Shows
Sonic Earth ExpeditionsSonic Thinking with Bruce OdlandJoining Mary Beth this time is Bruce Odland, a sonic thinker, creator and composer. Bruce creates sound installations in collaboration with Sam Auinger that transform the sounds of cities into music. He’s the founder of the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Colorado and most recently, he collaborated with renowned actor and playwright Wallace Shawn to reinvent two of his plays as a podcast.
http://bruceodland.net/
2022-01-0158 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsA Field Day For HamsMary Beth visits the St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club on Field Day, a nationwide training exercise for emergency communications. It's also a contest, hosted by the American Radio Relay League. We explore the sounds of radio and even learn a little Morse code.
The St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club website: https://www.sparc-club.org/
Music from the episode can be purchased at https://cosmicpiano.bandcamp.com/
2022-01-0133 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsWelcome to Sonic Earth ExpeditionsIn this podcast, we'll explore the sonic environments of our planet. When we listen with attention to the sounds around us—those in nature and also the ones humans create, we can unlock a deeper understanding of our world. These sounds tell us stories…not just about themselves, but also about us.
Hosted and curated by Mary Beth Toole, each episode is a unique sonic experience with some of the great sonic thinkers of our time and really cool soundscapes. Better living through listening.
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Sonic Earth ExpeditionsSilvia Nakkach, Sonic ExplorerSilvia Nakkach is a Grammy-nominated composer, cutting edge musical artist and vocalist. She is the founder and artistic director of the international Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice, dedicated to preserving sacred musical traditions, and the vocal arts.
Silvia is a sonic explorer who takes listening to a whole other dimension. She talks with Mary Beth about her music and experiences and her ideas about deep listening.
You can find out more about her work at voxmundiproject.com
2021-04-231h 09Sonic Earth ExpeditionsGlen Velez: Founder of the Modern Frame Drum MovementGlen Velez, legendary percussionist, composer, innovator and educator talks with Mary Beth about his experiences discovering and revitalizing the frame drum.
Glen is world-renowned for his work on the frame drum—a four-time Grammy winner, he incorporated his classical training and his studies from various drum cultures, to create his own style of drumming and teaching.
Glen has played with Steve Reich, Paul Winter, Suzanne Vega, and Pat Metheny to name just a few. He currently collaborates with virtuoso rhythmic vocalist Loire Cotler, to whom he is married.
Glen's influence cannot be overstated—His...
2021-04-0954 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsHula Halau: Revitalizing Hawaiian LanguageKekoa and Pele Harman join Mary Beth to discuss their work teaching Hawaiian language and hula and how speaking the language of their ancestors connects them to the past, to the land and to their children. They're part of a movement to revitalize Hawaiian language, which is one of the languages considered by UNESCO to be critically endangered.
Kekoa and Pele can be reached via the school's email address: halauikaleoola@gmail.com
2021-03-261h 24Sonic Earth ExpeditionsSonic Tea and Zen with Wu DeWu De joins Mary Beth to talk about tea…how infusing water with the leaves of camellia sinensis can be a ritual of reverence and mindfulness and how it can connect us to our natural environment.
Wu De is the Zen name of Aaron Fisher, a philosopher and writer from Ohio, now based in Taiwan, who has dedicated his life to the study of Zen and tea. He’s the founder of the Global Tea Hut, a community of tea enthusiasts and he’s the author of the book The Way of Tea.
2021-03-1150 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsEar Training with Lisa RainsongMary Beth is joined by Lisa Rainsong, a composer, naturalist and educator to discuss ear training, both in the context of music and in nature. Lisa is on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music and is also a certified naturalist, who records the sounds of nature.
Lisa's blog:
http://listeninginnature.blogspot.com/
Her singing insect field guide page:
http://listeningtoinsects.com/
2021-02-2640 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsOcean of Sound feat. Dr. Chris ClarkMary Beth talks with Dr. Christopher Clark about our sonic seas and the issue of ocean noise pollution. He's the former director of the bioacoustics research program at Cornell University and a faculty member in the department of neurobiology and behavior. Dr. Clark has spent his career raising awareness about the noise that humans are adding to the symphony in the ocean.
Dr. Clark's bio page: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/christopher-clark/
We discuss this Ted talk during the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHW77blulg
2021-02-1255 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsSong of the WolfMaggie Howell, biologist and Executive Director of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, NY, joins Mary Beth to talk about a place where the song of the wolf is being restored and preserved.
https://nywolf.org/
2021-01-2849 minSonic Earth ExpeditionsThe Quest for Quiet PlacesGordon Hempton and Matt Mikkelsen from Quiet Parks International talk with Mary Beth about meaning of quiet and why the world needs more quiet places.
Gordon Hempton is the co-founder of Quiet Parks International, a non-profit organization committed to the preservation of quiet places. He’s recorded natural soundscapes around the world; his work has been used in film and documentaries and he is the author of the book One Square Inch of Silence.
Matt Mikkelsen is a Sound recordist and documentary filmmaker and the executive director of Wilderness Quiet Parks at Quiet Parks international.
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