Transnatural Perspectives Podcast

Today we begin our series on ‘The Nature of Sound’. In this series we’ll be talking with people who are working at the intersection of sounds and the natural environment. Who better to start that with than globetrotting. multi-instrumentalist Joshua Sam Miller? Joshua is a world recording artist, composer and producer on a mission to connect people to the natural world through sound. Joshua travels the world collecting sounds from nature and combining them with musical traditions from all corners of the earth - all culminating in his live a remote multi-media experiences that provide a place for listeners to relax and embody sound. Joshua is here to talk to us about recording his latest album, Sounds of The Ocean, which is to be released 08 June 2022 and can be found at www.soundsoftheocean.com.  Original music for this episode is titled 'Greetings' off the new album Sounds of The Ocean by Joshua Sam Miller. You can find info on Joshua's music, podcasts, live events and other work at: https://www.joshuasammiller.com/ & https://www.soundsoftheocean.com/ Please Consider supporting The Transnatural Perspectives Podcast by leaving a episode based donation, become a monthly sponsor or share any questions or ideas with us @ www.transnaturalpod.com  Follow on @Transnatualpod on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram  TIMESTAMPS (+/- 30 seconds accuracy) 00:03:20 Introducing Joshua Sam Miller 00:04:057 Choosing Instruments to compliment what it sounds like underwater 00:05:55 Joshua’s Musical and Nature-Based Origins 00:08:00 Leaving and Returning to Music 00:09:45 Connecting with Nature in a New Way 00:15:00 Accepting and Integrating Technology, Nature and Music 00:18:50 Making Sounds of the Ocean 00:30:30 The Live Concert Experience 00:36:40 Bringing the Ocean Experience and Working with Local Communities 00:41:55 The Global Audience Response & The Call to Costa Rica 00:48:10 New Album, World Oceans Day at the UN, & The Future 00:52:40 The Embodied Sounds Podcast 00:54:20 Audience Question: Most Used Instruments? 00:58:10 Audience Question: Working with Sounds from Other Landscapes? 00:59:50 Audience Question: Increased Accessibility via Virtual Reality (VR) Experience? 01:05:30 Where to connect with Joshua and Sounds of the Ocean 00:07:35 Closing Thoughts 01:09:35 Song: ‘’Greetings’’ from Sounds of the Ocean by Joshua Sam Miller (Released: 08 June 2022)

Whitney Washington is an Adventure Filmmaker, Storyteller and Long Distance Cyclist. I first came across Whitney’s work via Instagram in the summer of 2021. I along with many others watched for months as Whitney traveled by bike across the United States. Via social media, Whitney weaves followers an inspirational narrative tale of self-exploration while refurbishing a childhood bike and riding it 3000 miles across the North American continent with minimal previous biking or camping experience. Our conversation cover the trials, tribulations and joys of solo bike-packing and how Recapturing one’s life can mean challenging one’s nightmares to live out one’s dreams. Please LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE to this Podcast. For more info check out Whitney's Instagram (@recapturinglife) or website (https://beacons.ai/recapturinglife) Consider leaving a tip, donation or sponsorship for this episode or others @ www.transnaturalpod.com Follow on @Transnatualpod on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / Youtube/  Medium. TIMESTAMPS (+/- 30 seconds accuracy) 00:00:00 Introduction: Opening Perspectives, Whitney Washington, Sponsorship Campaign 00:06:45 North Florida and Urban Sprawl, Whitney’s nature-based upbringing: Allowing myself to tell my own story, From corporate media to Cycling across the United States 00:15:15 Celebrating Movement, Recapturing Life 00:20:20 Riding Rail trails 00:25:28 Learning by Doing: Be Prepared and Improvise along the way 00:30:48 A journey of Wellness and Self Care, challenges and fears 00:35:00 Input from friends and Family, The appeal of the Long Journey 00:42:30 The kindness of strangers and meeting new friends 00:47:22 Making Nature Connections along the way 00:52:45 Overcoming tough times on the road: IOWA is NOT FLAT 00:56:30 Biking into the Future! Alaska to Argentina! 00:59:30 Where to stay up to date with Whitney’s work and journey 01:00:30 Recapturing Life: Confronting the ‘Nightmare’ 01:02:00 Closing Perspectives SFX: freesound.org Music: ''Future'' by Fazerklang

