Silence, and some ideas for enjoying it.
This month, I am taking a wee break from my dear podcast. In its absence, please feel free to fill an hour of silence with:
- more silence
- one-person rock outs
- multiple-person rocks outs
- eating corn, as it is in season
- listening to Arthur Russell’s instrumental record “Tower of Meaning” which generally makes me stop everything and just sort of think about how things could be.
- sitting by a river with no books or anything entertaining
- attempting to communicate with plants
- putting things on your turntable and trying to guess if they will fall off or continue spinning, and then watching them spin for a while, if they remain.
If any of you become particularly enlightened during this hour of absence, please tell me about it.
lifeafterradio@gmail.com
Miss you,
Sarah
p.s. here is my current favorite wall of noise. courtesy of Her Jazz Noise Collective.
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Here is the point where I tell you about our tiny dream. To have a tiny studio with a computer and mixer and radio mic’s, replacing my laptop and Zoom H4 home job, which is great, but doesn’t allow for much training and sharing. To have small stipends for our contributers and designers. To add a real blog, with real writing, and real writers.
Which is why we’re having a party! Which is also a radio show! And a fundraiser! If you live in Vancouver, you have the opportunity to be part of our live radio audience, and support our cause at the same time. We have teamed up with Front Magazine for the launch of their next issue. Which means that the show will be at the Western Front, which means the sound will be amazing, and the space gorgeous, and we will all marvel at how wonderful everything is.
I’m really excited about the on-stage interviews. My subjects will be pretending to be from Future Vancouver, where everything is different. We will also feature musicians playing strange things in futuristic ways, like the inside of piano’s, and wine glasses, and even radios.
So what else are you doing on May 9th? Taking a bath? Watching paint dry? Boring. Come to the Western Front!
contacting us
questions/comments/ideas/how to shower us with financial support so we can make better and better radio:
lifeafterradio@gmail.com
also, my apologies to Emily Hunter and Andy Hudson, who were brutally omitted from the credits, as I added in their lovely voices late at night in a mad frenzy of editing.
so thank you to Emily, Andy, Graeme, Matt, Kat, “Beth”, Aili, the Regional Assembly of Text, and everyone who lent their voices.