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conscient podcastworld listening day 2024 - listening to the weave of timeWorld Listening Day takes place every year on July 18, which is also Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer’s birthday. The day is organized by the World Listening Project and is dedicated to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies, and cultures through the practice of listening.I have brought excerpts from 7 episodes from the 5th season of my conscient podcast that relate to the theme of the 2024 edition: ‘listening to the weave of time’. e157 sonic research group (part 1)Hildegard WesterkampThe most interesting part to me is to discover what we're no...
2024-07-1822 min
conscient podcaste175 sabine breitsameter - an aesthetic of careListening can teach us to appreciate our environment in a critical sense, but also in a kind of admiration for it. If we admire something because we think it has a depth or it has a beauty or some interesting aspects, we want to keep it, we want to foster it.I first met Sabine at the Tuning of the World Conference in Banff, Alberta in 1993.Sabine's work focuses on media art, listening culture, cultures of perception, experimental audiomedia, media history, media ecology, acoustic ecology as well trans- and intercultural studies. She has worked as a...
2024-06-1338 min
conscient podcaste129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?(bell and breath)Every July 18th is World Listening Day. It’s also composer and acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer’s birthday. Rest in peace Murray. Now World Listening Day 2023 proposes three very interesting listening prompts and I'll try to answer their questions in today's episode.Question 1What can we learn from the listening practices of all living beings?What can we learn from the listening practices of all living beings?It's a very...
2023-07-1610 min
conscient podcaste128 revisited - what does decolonized listening sound like to you?(bell and breath)(movement 1 of vancouver soundscape revisited, eagle)You’re listening to the first movement, eagle, of my 1996 soundscape composition, vancouver soundscape revisited.I describe the piece in the program note as :an impressionistic portrait of the musicality and poetry of past, present and future soundscapes of Vancouver composed using archival sounds dating from the World Soundscape Project in the early 1970’s and from recordings of Vancouver made in the early 1990’s by Bob MacNevin on behalf of the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU). My method was to select...
2023-07-0906 min
The Radio 3 DocumentaryTuner of the World"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for a listening experiment on public radio in Canada. Pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro, R Murray Schafer really wants you to commit: "if you're just listening to this programme casually, you'd better turn it off right now".This audio experiment was part of a series on the CBC - the Canadian Broadcasting Company, called Soundscapes of Canada, consisting of ten hours of soundscape montage, field recordings and lessons in listening. From Church bells, to birdsong, to car horns...
2023-06-1243 min
conscient podcasté100 (b) journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (composition seulement)Ceci est la version '40 minutes de composition seulement' de l'épisode 100 journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer, destiné à ceux qui veulent écouter la composition sans l'introduction de 25 ‘ et les crédits de 3’. Voir l'épisode 100 pour les détails sur cet épisode.
2022-02-1539 min
conscient podcasté100 journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25′ + composition 40′ + crédits 3′)'Que seraient les Prairies sans le vent ? C'est le son principal ici, celui par rapport auquel tout le reste est enregistré. Mais pour l'enregistrer ? Impossible.'
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journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25' + composition 40' + crédits 3') est une composition de paysage sonore qui présente des extraits d'un essai non publié que R. Murray Schafer a écrit après un voyage d'enregistrement de 10 jours qu'il a entrepris avec moi dans la campagne manitobaine en février 1997 pour la Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR). Je 'revisite' ce voyage avec une combinaison des écrits de Schafer et des nouveau...
2022-02-151h 07conscient podcasté100 journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25′ + composition 40′ + crédits 3′)journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25' + composition 40' + crédits 3') est une composition de paysage sonore qui présente des extraits d'un essai non publié que R. Murray Schafer a écrit après un voyage d'enregistrement de 10 jours qu'il a entrepris avec moi dans la campagne manitobaine en février 1997 pour la Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR). Je 'revisite' ce voyage avec une combinaison des écrits de Schafer et des nouveaux paysages sonores hivernaux enregistrés en Ontario et au Québec en 2022 et des paysages sonores d'archives. La version anglaise de cette pièce est l'épisode...
