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conscient podcast

e243 was the last episode of season 6. I’m now on a break from hosting and producing conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes until further notice, except for narration of ‘a calm presence’ Substack posting and occasional ENCORE episodes. Comments and questions are always welcome: claude [at] conscient [dot] ca

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e136 electricity - are. you. powerless?

conscient podcast ·

2023/09/03

I improvised a story during a power outage at the cottage about sound without electricityTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath)It's Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. Yesterday, at 4.53 pm, the power went out at my cottage and I wanted to make this episode about our dependence on electricity.So here I am in an analog world, normally, with electricity, but without power, of course, there are no lights.In the cabin there's no pump to draw water, though there is a bit of water left in the tank, so I can

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e135 layers - how do you feel now?

conscient podcast ·

2023/08/27

i played back four episodes from this season at the same time and listened to how they interactTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath) Episode 105 stretches time(e105 ropes)Episode 101 releases tension(e101 tension)Episode 118 follows your shit(e118 shit)e116 mourns loss(e116 loss)How do you feel now?*I love to listen to the interplay of layered soundscapes : how they come in and out of each other like cloud formations, so I mixed 4 of my favorites from this season and you can hear the

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e134 drops - are you a drop of water?

conscient podcast ·

2023/08/20

one morning I heard rhythmic water dripping from a gutter and improvised this poem(bell and breath)(Voice synchronized to sound of water drop)I am a drop of waterI am a drop of rainI am your bodyI am your pain (Repeated)Are you a drop of water?*CREDITSRecorded at the back deck of our home in Ottawa on August 13th, 2023. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive

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e133 deconstruction - how can you constructively...

conscient podcast ·

2023/08/13

while doing my qi gong one morning I heard roofers removing tiles and recalled simplesoundscape in 2016…TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE(bell + sound of roofers taking off tiles)While doing my daily qi gong on May 25, 2023 I was listening to roofers removing tiles on a nearby house. I’ve always been troubled and fascinated by the sound of deconstruction… of things being ripped apart… of the undoing of objects held together with glue, nails or screws. I sometimes feel the pain of the wood, metals and

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e132 slow - how does the pace of speech relate to the...

conscient podcast ·

2023/08/06

my zen practice taught me that unhurried speech invites us to slow downEPISODE TRANSCRIPTION(bell and breath)When I was a student at the White Wind Zen Community in Ottawa I had the privilege of listening to recorded teachings by Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi. You can hear some his recording on wwzc.org.During these teisho, the roshi speaks very slowly, with a lot of silence between words, a bit like what I’m doing now.Silence between words.As well as words between silence.Now I love listening to spoken

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00:05:22

e131 modernity - are you modernity?

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/30

an exercise where I invite listeners to stop what they are doing, listen and to enjoy the experience(unedited improvised narration)Listening is at the heart of this season of the conscient podcast. Specifically, listening to the sounds of modernity, but also listening to everything, all at once and noticing what is going on, usually a mix of systems collapse and resilient beauty. So today’s episode is a listening exercise. At the end of this recording I invite you to stop what you are doing for a

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e130 fiction - what stories do you want to hear?

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/22

a quote from robin parmar about speculative fiction that raises some questions(bell and breath)I love the sound of leaves dancing on hard surfaces. (sound of a leaf blowing)It’s poetic and kinetic and you’ll see in a minute how this sound relates to this episode about speculative fiction. With his kind permission, I will quote composer Robin Parmar, from a question he asked me at the end of my keynote presentation at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference ‘Listening Pasts - Listening

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e117 portrait of robin mathews (bonus episode)

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/19

Here is another bonus episode, this one is called 'Portrait of Robin Mathews'. It is 3 part unpublished radio program I created in 2005 in collaboration with Robin based on an interview I recorded with him in 2004. The program is a layered discussion about the history of political poetry in Canada, the role of the artist in society and family matters, in particular his relationship with me as my father-in-law. This program also includes Robin reading excerpts of his poetry as well as some of my

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e129 world listening day - what does world listening...

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/16

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

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e128 revisited - what does decolonized listening...

