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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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e117 - deeper into the forest (bonus)

conscient podcast ·

2023/04/23

(in memoriam Robin Mathews : November 1, 1931 - April 25, 2023)Transcription of bonus episodeRobinThat's a funny poem. ClaudeWhat's it about, do you think? What do you remember it being about? Do you recognize it as your own? ? RobinI do recognize it, but I don't know where it came from. ClaudeWell, you wrote it just a few weeks ago on January 1st. You talked something about the grimms myths, that deeper into the woods is a reference to that. Does that ring a bell? RobinYeah. Grimm's fairy tales, I

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e117 - deeper into the forest

conscient podcast ·

2023/04/23

(in memoriam Robin Mathews : November 1, 1931 - April 25, 2023)(bell)(Deeper Into the Forest (2023) poem by Robin Mathews, narrated by Robin Mathews with sound design from field recordings by me)Deeper Into the ForestLights flash in the skies above.Voices sound….As if coming over a hill,As if connected to bodiesOut of reach,(perhaps, even, the products of imagination)Except… you know the voices,You recognize (or think you recognize)The lights.You know the messageEven before it is uttered.The pathway

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e116 loss - what does ecological loss sound like...

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2023/04/16

(bell and breath)(muffled sound of ocean waves)This recording filters out all high and mid-range frequencies that I captured of ocean waves at Canaveral National Seashore in Florida, on March 23, 2023 around midnight while doing an impromptu soundwalk with colleagues from the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference Listenng Pasts - Listening Futures.Why did I do this? I invite you to sit with the loss of these upper and mid frequencies as a metaphor for the loss of biodiversity on earth.I don’t

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e115 ordinary - open your window and listen, what do...

conscient podcast ·

2023/04/09

(bell)I got up this morning, or I was awoken rather by the most beautiful sound. It was a snow plow, very gently pushing the snow from the sidewalk. It was a beep and I could hear it, at a distance, and now it's passed. So I decided to take out my microphone and, and record. It made me think about my friend and colleague Eric La Casa in France, who I've known for a long time, and is a very accomplished sound artist, and who often records quite ordinary sounds spaces - but they're not ordinary at all

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e114 privilege - what are the privileges in your life?

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2023/04/02

(Claude Schryer n 2023)It's March 6, 2023 and I’m at Trout Lake Park in Vancouver. About 2 years ago, I went for a long soundwalk with climate activist, and now politician, Anjali Appadurai, which became episode 23 of season 2 of this podcast. It was the first time that Anjali did a soundwalk and it was a very powerful moment for me because I've often thought back about what Anjali said that day. It has informed my work as a climate activist and on the role of art in the climate emergency. I

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00:06:17

e113 soundwalk (part 2) - how can we deepen our...

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2023/03/26

(Jacek Smolicki)The ultimate question I'm asking is how can we move away from soundwalk as a kind of framed aesthetic experience or artistic experience and turn it into an existential practice or basically something that is just ingrained in our everyday life and we don't have to frame it anymore. It's just basically part of our way of living. (Claude Schryer)Can you give an example of that? (Jacek Smolicki)An academic example would be the concepts developed by Steven Feld, acoustemology, where

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e113 soundwalk (part 1) - what is my position in...

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2023/03/26

(Claude Schryer)Jacek, what is soundwalking? (Jacek Smolicki)That's a very broad question, but I'll try to answer from two perspectives: my own and from what is kind of more generally considered soundwalking. So, to quote Hildegard Westerkamp, one of the pioneers of that practice, basically, a soundwalk is any kind of excursion into an environment which is motivated by us listening to it. Whether we do it with or without technologies or whether we do it on our own or in a group and the point of

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e112 listening - how can listening help ?

conscient podcast ·

2023/03/19

(various layered excerpts from my soundscape compositions throughout this episode) Conclusion 1 : we need to face reality and learn how to unlearnMayer Hillman, e01: ‘We’re doomed. The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to be prepared to say so.’Joan Sullivan, e01 terrified ‘even if we are doomed, and I think we

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e111 traps - what are the traps in your life?

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2023/03/12

(bell, breath and occasional balloon sounds)Me : have you ever had the feeling that you were being observed?Observer : I’m observing you. Me: Who are you and what are you observing? Observer: Ah, well, I’m a part of you and I’m observing the traps that you fall into.Me: Traps?Observer : Do you remember the Facing Human Wrongs course you took during the summer of 2022Me: Ya.Observer: The one about navigating paradoxes and complexities of social and global change and all those trappings along the

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e110 drain - where does your bathwater go?

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2023/03/05

(sound of bath draining, at first with a strong oscillating rhythm followed by water flowing and silence)It goes down the drain (again) and into the sewer system to be processed and dumped into the Ottawa river, then it evaporates into the sky and it rains back into our lakes and rivers, bringing with it with many pollutants, and then is pumped into our homes, in our bodies and heated until… (repeated and improvised)Where does your bathwater go? *The rhythm comes from this sound of my bathtub

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e109 being - how can we listen through art?

