The Floating World

The Floating World

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The Floating World episodes

  • Episode 7: In the dream of the sleeping city (feat. Jo Ho)

    "They took me into a room. In it they put a city. They said I was a dream dreamed by the city. I said I don't believe you, so they cut my hand open - and out poured every street I grew up on, every parked car. So I said please give me back my wallet, I'd like to go home."

    Sounds submitted by Grace Boey, Joo Yeon Lim and Tessa Ho, as well as anonymous submissions for Jo Ho's work 'Leaving Notes'.

    Jo Ho is an artist based in Singapore. You can find more information at j-o-h-o.com.

    26 min
  • Episode 6: A Distance Across Water
    We ask a variety of people about their first memory of water. We disperse our bodies across the transmogritive psycho-histories of water crossings. Ada gets very sad. Somewhere, there is a choir...
    "Imaginary Continent 8A: Step one. Drink a glass of water every morning. Step two. Tell nobody..."
    Featuring sounds from:
    Ila
    John Morrison
    Savan DePaul
    Oshun
    Aurora Josephson
    Cher / XUE
    Julia
    Justin Adhiyatma
    Derrick Ng
    Aqilah
    Jun Han
    Rachel MacDonald
    Hayden Wright
    Magus Monk
    Em Downing
    Nick Duba
    27 min
  • Episode 5: Ghosts of Mars (feat. M Téllez)
    On Ep. 5, some folks leave for Mars under dubious circumstances - projecting the insidious logic of colonialism onto our (very hypothetical) spaceward expansion, M Téllez of Metropolarity weaves a tale of subjugation, coercion, and little resistances - amid neighbourhood walks, cyborg rhythms, and a strange goodbye from an old caretaker.
    You can find out about M Téllez at their website, www.cyborgmemoirs.com
    Submissions from:
    John Morrison
    Rodnie King
    Cybee Bloss
    Elissa Fredeen
    Rachel MacDonald
    compiled, edited and composed by Ada Adhiyatma / madam data
    'little feather' composed and performed by Ada Adhiyatma
    if you'd like to support and maintain The Floating World, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/thefloatingworldpodcast
    21 min
  • Episode 4: Jazz for Machines
    In episode 4, we wander the streets at night, carrying fantasies of robots, the strange quantum emissions of cars and the floating miasma of radio signals.
    Contributors:
    Erika Oba
    John Morrison
    Rachel MacDonald
    George Korein
    Rodnie King
    Bennett Kuhn
    23 min
  • Episode 3: before you were that sun (feat. Alex Smith)
    This time on the Floating World: Philadelphia author, musician and visual artist Alex Smith imagines a prismatic, queer, black future amid the rupture of techno, (more) train stations, an encounter with a pothole, radio static and otherwordly birdsong.
    Story / poetry by Alex Smith alexoteric.com (twitter: @alexoteric)
    backup story by Ada A.
    sounds submitted by savan depaul, lucy dougherty & jessie h, erika oba, tamar dart, leo suarez, rebecca muczynski, and casey dougherty.
    Mixed, edited and composed by Ada Adhiyatma (twitter & IG: @madamdata)
    As of now, this work is mostly uncompensated labor! If you'd like to contribute to the imagining of new worlds (and you should) consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/thefloatingworldpodcast
    30 min
  • Episode 2: Chrome Afterworld (feat. Jess Hicks, Rodnie King)
    This week on the Floating World: Dusty chrome afterworlds. Train stations. Tape segmented and cut according to the arrangements of the celestial bodies.
    Co-produced by Madam Data and Jess Hicks.
    This episode's submissions by:
    Alex Smith, Em Downing, Chase Barnes, Jess Hicks, Travis Baka, Kaori Suzuki, Madam Data
    Story Text written and recorded by Rodnie King
    29 min

About The Floating World

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The Floating World is a podcast of experimental sound and storytelling. Music in the sense of vacuum cleaners and power lines, a pulsating mechanical unconsciousness. It is sound to listen to while driving, walking through the city or taking the subway, while falling asleep at 3am to construction outside, when you need to be more than your body.