Perfume on the Radio

In episode 15 of Perfume on the Radio we explore some great unknowns. Three artists and one poet join us to discuss their work with places that we'll never truly know: outer space, the deep ocean, the human mind.

GUESTS
Audra Wolowiec - website
Helga Griffiths - website
Carrie Paterson - website
Poems by Donna Lipowitz - website

Songs by Emmitt James - website
Hosted by Saskia Wilson-Brown

Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction for lookout.fm. Our theme music was composed by Emmitt James, Maxwell Williams and Darian Zahedi. 

SONGS:

Discovery - STS-26 Liftoff 
Courtesy of NASA, public domain 

Discovery STS-131: Sound of Launch 
Courtesy of NASA, public domain 

First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars (Feb. 2021) 
Courtesy of NASA, public domain 

Gystav Holst I. Mars, the Bringer of War Performed by USAF Heritage of America Band 
Courtesy of Musopen.org 

Gystav Holst II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace Performed by USAF Heritage of America Band  
Courtesy of Musopen.org 

tvilgiat sounds-from-the-atlantic-rainforest (CC0) 
Courtesy of Freesound.org

And!
'Perfume on the Radio' theme song
by Emmitt James

'Moonrise' 
by Darian Zahedi 

Other music
by Maxwell Williams

In this episode, guest host Minetta Rogers creates a meditation on scent and the postal system: from scratch and sniff stamps to shipping mishaps, mailed expressions of  longing and nostalgia, delivery failures and post office robberies, all the frustrations and endeavors of getting a letter from point A to point B.

GUESTS
Jas Brooks (Academic)
Regina Mamou and Lara Salmon from Research for the Bermuda Triangle (Artists)
Emmitt James (Musician)
Donna Lipowitz (Perfumer)
Hosted by Minetta Rogers (the Institute for Art and Olfaction)

CREDITS
Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction for lookout.fm. Our theme music was composed by Maxwell Williams and Darian Zahedi. 

SONGS
'Smell Good Mail' by Emmitt James
'Morse Code Mail' by Emmitt James
Both songs commissioned for this episode.

'Moonrise' by Darian Zahedi
Perfume on the Radio theme music by Maxwell Williams

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science” said Einstein. And this week we ask ourselves: what lies on the fringes of human awareness? What do we miss when we focus only on the obvious? This week’s episode explores practices, stories and experiences that lie in the outer limits of human perception, from trance states to witchcraft, from hauntings to abductions to sensorial trickery.  

With:
Jeanette Andrews, Magician
Dr. JW Dotson, Uncanny Scents
Brooklyn Goddess Kay, The Goddess Way by BGK
Dr. David Shorter, Academic
Richard Carradine, Writer, founder of Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles
Host: Saskia WIlson-Brown

CREDITS
Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction for lookout.fm. Our theme music was composed by Maxwell Williams and Darian Zahedi. 

 Songs featured: Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - IV. In the Hall Of The Mountain King, Edvard Grieg (Musopen.com); Evil Minded Blues, Virginia Liston (http://www.openmusicarchive.org); Mysterious Lights, Bryan Teoh (https://freepd.com); Satin Danger, Kevin MacLeod (freepd.com); Arpent, Kevin MacLeod, (freepd.com)

In episode 12 of Perfume on the Radio, perfumer, writer and artist John Biebel joins us as guest host. Much creative dialog focuses on the cross section of senses, or where sensibilities meet, inform, and guide each other. Such is the case when sound interacts with smell. Join us as John takes us through his evolving relationship with sound and how it relates to the generative process of making perfumes.

Host: John Biebel (januaryscentproject.com)

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

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CREDITS

Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams, with additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger. 

All of the incidental sounds and more "modern" sounding compositions composed/recorded by John Biebel for Ichigatsu.

Songs and radio excerpts used under Fair Use policy.

The sun and the moon, the rain and ocean, the rose and the jasmine: these are just some examples of the phenomenal bounty that nature provides. In this episode we explore what our planet offers us, and how we can respectfully make use of it in perfumery.

GUESTS
Simon Constantine (ånd Fragrance)
Mandy Aftel (Aftelier Perfumes, the Aftel Archive for Curious Scents)

With contributions from members of the Perfume Lover's Writing Club
Donna Lipowitz (Lipowitz Smells)
Virginia Riley (perfumer)
Sara Rashkin (writer)

Host: Saskia Wilson-Brown

ABOUT
Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger and Darian Zahedi. 

Music list:
Moonrise by Darian Zahedi
Mazurka in b Flat Major, by Frederic Chopin (musopen.org)
Arabesque No. 1. Andantino con moto, by Claude Debussy (musopen.org )
Symphony No.3 in D major - IV. Scherzo, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (musopen.org)
Sounds From the Atlantic Rainforest by Tvilgiat (freesound.com))

Independent Perfumer and smell enthusiast Heather Cvar joins us as a guest host on this week's episode. Sniffing out of the inner working/ biological side of how we use olfaction for things other than just perfume; from a lover’s underarm, to bees using smell harmony in their busy hives and dogs  trained to find human remains.

