheemedia.com for links to these pieces over at Radio Aporee (aporee.org/maps) and well as a preview of coming show topics and media!  While the episode sounds fine without headphones, we recommend for the binaural pieces at least you throw them on (unless you have misophonia, in which case you might want to skip the episode entirely... )

Sonic Cartography and Creative Geography

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 to link to everyone mentioned in the conversation - might take a while to put together, but further information will be at the Banshee Media site in the show notes just as quickly as we can!

More information on the Deep Listening day at EMPAC in Troy, New York:  http://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/

More information about Composer-PerformerKristin Norderval's upcoming Opera Premiere in Montreal, Canada at http://kristinnorderval.org/artists/the-trials-of-patricia-isasa/


Composer-Performer Jane Rigler

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://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27680&m=satellite'>radio aporee ::: maps - Quai Saint-Vincent, Lyon, France

Field Recording by Bruce Miller:  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broos/Field_Recordings_from_India/09_-_sitar__tabla_duo

Audio Example of Mbuti song after collecting honey and hunting:  http://youtu.be/D5cxG2n2-Wg

More links on these topics and many others at http://www.bansheemedia.com




Schizophonia

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 

Desert Gothic

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_sEToCn-JLOSOFEpEnh

Batcave 13: Never so True - https://youtu.be/FnyuLZKqoYA?list=PLlF_eOb5u-coRI_sEToCn-JLOSOFEpEnh

Red Temple Spirits: Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun  -    https://youtu.be/y05eTwT_Y3E?list=PLlF_eOb5u-coRI_sEToCn-JLOSOFEpEnh


Sound installations featured in Today's Episode:

Opening:  (can't find the artist on this upload)  HF1BambooStill.mp3    From:  http://aporee.org/maps/work/download.php?id=14941,%20http://aporee.org/maps/work/search/, 

Chanting/Mengjia Longshan Temple, Taipei:  Tsang-Chen Wu   From:
http://aporee.org/maps/work/download.php?id=21214, http://aporee.org/maps/work/search/

Gamelan Music:  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gamelan_Nyai_Saraswati/An_Evening_of_Javanese_Music_and_Dance/gamelan_nyai_saraswati_-_06_-_bubaran_udan_mas


Links to the articles mentioned in the news segment over at http://www.bansheemedia.com - check them out!  



Gothic Psychedelia and the War on Consciousness

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 Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org):

Natural Snow Buildings:  "Gothic Suburbia" from "The Night Country"
Simon Mathewson: "Gothic Son" from "Osseoperception"
Bureaucratica: "Southern Gothic" from "Calling All Fiends"

More information on our guest can be found at:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/staff/cv.php?staffnum=855

For complete show notes, as always, go to bansheemedia.com

Sounding The Shadows with Isabella van Elferen

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-Women-Excelling-at-Making-Experimental-Music

Sarah Badr/FRKTL:
https://soundcloud.com/shbadr

The track we featured “Zero Point Field” here: https://soundcloud.com/shbadr/frktl-zero-point-field?in=shbadr/sets/frktl-qualia-previews
 
Nadah El Shazly:
https://soundcloud.com/nadah-el-shazly

Track we featured “Afqid” Live @Room Art Space, Cairo: https://soundcloud.com/nadah-el-shazly/afqid-live-room-art-space-cairo-nov-2015

Nur (Nour Emam): 
https://soundcloud.com/thisisnur

Track we featured “Without You”:  
https://soundcloud.com/thisisnur/without-you?in=thisisnur/sets/sounds-from-a-distance-ep

Aya Metwalli:
https://soundcloud.com/ayametwalli

The Track we featured here “النور مقطوع”:
https://soundcloud.com/ayametwalli/ujz4uhrui2iw?in=ayametwalli/sets/ayametwalli

Hana Yousri (J!n)
https://soundcloud.com/izumi-j-n

Track we featured here “Ex-“ from Skarecro” https://soundcloud.com/izumi-j-n/sets/skarecro

Bosaina:
https://soundcloud.com/bosaina

Track we featured here today: https://soundcloud.com/bosaina/new-york-april-26th-2013-1?in=bosaina/sets/ny-apr-jul-2013-wip

Ola Saad:
https://soundcloud.com/ola-saad

Track we featured here: https://soundcloud.com/ola-saad/game1

Cairo Laboratories

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 Vaughn Williams) recorded on the album Mellotronworks by Mike Dickson.  Find out more about the album at: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/index.html