2022-02-151h 07conscient podcasté100 journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25′ + composition 40′ + crédits 3′)journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer (introduction 25' + composition 40' + crédits 3') est une composition de paysage sonore qui présente des extraits d'un essai non publié que R. Murray Schafer a écrit après un voyage d'enregistrement de 10 jours qu'il a entrepris avec moi dans la campagne manitobaine en février 1997 pour la Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR). Je 'revisite' ce voyage avec une combinaison des écrits de Schafer et des nouveaux paysages sonores hivernaux enregistrés en Ontario et au Québec en 2022 et des paysages sonores d'archives. La version anglaise de cette pièce est l'épisode...
2022-02-151h 07conscient podcasté100 (b) journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (composition seulement)Ceci est la version '40 minutes de composition seulement' de l'épisode 100 journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer, destiné à ceux qui veulent écouter la composition sans l'introduction de 25 ‘ et les crédits de 3’. Voir l'épisode 100 pour les détails sur cet épisode. Pour entendre la version avec l'introduction de 25', la composition de 40' et les crédits de 3' voir é100.
Note: Un article (en anglais) pour l’Institut de musique au Canada sur cette composition est disponible ici: Winter Diary Revisited
2022-02-1539 minconscient podcasté100 (b) journal d’hiver revisité – hommage à r. murray schafer (composition seulement)Ceci est la version '40 minutes de composition seulement' de l'épisode 100 journal d'hiver revisité - hommage à r. murray schafer, destiné à ceux qui veulent écouter la composition sans l'introduction de 25 ‘ et les crédits de 3’. Voir l'épisode 100 pour les détails sur cet épisode. Pour entendre la version avec l'introduction de 25', la composition de 40' et les crédits de 3' voir é100.
Note: Un article (en anglais) pour l’Institut de musique au Canada sur cette composition est disponible ici: Winter Diary Revisited
2022-02-1539 min
Making WavesWinter Diary Revisited by Claude Schryer - Making WavesWinter Diary Revisited, a new work by Claude Schryer, was the first presentation of the 2022 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art which took place on Sunday February 6th at the new NAISA North Media Arts Centre, a building recently purchased by New Adventures in Sound Art. This radio documentary is a tribute to R. Murray Schafer who passed away in August 2021. Schafer’s writing and the research undertaken with the World Soundscape Project were foundational to the development of the field of acoustic ecology. Schryer goes back to Schafer’s diaries that he was keeping in the late...
2022-02-1200 min
conscient podcaste99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)'What would the Prairies be without wind? It’s the keynote sound here, the one against which everything else is registered. But to record it? Impossible.'R. Murray Schafer, winter diary, 1997See episode 99 for details on winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer and to listen to the version with a 25' introduction and 3' of credits.Note: an article for the Institute for Music in Canada about this composition is available here : Winter Diary Revisited
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’...
2022-02-0839 min
conscient podcaste99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)Episode NotesBarn on the farm of R. Murray Schafer and Eleanor James, Indian River, Ontario, January 19, 2022 (photo by me)Note: the text below is a transcription of the narration in the episode (sounds are described, with their source where possible)Welcome to episode 99 of the conscient podcast, the last episode of season 3, which you might recall was on the theme of radical listening. (fade in of sound of barn)I invite you to guess what is this space. There are some sonic clues. It’s clearly an indoor space...
2022-02-081h 07
conscient podcaste99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)This is the '40-minute composition only' version of episode 99 . See episode 99 for details on winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer. It is intended for those who want to listen to the composition only without the 25' introduction and 3' of credits.
Note: an article for the Institute for Music in Canada about this composition is available here : Winter Diary Revisited
2022-02-0639 minconscient podcaste99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)This is the '40-minute composition only' version of episode 99 . See episode 99 for details on winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer. It is intended for those who want to listen to the composition only without the 25' introduction and 3' of credits.
