Pink Noise

Sarah Elstran of The Nunnery joins to talk about the origin of Cyrus Song from the new album Floating Gardens. Her story details the chaotic circumstances of the birth of her first child, and how a melody she wrote during her pregnancy served to guide her child to health against all odds.

Voice of Saturn is the solo recording project of Travis Thatcher. His new album Gratitude is out now on Woodford Halse.

https://voiceofsaturn.bandcamp.com/album/wf-35-gratitude

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SKRT is a trio from Dayton, Ohio. I spoke with Asche and Micah about their new split 12" record with fellow Ohioans Lung and how it came together. Asche opened up about the lyrical themes in their music and finding a way to process difficult life experiences through writing.

Shane McCord and Mikey Powers have played music together since they were kids. Sham songs usually start as guitar duets and incorporate layers of vocals, piano, bowed strings, wind instruments and field recordings. We talked about their songwriting process and being inspired by music and nature. We also wax philosophical on the Turquoise State of Being.

Listen to the extended episode including a playlist of songs curated by Sham: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58JMiUs0ptvKYc1r7bq2ag?si=4a97b4e027ce44bc

Get Sham merch on Bandcamp: https://shamtunes.bandcamp.com/

Introducing guest playlists! Tomorrow's episode will be the first to include a playlist curated by featured musicians on Pink Noise. I'll use Spotify's playlist feature to create a seamless listening experience that begins with an episode of Pink Noise followed by music selected by my guest.

Follow Pink Noise on Spotify to get these extended episodes: https://open.spotify.com/user/2g1dyze3k3cas5v81bjjcffa3?si=7bbc5e17cdfc4a76

Lauren Haldeman is a poet and illustrator. We discuss her books Calenday and Instead of Dying and the process of grieving the murder of her brother Ryan. We also discuss pandemic life and her series of single-panel comics she began drawing during quarantine.

Lauren Haldeman's comics on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenhaldeman/

Links to Lauren's books of poetry: https://laurenhaldeman.com/

Dreamy music playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BpSQ4kTQ9Bc

I speak with Hicham Benhallam and Kim McMasters of the Richmond post-rock band Post Sixty Five. We discuss the life and death of Hicham's father, and how plans for a final visit and funeral in 2017 were disrupted by US efforts to enact a "muslim ban." The Post Sixty Five song Middle Child explores the grief and loss of losing a parent, and we talked about releasing the music to the world in 2020 when performing and gathering would not be possible.

On the first episode of the second season of Pink Noise, Chloë Ester discusses the traumatic events that inspired her debut release Dying All The Time. We begin our conversation by acknowledging the relentless chaos of 2020 and how it affected her plans for releasing her music. This interview contains explicit language and mentions self-harm, suicide and sexual assault.

Pink Noise returns for Season Two. Riding out the Great Pandemic in style.

Jordan Perry is a songwriter and guitarist who has been involved in many projects. He has recently released two albums of classical guitar compositions. I wanted to interview Jordan when I learned that he once worked as a guitar teacher at a school in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank of Palestine.

In this interview Jordan refers to his own process of creating music as a mode of inquiry. This mode of inquiry allows him to meditate on and explore systems and patterns that catch his attention. But his aim is more to explore and pose questions, rather than to seek resolution.

Jordan is also a host of a radio broadcast called World Turning, which airs in Charlottesville on WTJU 91.1 and WTJU.net

This episode of Pink Noise featured these tracks:

Crime Times from S/T by Jordan Perry

Jordan's Piece from Oudopia by Dimitri Mikelis

Witness Tree from Witness Tree by Jordan Perry

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