GUESTS
Tega Brain (artist, tegabrain.com)
Cat Warren (writer, dog trainer, catwarren.com)
Josh Markvan (beekeeper)
Hosted by Heather Cvar (Cvaria Perfume)

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger and Darian Zahedi. 

Song/Sound list:
Soft Neighborhood Sounds, by Chris Schum (Freesound.org)
Arabesque No. 1, by Claude Debussy
Moonrise, by Darian Zahedi
Patrick, by Darian Zahedi

How do music and scent interrelate? In this episode, we team up with Dana El Masri (On the Nose podcast) to explore facets of musical thinking and the synesthetic connections between smelling and hearing. 

GUESTS
Dana el Masri (Jazmin Saraï)
Peter De Cupere (artist)
Yo-Yo Fearless (rap icon)
Heather d'Angelo (Carta Fragrances)
Chavalia Mwamba (Pink MahogHany Fragrances)
Kaya Sorhaindo (Folie A Plusieurs)

Hosted by Dana el Masri (On the Nose Podcast) and Saskia Wilson-Brown (The Institute for Art and Olfaction)

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger.

Music list:
Soft Neighborhood Sounds, by Chris Schum (freesound.org)
Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, by Robert Schumman (musopen.org)
B-Sides, by Karen Dwyer (openmusicarchive.org / (cc) by-sa 4.0)
The Wagoners Lad, by Karen Dwyer (openmusicarchive.org / (cc) by-sa 4.0)

This episode explores concepts of masculinity in scent. And by masculinity, we mean all facets of the gender identification. 

GUESTS
Joshua Smith (Libertine)
Miles Regis (Artist)
Tom Blunt (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab)
Billie Stimpson (Pink Manor Decant Club)
Ömer İpekçi (Pekji Perfumes)
Alia Raza (Régime des Fleurs)
Chavalia Mwamba (Pink MahogHany Fragrances)
Hosted by Saskia Wilson-Brown (The Institute for Art and Olfaction)

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger.

Music list:
Valses nobles et sentimentales, by Maurice Ravel (thanks to musopen.org)
Miroirs - I. Noctuelles, by Maurice Ravel (thanks to musopen.org)
Waiting For A Train, by Jimmy Rodgers (openmusicarchive.org / Public Domain)
55, by Beatrice Dillon (openmusicarchive.org / (cc) by-sa 4.0)
The Wagoners Lad, by Karen Gwyer (openmusicarchive.org / (cc) by-sa 4.0)
The Brilliant and the Dark, by Karen Gwyer (openmusicarchive.org / (cc) by-sa 4.0)

In this episode of Perfume on the Radio, we give ourselves license to imagine the most fearsome, entrancing, magical and aromatic beings. Join us to learn all about some fantastical beasts, and meet the people who smell them.

GUESTS
Antonio Gardoni (Bogue Profumo)
Bayyana Davis (IFF)
Dr. J.W. Dotson (Uncanny Scents)
Lakenda Wallace (Modern Peasant Beauty)
Spyros Drosopoulos (Baruti)
Boris Raux (artist)
Jessica Murphy (Perfume Professor)
Hosted by Saskia WIlson-Brown (The Institute for Art and Olfaction)


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ABOUT
Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com

CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger. 

Nordur, by Alexander Nakarada (https://freepd.com/world.php)
Gavotte, by Jean-Baptiste Lully (https://musopen.org/music/7490-gavotte/)
Le Carnaval des Animaux, Aquarium, by Camille Saint-Saëns, Performed by Markus Staab (https://musopen.org/music/1454-the-carnival-of-the-animals/)
Le Carnaval des Animaux, Fossils, by Camille Saint-Saëns, Performed by Seattle Youth Orchestra (https://musopen.org/music/1454-the-carnival-of-the-animals/)
Blood Eagle, by Alexander Nakarada (courtesy of freepd.com)
Eerie Ambience, by Bradovic (https://freesound.org/people/Bradovic/sounds/171992/)
Falling Leaves in Autumn Forest, by Mjeno (https://freesound.org/people/Mjeno/sounds/405139/)
Going on a forest road gravel and grass, by straget (https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/411206/)
Chicken Single Alarm Call, by Rudmer_Rotteveel (https://freesound.org/people/Rudmer_Rotteveel/sounds/316920/)
Cackle, by RavenBlueFeather (https://freesound.org/people/RavenBlueFeather/sounds/385854/)

In episode 6 of Perfume on the Radio, we welcome iconic perfume pioneer Sissel Tolaas for a deep dive into her practice.

With
Sissel Tolaas (artist)
Saskia Wilson-Brown (host)

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com


CREDITS
Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams. Additional music composed by Stephen Rimlinger. 

Piano Sonata no. 11, K. 331, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (thanks to MusOpen)
Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a Figured Bass by Tomaso Albinoni, Remo Giazotto  (thanks to MusOpen)
Blood Eagle, by Alexander Nakarada (hanks to Free Public Domain Music: https://freepd.com/world.php)