Note: an article for the Institute for Music in Canada about this composition is available here : Winter Diary Revisited
2022-02-0639 minconscient podcaste99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)e99 winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer (25' introduction + 40' composition in 12 parts + 3m credits) is a 68-minute episode that closes season 3 and features a soundscape composition of mine based on an unpublished essay that composer R. Murray Schafer wrote after a 10-day field recording trip that he and I undertook in rural Manitoba in February 1997 to produce a radio program on winter soundscapes for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR). In this episode, I ‘revisit’ this trip by illustrating Schafer's text with new winter soundscapes recorded in Ontario and Quebec in 2022 as well as archival sound...
2022-02-061h 07conscient podcaste99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)e99 winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer (25' introduction + 40' composition in 12 parts + 3m credits) is a 68-minute episode that closes season 3 and features a soundscape composition of mine based on an unpublished essay that composer R. Murray Schafer wrote after a 10-day field recording trip that he and I undertook in rural Manitoba in February 1997 to produce a radio program on winter soundscapes for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR). In this episode, I ‘revisit’ this trip by illustrating Schafer's text with new winter soundscapes recorded in Ontario and Quebec in 2022 as well as archival sound...
2022-02-061h 07
conscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3'I came to realize that in season three that I continue to be very deeply moved by the layering of words and soundscapes. There's something about it, when new contexts for listening are created, that I find it very stimulating. It's like the spirits of the sounds are actually speaking directly to me and that I can hear and feel their presence. Now I've always felt this, but I rarely talk about it, because it sounds so, you know, strange or is hard to explain, but there it is. It's something that I just love doing and I'm interested to...
2022-01-1715 minconscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3This episode is a reading of my January 2022 blog about some of the high and lows of season 3 of this podcast and my interest in layering words and soundscapes that create new contexts for listening, with excerpts from episodes 65, 69, 81, 86, 96 and a preview of e99 Winter Diary Revisited.
This episode is a reading of my conscient podcast blog for the month of January 2022.
Some might recall that I started the 3rd season of this podcast with a fictional case study:
(Teacher) Today, we’re going to do a case study today of the second season...
2022-01-1615 minconscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3This episode is a reading of my January 2022 blog about some of the high and lows of season 3 of this podcast and my interest in layering words and soundscapes that create new contexts for listening, with excerpts from episodes 65, 69, 81, 86, 96 and a preview of e99 Winter Diary Revisited.
This episode is a reading of my conscient podcast blog for the month of January 2022.
Some might recall that I started the 3rd season of this podcast with a fictional case study:
(Teacher) Today, we’re going to do a case study today of the second season...
2022-01-1615 min
conscient podcaste52 mahtani – listening and connectingIf we can find ways to encourage people to listen, that can help them to build a connection, even if it's to a small plot of land near them. By helping them to have a new relationship with that, which will then expand and help hopefully savour a deeper and more meaningful relationship with our natural world, and small steps like that, even if it's only a couple of people at a time, that could spread. I think that nobody, no one person, is going to be able to change the world, but that doesn't mean we should give up.
2021-07-2644 minconscient podcaste52 mahtani – listening and connectingIf we can find ways to encourage people to listen, that can help them to build a connection, even if it's to a small plot of land near them. By helping them to have a new relationship with that, which will then expand and help hopefully savour a deeper and more meaningful relationship with our natural world, and small steps like that, even if it's only a couple of people at a time, that could spread. I think that nobody, no one person, is going to be able to change the world, but that doesn't mean we should give...
2021-06-1144 minconscient podcaste52 mahtani – listening and connectingIf we can find ways to encourage people to listen, that can help them to build a connection, even if it's to a small plot of land near them. By helping them to have a new relationship with that, which will then expand and help hopefully savour a deeper and more meaningful relationship with our natural world, and small steps like that, even if it's only a couple of people at a time, that could spread. I think that nobody, no one person, is going to be able to change the world, but that doesn't mean we should give...
2021-06-1144 min