In this episode we discuss the impact of digital mobile technology on Outdoor Education with Cultural Anthropologist Imre van Kraalingen. Imre's PhD research, via the Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Life Studies (Friluftsliv) at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, aims to develop accounts of how mobile technologies form a part of contemporary teaching and learning experiences in higher outdoor education in Norway.  Also, hear some comparative insights about winter outdoor life in Florida and Norway and we discuss a listener's questions about integrating the outdoors into daily lessons. All that and a whole lot more! Please sens you questions & comments! Please share, subscribe, support and enjoy! Thanks for listening!

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Learn more about Imre's work here: https://www.nih.no/en/about/employees/imre-van-kraalingen/

Read Pathways to learn more about Outdoor Education and activities here: https://www.coeo.org/pathways-journal/

Timestamps:

00:00:50 Opening thoughts: Show updates, Comparative reflections on Winter in Florida & Norway

00:11:40 Imre van Kraalingen: Cultural Anthropologist, Research and International Super Volunteer

00:16:10 PhD Research in Outdoor Education with Adults

00:19:50 Connections & Controversy: Norwegian Outdoor Culture and Digital Technology

00:26:45 Understanding the nuances of technology use in Outdoor Education

00:36:10 Intentionality: the opportunity to adapt mobile technology to outdoor pedagogy

00:44:50 The accessibility gap to mobile tech around the world and it’s relevance

00:46:25 ‘’The Wall’’ of mobile tech as a classic challenge that Outdoor Ed is uniquely prepared for

00:49:00 Adaptability and Intentional use: the pedagogical use of tech in Outdoor Education

00:57:20 Further Research: Impact of Technology on Outdoor Experiences and International Online Outdoor Studies Forum

01:02:00 Reflections, Listener Question: How to get my student in touch with nature more regularly, Place Based Mindset, Adventure Around the Corner and more

Music Credit: 'Future' by Fazerklang

Karl Nesbitt has spent his career working in Parks and Recreation management in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Karl serves on the World Urban Parks Cemeteries committee and he has lead a number of initiative to transition cemeteries into recreational spaces, particularly in rural communities, whilst collaborating with the indigenous Maori community and other religious and cultural groups to create more equitable and accessible outdoor recreations spaces. Please Enjoy! Share! Send us your thoughts!

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Plus check out my new song ‘Home Burial’, from my solo musical project BoTik. The album addresses, amongst other topics, existential environmental issues.  For more info and the link to listen, visit Listen to the whole album, ''Songs At The End of the World'', available at www.botikmusic.com 

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:59 Podcast updates, Lithuania, New Music & introducing our guest, Parks and Recreation Cemetery specialist Karl Nesbitt

00:08:35 Landscape in the Land of the long white cloud, Aotearoa/New Zealand

00:11:50 Settler/Indigenous co-governance and the influence of Indigenous knowledge’s on Politics, Education and land management

00:18:30 Transitioning cemeteries into recreation: Cultural Past, present & future in Aotearoa/New Zealand

00:25:45 Cemetery as a consistent place of peace and greenspace around the world

00:35:25 Different perspectives on death

Current examples of cemeteries being (re)designed as recreational areas

Taboos and Opposition to Cemeteries as a recreational spaces

Cemeteries as highly accessible places for nature connection and play

00:41:30 Future of Cemeteries is in welcoming transition and respecting cultures

00:43:49 Closing Reflections

00:50:40 New Song: 'Home Burial' by BoTik

Graham Ellis-Smith has provided services in a range of areas concerning Aboriginal people, culture and economic development for over 25 years. Graham's work has focused on employment and enterprise development, intercultural and environmental education (2 Way), access to and management of land; and culturally aligned and appropriate healing processes for physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. In this episode we dig deep into Graham's life and experience perspectives on indigeneity, spirituality and universality throughout all aspects of his work.

