Palmer Keen from Aural Archipelago joins Nick and Jacob to talk about how his DIY Ethnomusicological exploration of Indonesia came to fruition. We find out what it's like to blindly trust strangers on the internet and travel thousands of miles away to have a chance at capturing a music tradition he caught a glimpse of via youtube.

Aural Archipelago is an online repository for the musical sights and sounds of Indonesia, the most musically diverse country on the planet. Part digital archive, part blog, Aural Archipelago mixes field recording, video, photography, and in-depth articles compiled from years of travels across the archipelago. The project is the work of Palmer Keen, an American DIY ethnomusicologist based in Yogyakarta, together with a huge network of collaborators and musicians across Indonesia. With this project, the hope is to allow audiences (local and foreign) free access to music that is often difficult or impossible to hear otherwise.

All music is shared with permission of the artists featured. When performances are explicitly commissioned for documentation, artists are compensated appropriately.

Aural Archipelago's social media pages - Facebook and Instagram - can be followed at the small links below.

Palmer can be contacted at [email protected].

Old School FOS homie Rebecca Mahay joins Nick and Bryan on the show today to chat about underground music in her hometown of Leeds and in the UK, comical approaches to experimental music, her unexpected path to finding sonic absurdism, and how living with chronic illness has impacted the way she approaches performance.

Check out her tunes here:

https://wildrani.bandcamp.com/album/post-work-jams

TEASER: We talk about shooting the episode 'Onyx Ashanti Programs Himself' back in the summer of 2016, on the cusp of a global paradigm shift, when optimism and cynicism felt a bit more in balance.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Podcast about the Podcast. After we talked about Caveh on our Holiday Special last. month, and then Caveh listened to the episode, and then he talked about the mixed experience he had listening to us talk about him in his public diary later that week, we have finally completed the circle. Caveh joins us to talk about creating, funding, and navigating criticism of his unique brand of self-reflexive filmmaking.

Eric Lennartson uses a cutting-edge programming method and an old analog circuit-testing machine called an oscilloscope to create immersive sound and visual performances that get us thinking about the link between sound and sight, humans and machines.

ericlennartson.com

We decided to get together to record a couple hours of 100% banter. If you're looking for substance, please feel free to skip this one. There is nothing substantial here. Just Nick, Bryan, and Jacob talking about IBS, Caveh Zahedi, crashing our cars to certain types of music, xmas music that isn't explicitly about xmas, the anti-woke film fest, and most importantly a bunch of ZENCASTR TRASHING.

We go behind the scenes of a couple Far Off Sounds docs that were made abroad, solo, without the usual team. First up we go deep into Jacob's episode 'The Disappearing Bamboo Wind" shot in Vietnam, and the second is Nick's "Orkes Keroncong Tugu", shot in Indonesia. We discuss Eminem's new restaurant "Mom's Spaghetti", as well as Pho, garlic, and the domain-name black market.

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Jacob and Nick catch up on life, crypto, the Chaos Era, and "that face". It's a long one. Happy holidays.

Music: Ne Me Quitte Pas by Jacques Brel

Cherie Hu and Diana Gremore from Water and Music join FOS to talk about their Decentralized Autonomous Organization dedicated to music industry research and data collection.

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