Today’s magical guest is Jordan Rannells, the technical editor for the Prancing Pony Podcast and the brains behind A Long Expected Soundscape. Jordan’s wizardry with soundscapes provides an immersive audio experience to listen to alongside the Lord of the Rings books. He’s also produced a podcast called The Music of Middle Earth in which he analyzed Howard Shore’s score to the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films. As for his teaching, Jordan is a professor of Music Industry Arts at Algonquin College in Ontario. He also teaches guitar, piano, and drums.
I first had the pleasure of chatting with Jordan in 2020 after the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot. He and the Friends of Mr Underhill Smial of the Tolkien Society had produced a beautiful soundscape audio project of "The Council of Elrond" and I wanted to learn more about soundscape projects and how to bring that creative energy into the classroom.
In this conversation, Jordan and I chat about the details that go into a soundscape project, guiding students to think outside the box, and how music, technology, and literature intersect.
If you would like to be involved in Jordan's future Soundscape projects, you can learn more at https://jordanrannells.com/soundscapes, or you can follow the Soundscape on Twitter @LOTRSoundscape