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/09

(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

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e127 halfway - towards what are you midway?

conscient podcast ·

2023/07/03

Note: the podcast recording was improvised based on this script and therefore has additional material.This 127th episode of the conscient podcast marks the halfway point of season 4, which, as you might recall, is called Sounding Modernity and explores what modernity might sound like, how it affects us and what we can do about it.. Maybe…A heads up that this episode is 57 minutes in duration because it is part of the ‘afield’ series of framework radio in Estonia. The season began on January 1 with

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e126 sleepless - what keeps you up at night?

conscient podcast ·

2023/06/25

(soundscapes of east vancouver at c. 5am)I can’t sleep tonight. What about you? I love nighttime soundscapes. They’re so bareboned, minimal, like the rumble that you hear now, mostly from Vancouver harbour, but also the industrial area here in east vancouver.So I'm up, recording, listening, figuring out what keeps me up at night, this night, other nights, when I listen and try to understand... Sometimes I feel like I can hear inaudible sounds, like the polar ice caps melting…(homeless person walking

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e125 observer - how do you respond to climate news?

conscient podcast ·

2023/06/18

(bell)I take stock of climate news by reading the headlines of the excellent daily newspaper, national observer, for example, on Tuesday April 25th, 2023 these were the headlines : ‘We might have a coverup problem’: MPs grill Alberta Energy Regulator CEO over oil sands tailings leaks(sound of dripping and filtering from simplesoundscapes e34 goutte)‘Meet the man turning mushrooms into meat’(quiet field with crickets)‘How the pandemic challenged libertarianism’(crowd at protest)‘Tide-powered clean

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e125 promenade - how do you soundwalk?

conscient podcast ·

2023/06/11

I decided to go for a walk this morning here in Kitchener, Ontario. A soundwalk.. Just because it's something to do; to be connected to a place. This is a settlement of course : a city.What I try to do is listen to sounds past, present, and future at the same time. How does one do that? It’s mostly about feeling our way through what was here, and what I assume was forested lands. What is here now is mostly asphalt, brick houses and a few trees. In the future, one could hope that it would come back

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e123 maps - what possibilities do you not yet know?

conscient podcast ·

2023/06/04

(Bell and breath) I sometimes try to map out, on a piece of blank paper like this, where I think humanity is at with the ecological crisis…This helps me, among other things, to come to terms with reality. I decided to share this exercise with you, listeners of the conscient podcast, in case you have similar thoughts. I’ll start on the left with mitigation, which is the act of reducing the severity, or painfulness, of an activity. In this case, we are mitigating our own self-destruction. The second

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e122 quiet - stop and listen

conscient podcast ·

2023/05/28

(bell and breath)(Sounds of forest in winter with icicles)Sometimes we just have to stop and listen. Without passing judgement. Just listen….Sometimes we just have to stop and listen*Recorded at our cottage in Duhamel, Québec on December 30th, 2022.Thanks to the forest and the frozen rain for this wonderful soundscape.I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive

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e121 rumble - what killed dr decibel?

conscient podcast ·

2023/05/21

(bell)(humming to urban drones) This is Dr. Decibel. Your sonic superhero on the unseated ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations otherwise known as… Well, I think you know where I am.(plane passing by)You have a problem here people. The low frequencies are excessive : traffic, industry, ventilation. Layers and layers of rumble and I hate rumble. Rumbleeeee is not something that I enjoy, so I’m going to use my superpowers today to reduce the amount of rumble in

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e120 metro - stop and listen

conscient podcast ·

2023/05/14

(bell and breath)(sounds of a subway car throughout)Sometimes we just have to stop and listen. Without passing judgement. Just listen….Sometimes we just have to stop and listen.*Recorded on February 2, 2023 at 1.43pm between the Georges-Vanier, Lucien-L’Allier, Bonaventure and Square Victoria stops of the Montreal metro.I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive

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e119 construction - how does the sound of...

conscient podcast ·

2023/05/07

In this episode I invite you to listen to a construction site, unaltered and raw. How does the sound of construction affect you?*This episode was recorded at the corner of Frances St and Salsbury Drive, Vancouver on March 6, 2023 at 10.10am.Thanks to the construction workers for use of their sounds. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the

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e118 toilet - where does your shit go?

conscient podcast ·

2023/04/30

(bell and breath)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 1)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 2)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 3)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 4)where does your shit go?*These four toilet flushes were recorded in Peterborough, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario Thanks to the sanitary workers around the world who literally clean up our shit. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode

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