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2023/02/26

(bell and breath)On December 19th, 2022 I read David Maggs’ Art and the Ouija Board? blog, as part of his Metcalf Foundation Fellow on Arts and Society.I was struck by this section in particular:Like a Ouija board or a dowsing wand, art is the capacity to pay attention to the world in unusual ways, a capacity to attend to the world in terms of the aesthetic. To make sense of life through lines, shapes, patterns, forms, colours, textures, rhythms, harmonies, imagery, and more. As Canadian poet Don

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e108 2048 - what speculative fiction stories inhabit...

conscient podcast ·

2023/02/19

(Sound of fire)This is another fireside storytelling episode, this time by a wood stove at our cottage. Thanks for joining me. Pull up a chair… As I mentioned in episode 106, sometimes, when I get discouraged I like to build a fire, like this, to lift my spirits and to re-energize. (Sound of fire) Today’s story is an excerpt from Part 1, Warm Up : Into The Future from Vanessa Andreotti’s Hospicing Modernity book, written by the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective. I first heard this

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e107 harm - what do you not know?

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2023/02/12

(bell and breath)Today's episode does not have any sound other than my voice and a series of silences. And I think you’ll understand why in a minute.(Silence)Writer and broadcaster Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled, became the first indigenous person to chair the Canada Council for the Arts during the summer of 2020, a few weeks before I retired from the Council. (Silence)In an August 6, 2020 interview with the Toronto Star, I was deeply moved by what Jesse said. The way I view work now within

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e106 fire - what can we do about our collective...

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2023/02/05

(bell and breath)(sound of campfire)I invite you to slow down, or maybe stop, what you’re doing and listen to a campfire storyWe’re sitting in the snow, by the Preston River in Duhamel, Québec. The snow absorbs the sound here but it is also slightly amplified by the cottage and frozen trees. It's raining so you also hear drops of water, snow and ice falling in between the fire crackles. Sometimes, when I get discouraged about the ecological crisis, I build a campfire like this to lift my spirits and

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e105 rope - how did this episode make you feel?

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2023/01/29

This recording is a rope holding a boat to the dock at Toronto Harbour on November 26th, 2022. Sketches by Sabrina Mathews. *Hi, thanks for listening to this episode.Really. I know how difficult it can be to face the realities of the ecological crisis.I hope that listening to thesesound art works and/ot these brilliant, passionate, and visionary artists and cultural workershelped lift your spirits.Here is a link for more information on season 5.Please note that, in parallel with the production of

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e104 time - what does a very small moment in a much...

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2023/01/22

(bell and breath)(loud sound of train passing at close distance)(once the train has passed, cross fade between quiet city and very quiet mountain forest)(indigenous artist and curator France Trepanier from conscient podcast é55 trépanier - a very small moment in a much larger space, in French):I think that with this cycle of colonialism, and what it has brought, that we are coming to the end of this cycleand with hindsight, we will realize that it was a very small moment in a much larger space, and

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e103 heat - what does decarbonization sound like to you?

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2023/01/15

(sound of bell and breath)On December 5th 2022 we had a heat pump installed in our house in order to reduce our carbon footprint. What is a heat pump, you ask? Well, basically, It heats and cools a space by transferring thermal energy from the outside using a refrigeration cycle powered by electricity. It’s a more environmentally friendly source of heating than say methane gas but it still generates carbon through manufacturing and in the production of electricity to run it. It also does not address

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e102 aesthetics - how can we 'de-modernize' art?

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2023/01/08

(ocean shoreline)The problem with beauty is that it can distract us from reality.Sit with me, please, take a moment. Sit and listen… Over there, about 56 kilometers to the northeast, is the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver.Listen to the ocean flowing, like the blood and liquids in your body. We are water.Listen to the ravens passing by and croaking. They are poetry in motion.Listen to the city rumbling at a distance, but it's hard to

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e101 tension - how do you feel now?

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2023/01/01

(Deep breath)TensionI was thinking about the tensions in our lives and the art of finding a balance point… So I went for a sound walk in Vancouver and came upon a piece of fishing line. I brought it home, strung it up and recorded myself plucking it (sound of fishing line being plucked by hand) I held the fishing line with my left hand while I gradually reduced the tension with my right hand. Later that day I went for another soundwalk and came upon a white metal fence. I started to gently tap one

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e00 what is sounding modernity?

conscient podcast ·

2022/12/06

Welcome to episode 0 of season four of the conscient podcast, Sounding Modernity, five-minute sound meditations, published every Sunday from January 1 through December 31, 2023. My name is Claude Schryer and I'm happy to be back podcasting about art and the ecological crisis after a 10 month break.I'm talking to you today from the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, also known as Ottawa, where my family and I are grateful to live. Veuillez prendre note qu’une version

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