Brady Cranfield digs through the crates for the subtle ear worms and stacks up the wax to support our band camp artists.

Tip toeing around Covid-19, Elisa Ferrari sends us soundwalks from the city center of Brescia, in the north of Italy, where we audition the Phase 1 and 2 COVID-19 restrictions.

The first binaural recording was recorded on March 23, 2020, during the early phase of the lockdown, while second was recorded May 5 2020, the beginning of phase 2 which means that folks are allowed out but maintaining proper physical distance and wearing masks.

Bonus Off Brand Track:

* İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattır – Gaye Su Akyol

 

 

In this episode, Helena presents more scenes from literature with a bent towards sound, drawing this time from Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen.

First, Tyler James Nicol treats us to a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Bells’, which he reads wonderfully in the style of Vincent Price.

Next, Helena reads the conclusion of ‘Loss of Breath’ by the same author (and does her best to handle Poe’s nesting sentence clauses and the pompous diction of his narrator). ‘Loss of Breath’ sends up sensationalist horror and metaphysical navel-gazing, in an all-too-familiar case of ‘dude won’t shut up–even when dead!

And finally, from public domain recordings, we sample two chapters from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, which also pokes fun at scary tropes and formulas. In this passage, the protagonist’s imagination runs away with her, aided and abetted by the suggestive powers of sound. Chapter 20 is read by Asaf Bartov and Chapter 21 by Kristen McQuillin.

The next two installments of Story Vibes Only will feature literature with dystopian or utopian atmospheres, then works using sound to explore romance and attraction.

We’re kicking off the 4th Annual Slow Radio Broadcast this Earth Day 2020 on 13 radio stations. Tune in at the station nearest you, or via the stream.

For this podcast however you can enjoy a leap through the 24 hours with a condensed version featuring 2 minutes segments from each of the 24 hours of the complete broadcast.

Slow Radio Broadcast, Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Connect your everyday activities to the twenty-four-hour cycle of the wetland on participating radio stations or online, in sync with your local time.

Worldwide Internet Stream: wetlandproject.com/stream

Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Radio CITR 101.9 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Powell River, BC: Powell River Community Radio CJMP 90.1 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Smithers, BC: Smithers Community Radio CICK 93.9 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 4 pm to 8 pm 

Edmonton, AB: Edmonton Independent Radio CJSR 88.5 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Regina, SK: Regina Community Radio CJTR 91.3 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 3 pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to midnight 

London, ON: Radio Western CHRW 94.9 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 4 pm to 6 pm 

Toronto, ON: Ryerson University Radio CJRU 1280 AM

Wednesday, April 22, 1 am to 6 am, 1 pm to 1:30 pm and 9 pm to 11 pm 

Montréal, QC: Concordia University Radio CJLO 1690 AM

Wednesday, April 22, 2 pm to 7 pm 

Montréal, QC: McGill University Radio CKUT 90.3 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 11 am to 3 pm and 5 pm to 8 pm 

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Radio KALW 91.7 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Portland, OR: Scumbag Radio 1620 AM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Bend, OR: High Desert Community Radio KPOV 88.9 FM

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to 8 am and 1 pm to 5 pm 

Copenhagen, DK: The Lake Radio

Wednesday, April 22, 12 am to Thursday, April 23, 12 am 

Adrian Avendano returns to revisit Xavier Bellenger’s contribution to acoustic ecology, music ethnography, popular music and original output.

Track List:

* Xavier Bellenger – Jivaros – Ambiance de lagune à la tombée de la nuit

* Xavier Bellenger – Ashaninka – Flûtes de pan

* Xavier Bellenger – Kenas De Paratia

* Xavier Bellenger – Ashaninka – Le rhombe

* Xavier Bellenger – Ashaninka – Air d’arc musical (itsoncamitiri)

* Jean Michel Jarre – Zoolook –  Ethnicolor II

* Hatun-Ney – Le Grand Roseau

* Xavier Bellenger – Aguaruna – peke peke

* Xavier Bellenger – Jivaros – Salut shuar

* Xavier Bellenger – Jivaros – Un guerrier relate son expédition

Story Vibes Only! For her next few episodes of the Soundscape Show, Helena Krobath shares passages of literature where sound advances the story or is treated in interesting ways.

This time: don’t fear the darkness. Dostoevsky’s Underground Man on the pleasure of performative pain. Sonically driven moments of horror by Anna Kavan and Edgar Allan Poe. Reading by Kellen Jackson and Helena Krobath.

Brady Cranfield reads the obits (so you don’t have to?)

Ben W. measures visions of lost and the apocalypse against our current crisis.

Special guest Adrian Avendaño, presents a homage to the pioneering work of Xavier Bellenger (bio) music ethnographer, soundscape recorderist and founder the GREM (Group for Research and Study of Music) label.

Tracklist:

* Jean Michel Jarre – Revolution and Revolutions Update (excerpts)

* Ashaninka – La nuit: the night, near a lagoon invaded by amphibians, an Ashaninka plays a whistle on a wire: the brutal tension of the cord which is threaded a seed causes a characteristic hiss and at the same time a rhythm that evokes the step of a dancer.

* Ayar T’inkachi : a song dedicated to mother earth (Pachamama) Recording 1 from Lampa (Department of Puno – Southern Highlands of Peru) – Quechua speaking community playing Quenas and drums.

* Daniel Zamalloa & Kike Pinto • SURGE • Violín Vernacular del Perú

* GAMA Diginotator – Example Recording: Example of the types of recording done by the research Group (GAMA)

* Katajjaq from Hudson Bay*

* Two Katajjaq-Baffin Land-Ungava Bay*

* Shaman song (Ungava Bay)*

* Tono Del Condor: From Ayarachi & Chiriguano PERU: the first traditional sound/music album released on CD. UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World 1981

* Jivaros – Hi Shuar: Dialogue of a visitor coming for the first time from a neighboring camp who has suffered a calamity or aggression, after declining his identity, he expresses his peaceful intentions, gives the lastest news and seeks help.

* Poorly documented

 

Additional Resources:

* Recent Mix Cloud Tribute to Xavier Bellenger

* Vanessa Valencia Ramos, contemporary practitioner (CPR.org.ar Radio Cuarentenaaa, GRISPerú, Instagram )

 

 

Brady Cranfield enjoys Bruce’s memory, as you shout out loud “Pauline Oliveros”. It’s good to know you have friends you can trust especially those with long memories or reverberations as the case may be.

Track List

* Collocutor – Continuations – Lead by Tamar Osborn (baritone sax, flute)

* We Become Giants – We Become Giants  – Ida Toninato

* Those Among Us – Rose Golden Doors Ways – Pulled By Magnets includes Seb Rochford of Suns of Kemet

* Parallel Darks Part 3 – Werner Dafeldecker (Room 40)

* Current Harmonics – Jasmine Guffond