More reading about the Mellotron in a nice article by Mike Pinder: http://www.mikepinder.com/?page_id=159

Audio Postcards from the Road Less Traveled

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 the buildings of the Zenkō-ji Temple / Zenkō-ji Temple, Motoyoshichō Nagano, Nagano-shi, Nagano-ken 381-0000, Japan, Felicity Ford, 2017.
-weather report / gorod Vorkuta, République des Komis, Russie, pablo Sala, 2013.
-Freight Train in a Blizzard / Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, Sylvia Shale, 2015.
-Glacier Lagoon / Jokulsárlón, Iceland, Justin Bennett, 2015.
-Antarctic underwater sounds, PALAOA Project, 2007.
-Livestream from Antarctic Ocean, PALAOA Project, 2007.
-Anyksciai, Lithuania, in the crack of ice, alas23/sala, 2017
-Rain and ice (author/date unknown)
-sleighs / Sniezka mountain, Maciej Janasik, 2017.
-Snow on Fence in Berlin, John Grzinich, 2010.

Final OR poiesis series:
-small stream poema / piramida, maribor, January 1, 2014.
-small stream poema with snow / piramida, maribor, January 28, 2014
-stream poema for lying trees / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, February 3, 2014
-in need for a poema / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, February 21, 2017.
-drops / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, March, 7, 2014.
-now everything is green here / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, April, 8, 2014.
-almost inaudible stream spring poema / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, April 14, 2014.
-almost dry stream, distant thunder / fourth pond, piramida, maribor, June 15, 2015.

More information about this or any of our shows can be found at www.bansheemedia.com.

Spring Thaw

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

A New Adventure

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 overnight dreaming still available!  (as of December 15, 2018).

Final track is “Not Art Dream Song” from the same work, featured in Framework Radio’s program curated by sound artist Vortichez and featuring deep listeners.  Hear the show at http://www.frameworkradio.net/2018/05/641-2018-05-13/

More information on Vortichez at https://soundcloud.com/vortichez

Solstice Dreaming

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://aporee.org/maps/work/details.html?sndid=48984

More information on 
Chris Tonelli: rug.academia.edu/ChrisTonelli

Gabriel Dharmoo: gabrieldharmoo.org/en/home

Ute Wassermann: femmes-savantes.net/en/lesfemmessav…ute-wassermann/

David Moss: www.davidmossmusic.com/

Tomomi Adachi: www.adachitomomi.com/n/biography.html

Like and review us if you like the show! On Apple podcasts, this really helps us get discovered. Find out more about our Berlin activities at www.willowsnest.org. Show notes always at www.bansheemedia.com, and updates on global performances and events at www.improvisedalchemy.com.

Voices Found (Part 2)

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 and for just 5 dollars a month you can get an audio digest featuring the best performances, installations, sound art, interviews and more going on right here on our tiny stage in Friedrichshain.  Higher levels get you live streams of our events, hangouts with the founder and featured artists - even weekends at The Nest to experience the magic yourself!

I want to thank every artist who has stepped through our door already in Berlin, every audience member or workshop participant or student who has supported us with their presence.  Lastly, an enormous thank you to Ashram, Interaxia, and Marko Ivic whose gorgeous sounds grace this episode and this space. 

To hear Ashram, jump to 13:39  www.findmyashram.com (and check out their latest music video!  It's amazing!) 

To hear Interaxia, jump to 25:47  

Which is Anaïs Poulet  http://anaispoulet.com/
Marion Ruault   http://youtu.be/Du2pubOpmgY
Leander Reininghaus  http://leanderreininghaus.bandcamp.com/
Valentin Martel    http://youtu.be/VqEE6BzTzBE

To hear Marko Ivic, jump to 1:24:54
http://glogauair.net/activity/meet-the-artist-marko-ivic/
https://soundcloud.com/marko-ivic

Show notes at www.bansheemedia.com, more on The Willows Nest at www.willowsnest.org.

