The GABA Podcast started as a response the Pandemic. Meditative soundcapes designed to instil a sense of calm amidst the velocity of modern life. It was therapy for me in a kinda poetic, whimsical and philosophical sense. The show ran for 5 years and covered a period of extraordinary change in my life and the world. There are over 60 episodes available to subscribe to in the Archive, over 10 hours of unconventional meditations. Please note access to the Archive is only available in Spotify.

love&kindness and pineapple kimchi, that's what it's all about ❤️🙏🏼.

A preview chapter of my debut audiobook How To Bliss.

Now available to buy at all good audiobook stores.

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love&kindness, that's what it's all about.

Practice of Home is a spoken-word reflection on belonging, care, and the quiet labour of creating somewhere safe to rest.

A meditation on home as a practice, not a place.

Things That Can Be Lost is a spoken-word piece about love, absence, and the quiet fear of losing what makes us human.

Using the story of falling in love with a tree — and living with its sudden disappearance — this episode reflects on grief, presence, and the unease many of us feel in an age of machines, optimisation, and thinning attention.

Set against a piano-led, orchestral soundbed, it moves from melancholy toward a gentler conviction: that love was never meant to be efficient, and care was never meant to scale.

This episode is part of an ongoing audio practice exploring language, sound, and what it means to remain human in a world that keeps asking us to move faster.

Not Everywhere Else at Once is a spoken-word piece about doomscrolling, attention, and the pull of constant elsewhere.

An urban meditation on overload, presence, and the moment the body interrupts the feed.

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Greenland is a spoken-word piece set to an original piano and string score.

It reflects on ownership, power, and the quiet mistake of believing the world is something that can be claimed.

The music and voice were created through an experimental process using generative tools, guided and shaped by human intention.

Nothing here is rushed.
Nothing here is for sale.

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On Being Understood is the first episode of The GABA Podcast — a quiet reflection on language, meaning, and listening.

Quietly supported by Agent Page, a project concerned with how people and organisations are interpreted by machines.

A present to myself, its true significance wrapped in tendrils of fading awe and wonder. My vintage Moomin clock forlornly tells me it's my birthday. I have reached my half century of fairy tales and gritty reboots.

Reaching my half century seems a good time to reflect on gaba and this will be the last episode of the podcast as I embark on new adventures in sound and fiction. Thank you to all who have championed and reviewed the show 🙏🏼.

If you have found solace in 5 years of sleep tales and soundscapes and over 300 episodes, you can show your support by making a donation of your choice at gaba.life.

What follows is a somewhat kitsch, somewhat trippy, hopefully uplifting soundscape of memories of the last half century.

Please do follow me on Instagram @adammaxwellmartin where I hope to be more Reel and Meme’y.

love&kindness, that’s what it’s all about.

George Clooney run we pray,

Let Biden bide his twilight daze.

George Clooney for President I say,

Cos kicking Trump’s ass is the only way.

George Clooney come what may,

You gotta run and save the day.

A meditation on Midsummer.

gaba will return in the Autumn - if you have enjoyed this Spring series please consider leaving a donation at ⁠gaba.life⁠.

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Featuring the voices of J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien and Brené Brown with samples courtesy of The Arts Celebration Choir, Tony Ann and Alex Johansson.

gaba will return in the Autumn - if you have enjoyed this Spring series please consider leaving a donation at gaba.life.