If you are new to the podcast, here are a few episodes to start with. There are 4 categories to choose from: Experimental Narrative, Field Recordings, Sound Collages, and Compositions.
Experimental Narrative
ISW 01: Accidents of Life
What do you remember more, the death of a friend or the death of thousands? Ep.1 of a limited series.
167: Christmas has been ruined… or something like that.
A semi-narrative story about beepers, the before, and the thin film between life and work.
179: Exchange
Conversations and interactions while waiting for the bus, talking to a colleague on Zoom, chatting with a stranger at the bar, and with the voices in the dark.
180: Benefits
Benefits: Dear future humans; for many, this isn’t the plan; tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow…
Field Recordings
A binaural field recording of walking in Central Park after a snowstorm.
A binaural field recording, from the Queens Museum to my apartment in Harlem via the MTA.
A binaural recording of Amsterdam Central Station. I was sitting at the main train platforms until someone started to smoke nearby, at that point, I walked through the station to the busy street outside.
Sound Collages
An audio collage about the truth and consequences of a moving frame of reference.
Listening to Rube Goldberg machines, Isaac Asimov, ideas about artificial intelligence, and a few songs.
The big bang, 1950’s dating advice, what it means to be popular, and the death of capitalism.
Lime Disease, Concussions, the Anthropocene and Sunn O))), with a number of synthesizers. — the brain, body, and environment.
Compositions
An old song on a computer-generated piano; a theme from a 1950’s instructional video; miscellaneous bits, clicks, and static; unintelligible voices; a river; a slow bell.
A new composition for watching the snow melt, or watching the ice float on the Lake, or to calm the mind as it awaits the future.
An incantation to the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park, that has been underused these last months. Its pipes are not adored by listeners, its tunes are heard mostly by trees, buildings, and birds
A new composition for headphones featuring a field recording near the end of the Kitchen Mesa trail (Ghost Ranch, NM), slow midi-controlled tones, and percussive sounds made with a small Amazon box.