News From the Nest (a crossover episode)

Sounds Curious: ASMR and Acoustic Intimacy

Please 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 Road, Maafushi, Мальдивы
Artist: ChuprinGA@mail.ru
http://aporee.org/maps/


Hydrophone tracks:

“humpback whales, Boucan cannot, ile de la reunion” and later Hydrophone_Chant des baleines_22/07/2010”   Artist: Pierre Gauthier
http://aporee.org/maps

“large-pond-harlaxton-manor-hydrophone” artist: Vortichez found in the hydrophone recording package.
http://www.freesound.org/people/Vortichez

Performance audio (starts at 39:59 – use ear buds for an even stronger effect):

From “Amplified Bricks” by Brad Nath – performance at The Willows Nest, Berlin on October 20, 2018.  Check out the event page in our archives for links to video by the artists, his remarks on “Acoustectonics” and sounding materials, and a photo of one of his custom-made instruments at http://willowsnest.org/events/amplified-bricks-brad-nath/  
More videos of his work at: https://vimeo.com/bradnath

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ASMR and Acoustic Intimacy (Part 1)

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 greatly appreciated. There are great rewards at every level, too!  We try to feature recordings made in The Willows Nest where possible.

Show notes for recordings used in this episode in order:

freesound.org/people/bajko/sounds/378055/    (Artist: Bajko; title:  “sfx_snow_footstep-02.wav)

freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/447375/    (Artist Felix Blume; title: Wind singing in an old tube on the top of the mountain)

freesound.org/people/dahlJ/sounds/419727/   (Artist: dahlJ; title: “ASMR Tapping)

freesound.org/people/harveyjnz/sounds/360382/   (Artist: Harveyjnz; title: “foam microphone wind screen”)

freesound.org/people/Cass_bass/sounds/401180/      (Artist: Cass_bass; title: “ASMR test, Eating chips, clock ticking, and soft talking and whispering”)

freesound.org/people/That_sound_was_strange/sounds/490896/   (Artist: That sound was strange; title:  Exo Blubl)

From Radio aporee, (aporee.org/maps)Artist:  John Grzinich; title" Mustarinda forest, Hyrynsalm, Finland"


Recording Live at The Willows Nest from D.A.M.P.F. / August of 2019.  From the program information:

"Participants:

Fiona Sullivan (USA): Fiona creates to explore extended vocal possibilities and discover new sonic realms influenced by the beauty and complexity of nature.

Vinyl Dinosaur (NZ/TBA): Amateur Optical Semi-Professional Nonmusician Art. Uses bodies, some virtual. Offers adventure, contemplation and fun sound

Georgie (BO): Bolivian musician, composer and improviser based in Berlin.

Fabs die rakete (DE) – 3….2….1… Oh no fuel…. Again Bpschhhhh#wuuuuusch Chance of success: 0%

Sharon Mercado Nogales (BO): (1994) Dancer/ choreographer from Bolivia, based in Berlin. *terms and conditions apply 

The Willows Nest is a private arts incubator high in a roost above Boxhagener Kiez, that holds space for artistic exploration and development through residencies, gatherings, skill sharing and teaching. We are a completely non-corporate and non-institutional space that invites the Berlin community to experience global arts in a very local setting."

ASMR and Acoustic Intimacy (Part Two)

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 from Brazil and all over South America.   We then jump to a concert of traditional music from Greece and Turkey and the Ufki Bobowski duo of Fatih Ermete (Lute of Istanbul, Ud) and Borys Slowikowski on the frame drums.  While Fatih is from Istanbul and Borys from Poland, the two met in Crete and were drawn together by their mutual love of these musical traditions.  We then slow things down with a stroll in Southern India with Dr. Vijay Kannan, whose Haunting Bamboo: Nada Yoga with Indian Bamboo flute event at The Willows Nest just happened back in October.  This truly haunting and beautiful musical recording includes the moment when he asked a friend in the audience, a wonderful classical singer in this tradition, to improvise with him on the flute!  Finally, we hop the Red Eye 2 Tokyo, a new musical project by composer and multi-instrumentalist Shih-Wei Wu, that fuses the raw energy of Japanese Folk music with the cool sounds of West Coast Jazz.  So sit back, relax, and travel the globe without ever leaving the couch - from our little global Nest perched high atop Boxhagener Strasse...