Plus check out my new song ‘Midnight Sun’, from my solo musical project BoTik. This is the newest single from the album ''Songs At The End of the World'' coming out October 2021. The album addresses, amongst other topics, existential environmental issues.  For more info and the link to listen, visit linktr.ee/BoTik

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00:00:00 Welcome Back! Season 2!New Music!

00:05:00 Getting to know Graham and his local landscape

00:10:00 An Authentic Outdoor Education:Growing up with the Australian Bush as Playground

00:19:10 Connection consciousness, Indigeneity & Spirituality

00:27:30 Fundamental truths expressed through nature & shared indigenous origins

00:31:28 The Life Cycle: parallels across peoples and outdoor programs

00:42:30 Aboriginal Elders and Quantum Physics

00:43:45 Facilitating open spaces to talk about ‘strange’, ‘supernatural’ and otherwise spiritual experiences

00:50:20 Graham’s introduction into Aborigianal society

00:55:32 Acceptance and Responsibility to the land

00:57:40 Why have we forgotten about out connections with nature

01:03:32 How are we remembering who we are?

01:06:00 Outdoor Programs :‘Slowing down’ & being ‘’present’’ into

01:15:00 Mindfulness: Negotiating our Past and future while remaining in the present

01:22:00 Aboriginal Teachers on destroying the earth, destroying ourselves

01:24:52 Re(Creation): What are we re-creating when engaging in recreation?

01:34:00 Awareness: Falling asleep Collectively, Waking up individually

01:36:45 Take the opportunity to provide triggers, sew seeds, and build bridges

01:39:50 Closing Reflections

01:43:00 Song: “Midnight Sun” by BoTik

In this new episode we hear from Artist and Researcher Ernie Roby-Tomic  in the wake of his recently released, online exhibition *Exposing Coal  Seams and Appalachian Fatalism with Digital Apparatuses* published in  the (online) Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Ernie Roby-Tomic is a  multimedia artist and researcher who uses, among many mediums and  methods, music, poetry, archival research, video game design, GIS and 3D  printing via the paradigms of Electracy and Verticality to tell the  stories of resource extraction of rural coal country culture in West  Virginia in the United states.    

The view the exhibit visit: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/748182/903553/3503/8621   

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Music by Fazerklang SFX: freesounds.org   

TIMESTAMPS:  

00:00:00 Introduction (Listen! Share! Subscribe! Donate! Enjoy!) 

00:05:00 All about balkan brass music and the Guca festival in Serbia 

00:10:00 How we know each others, Florida and The Moonbus Fesitval 

00:15.:00 Ernie's Art, Sleep Science and Labor movements in Late Capitalist Society 

00:19:15 Reclamation: Exhibition on Resource extraction culture in Appalachia 

00:24:00 Growing up in an Appalachian Coal mining culture 

00:26:00 History of the Appalachian mountains and Coal mining 

00:29:30 Politicization of the Coal Industry 

00:36:20 Influence of Black Lung Disease and Japanese Video Games 

00:44:20 Mining for Data recreating coal mining maps 

00:56:00 Theory of Electracy, Heuristics & Talking through the bodies of miners 

01:08:45 Walking us through the Exhibition Landscape 

01:18:00 Redneck activism and Politics role in Coal Country 

01:28:00 The Green Bank Observatory: Themes of paradox and verticality at the intersection of environment, society and industry. 

01:34:45 Connection and reclamation through technology and familial relations 

01:37:45 Appalachian Fatalism: The coal cycle, Disaster Ballads and Feminist Critique  

01:55:00 Energy Extraction: Performance Project on the Sago Mine disaster, Doom Tubas and Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6j3y84_0g&t=256s 

02:08:00 Are you making Electracy? 

02:11:00 Final Reflections