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By Andy Pepper
The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.
Douglas Breault is an artist living in Massachusetts. Sound effects in this episode thanks to FreeSound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0) and lasdimot (CC-BY 4.0), and Singing Insects of North America (SINA) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Terry Priest (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
Elly Vadseth is an artist in Norway: “When I swim now in the fjord, I can feel these beings hitting my body, and gliding over my body, and that’s a very new feeling.”
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); benboncan (CC BY 3.0); and florianreichelt (CC0 1.0). Image: Stefan Siebert/National Institutes of Health via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Sofía Córdova is an artist in Oakland: "The part where we see them and we behold them and we witness them is important, but it’s only important in as much as we prioritize our perspective as THE perspective on the planet."
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); neklok and tombenedict (CC BY-SA 4.0); as well as Dmitrii Eliuseev (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons; and NASA (CC0 1.0) via YouTube. Image: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Loretta Park is an artist in Boston: "I think it’s really interesting that there’s so many mixed emotions about this one animal."
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); dmitry-patrakov, juskiddink (CC BY 3.0); and bidone (CC0 1.0); as well as Tierstimmenarchiv/Günter Tembrock (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Image: Matthias Appel via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Jessica Caldas is an artist living in Florida: “She was walking and moving before she really could communicate with us verbally, but she could move, and she could move fast, and she was strong, and she’s grabbing at my body all the time, and that was really intense for me because I started to feel like an animal.”
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); klankbeeld, RTB45, and benboncan (CC BY 3.0).
Image: American Museum of Natural History via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Kristen Mills is an artist living in Vermont: “It’s astounding how huge they are, and how elusive they are for how big they are. I’m sure I’ve walked by moose on the trail, and I can’t hear them or see them, and that to me is most fascinating.”
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron and treemangathering (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); juanlopz08, jakobthiesen, and nicstage (CC BY 3.0); as well as Tierstimmenarchiv/Karl-Heinz Frommolt (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Image ©[Iva]/Adobe Stock.
Sheida Soleimani is an artist living in Providence, R.I.: “I’m kind of drawing likenesses between human bodies and animal bodies. Animals can’t communicate for themselves, but oftentimes a lot of people can’t either.”
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); patchen and inchadney (CC BY 3.0); and Singing Insects of North American (SINA) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Ebitenyefa Baralaye is an artist living in Detroit: "There’s a certain kind of power in naming things and inviting others to understand things, but also a prerogative or an influence that could be seen as being sort of overriding identity."
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); digifish and benboncan (CC BY 3.0); and craigsmith (CC0 1.0). Image ©[sam]/Adobe Stock.
Devi Laskar is a writer living in Cupertino, California: "It was just so different. And I don’t think I would’ve become an artist or a writer if hadn’t been exposed to all these different thoughts and all these different people."
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); john9 (CC BY 3.0); ivolipa and chris-dagorne (CC0 1.0); as well as Tierstimmenarchiv/Winfried Krey (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Image by U.S. National Park Service/Neal Herbert via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Sandrine Schaefer is an artists living in Boston: “I’m always trying to be like, 'how can I be human and also be in community with my non-human neighbors?'”
Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); naturenotesuk, lupalenzuela, and klangfabrik (CC0 1.0); and Singing Insects of North American (SINA) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Acabashi (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.