If you like what we do and want to support our mission, please consider joining The Willows Nest Patreon over at www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest

Audio installation under voiceover:  Felix Blume, "Wind singing in an old tube on the top of the mountain" https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/447375/

More Aristarain-Lewkowicz on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/2oFVmkg7bZc

Ufki Bobowski on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wryTr0BLsWU

Vijay Kannan has his own very successful YouTube channel over at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ6QWInwx5uN4frT6_tHRiQ

Finally Red Eye 2 Tokyo can be found over at www.shihweiwu.com.  You can find their single over at https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/redeye2tokyo  and look for the new album soon!  

If you are in the Los Angeles Area, consider stopping by the RE2T album release party at Angry Horse Brewing Company in Montebello on November 19, 2019!

An Autumn Ramble

This time we celebrate the launch of the new Echozoo project (www.echozoo.org) that imagines the sounds of extinct species in their habitats, my composer and sound artist Michael Riley https://mikronesia.bandcamp.com/  

We ponder the sounds of extinction and the past, and ponder the present of the natural world. With thanks to Radio Aporee and all the artists that upload their sounds over there, so we can keep listening into this big, beautiful world...

...and as always a huge thanks to our Patreons for keeping this show going!! Find our Patreon over at www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest or if you can make a one-time donation at www.paypal.me/bansheemedia to help us cover costs.

Sound installation (intro and under voice) found on Aporee.org/maps: Beautiful early summer morning birdsong / Leafield Rd, Chipping Norton OX7 3DB, UK by artist Mike Taylor (mike@miketaylor.pro)

Selections from Echozoo Project (courtesy of the artist):
Caroline Parakeet
Giant Sloth
Golden-billed Toad
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Saint Helenas Earwig

Closing field recording by Jeremy Hegge "leaving the mics in the forest, tropical dusk to night / Magnetic Island, QLD, Australia"

Long Time Gone

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 series of episodes exploring the musical, psychological and cultural impact of sonic drones. This gentle introduction will be followed with a series of episodes exploring drones from sources both traditional and surprising!

For more on Spitfire Audio and the Spitfire Labs instrument packs, go to: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/ 
The sample packs I used can be found here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/

Field recordings found on Radio Aporee: aporee.org/maps

They include: "Upės gatvė, Lithuania, chimney support wire" and "Utena, Lithuania, fence-geophone" by alas23/sala

and "wind in poplar trees / Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Deutschland" and "dry leaves in the wind, city hum / Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Deutschland"

To join our Patreon, visit www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest
or make a one-time donation at www.paypal.me/bansheemedia

Drones,  Part 1

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/inside-the-mind/human-brain/ambient-music-calm-psychic-maelstrom.htm#:~:text=%22What%20happens%20with%20ambient%20music,scanning%20the%20environment%20for%20danger.

We then ponder for a moment the power of drones to connect us to the world, and all who inhabit it, through deeply restorative soundscapes. After using some drones created by Tibetan singing bowls in the opening, we move on to the brand new "Celestial Music Box" to consider how the star field above us might "sound" if each star could be played like a music box. Thanks to friend of the podcast Michael Riley for granting us permission to use this excerpt!

As always, thanks to all our Patreons for your support! If you'd like to join them in supporting independent arts and production, you can find us on Patreon at https://www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest

You can also support this podcast and the work of our independent productions here at The Willows nest, through a one-time donation at https://www.paypal.me/bansheemedia

Tracks in order of audition:

(Under the voice): Glen Hoban “Singing Bowl Tanpura 1 & 3.” These were published in September of 2018. From the composer’s notes: “The sound of a "G" ('Throat Chakra') Himalayan singing bowl being droned, then having the resulting drone copied, pitch-shifted and multi-tracked to produce a long, subtly evolving drone.”
Found on Freesound.org. Find these tracks and more about Glen Hoban at: https://freesound.org/people/Glen_Hoban/

Sound artist and composer Michael Riley (mikronesia) created the Celestial Music Box to be available through Patreon only under the name “Meditative Soundscapes.” Check out his Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/meditativesoundscapes. This one-hour excerpt from the music box was recorded in June 18, 2020 of the sky over Berlin, Germany. Find the trailer for the project on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/rcXzER9eEQI
And check out our episode, "Long Time Gone" for more of Michael's amazing work!

If you are looking for some summer reading, may we at the podcast suggest the New York Public LIbrary's massive, and fabulous, Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List, published on June 9, 2020. So much good stuff, so much summer reading! 

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/09/schomburg-center-black-liberation-reading-list

Because until Black Lives Matter, no lives matter. We are all related, beloveds.

Drones, Part 3

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