Episodes

  • Anarchy In The Garden

    Anarchy In The Garden
    Jul 3 2022
    Find out more (including the lineup and links to all the artists) over at www.anarchyinthegarden.org Tracks included in this podcast include: Snap Dragon, Rhubarb, Pink Peony and The Lion Dreams of Hunting by Gabi Schaffner who can be found over at www.schaffnerin.net Laure Boer's piece Soleil ébloui - www.laureboer.com Biwanoha by Aine E. Nakamura (www.evaaine.com) An unpublished track from Les Demoiselles D'Analogues, featuring Aude Rrose (www.aude-f.com) and Renée T. Coulombe (www.reneetcoulombe.com) And a big thanks to Elo Masing (https://soundcloud.com/elo-masing)for her wonderful thoughts on women in the experimental arts! A huge shout out to our Willows Nest Patreons!! If you'd like to join them in supporting the work we do, chec it out over at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest A big thanks to Musikfonds and Bezirksamt Pankow for supporting the Festival. And find out more about Kühlspot over at https://kuehlspot.com/index.html
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    58 mins
  • Invitation to Dream

    Invitation to Dream
    Feb 15 2022
    Please note: There is no audio branding or intro in this episode If you enjoy this content, please consider joining our Patreon! Link below. Another immersive track for closed eyes, inviting you to slip into dreams or a meditative state. Perfect for both headphone listening (to hear the spatialization) or speakers for use as a meditation or sleeping track. Timed to follow a full sleep cycle, the work is composed, recorded and produced by Renée T. Coulombe. Let the vocal overtones transform in your ears as they hang in the resonant space of the reverberations. With a huge shoutout to our Patreons at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest who requested this track! Continuing our exploration into music for dreaming, for deep meditation or falling asleep - this track uses only a single voice as primary source materials. Like and subscribe if you would like more of this content.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Overnight Dreaming Part 2

    Overnight Dreaming Part 2
    Feb 8 2022
    This two-part overnight dreaming mini-series invites you to listen as you sleep! Let these ambient, vocal sound waves soothe through the night, or any time you want to relax and find some deep chill. Designed around 1 and 1/2 hour cycles to mimic your sleep, these episodes get more and more quiet so you can set the volume comfortably at the start, and know you won't be disturbed. The article referred to in this episode, on how we process voices in sleep, is in New Scientist, and you can find it here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304918-unknown-voices-spark-more-brain-activity-in-sleep-than-familiar-ones/ I mentioned Ione's book "Listening in Dreams" and you can pick up a copy of that and explore more about Deep Listening over here: https://www.deeplistening.org/
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    2 hrs and 55 mins
  • Overnight Dreaming Part 1

    Overnight Dreaming Part 1
    Feb 8 2022
    This two-part overnight dreaming mini-series invites you to listen as you sleep! Let these ambient, vocal sound waves soothe through the night, or any time you want to relax and find some deep chill. Designed around 1 and 1/2 hour cycles to mimic your sleep, these episodes get more and more quiet so you can set the volume comfortably at the start, and know you won't be disturbed. The article referred to in this episode, on how we process voices in sleep, is in New Scientist, and you can find it here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304918-unknown-voices-spark-more-brain-activity-in-sleep-than-familiar-ones/ I mentioned Ione's book "Listening in Dreams" and you can pick up a copy of that and explore more about Deep Listening over here: https://www.deeplistening.org/ Sound installation under opening from Radio Aporee, "Overnight Snowfall" ambient phonotraphy, 2021. By abyssence@gmail.com
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    3 hrs and 47 mins
  • A Winter's Soundwalk

    A Winter's Soundwalk
    Dec 24 2021
    We break our long silence in the podcast feed with a very special episode for the solstice holidays. An immersive, imaginary sound walk through a wintery, landscape - complete with stops at market sound stages, through bustling train stations packed with holiday travelers out into the landscape and past seasonal bonfires to the depths of the forest and even catch an improvised performance deep inside a cave... Enjoy the spatialized field recordings with very little processing save layering, mixing and mastering - with locations from Berlin to New Zealand, South Africa to Finland - captured in a single, sonic ramble through the holidays. May it warm your holidays by giving you a great reason to turn down the lights, grab your headphones, put tired feet up by the fire, and let your ears do the walking this holiday season. With love, from us to you! Keep great sounds like this going by becoming a Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest With a shout out to all our current Patreons - thanks for all your ongoing support! With our eternal thanks to Radio Aporee and Free Music Archive artists - who deserve recognition this time of year. A list of all recordings included are below. Sound recordings/phonography, in no particular order: From Radio Aporee (aporee.org): Winter walk / ул. Лесная, Сергиев Посад, Московская обл., Россия, 141307 - Alex K Leaving our microphones by a waterhole at night / Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa - Jeremy Hegge Outflow of Lake Pupuke, contact mic / 26 Minnehaha Avenue, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand - summerxc@gmail.com white dragon, sleeping still, green giant immersed within tranquil dreams / moss garden, Studenice, Slovenija - OR poiesis Berlin's loudest sonic place? / Westend, Berlin, Germany - Peter Cusack Freiluftkonzert des Nordholländischen Jugendorchesters auf dem Neumarkt / Open air concert of the North Dutch Youth Orchestra / Altstadt-Nord, Köln, Deutschland - Matthes moss garden, dry, flux / moss waterfall, Studenice, Slovenija - OR poiesis Kauwberg under the bridge / Kauwberg 22, 1180 Uccle, Belgique - Flavien Gillié Vilnius, Lithuania, Rasos cemetery - alas23/sala Kalamaja park (former cemetery) / A sonic walk and deep listening to Kalamaja 2 (from Kai Center) - bruno.quast cemetery ambience, trains / Friedhof Baumschulenweg, Berlin, Deutschland - udo noll Jet Crows Birds Feet / Recordings in the Garage, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK - david.j.pitt@btinternet.com Owls in the night / Recordings in the Garage, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK - david.j.pitt@btinternet.com Conference of crows / Piirimäe, Põlva maakond, Estonia - john grzinich Winter forest solitude / Järvselja primeval, Tartumaa, Estonia - john grzinich Wind, snow and hiking / Mustarinda forest, Hyrynsalmi, Finland - john grzinich 내리는雪＿overnight snowfall / 내리는雪＿overnight snowfall - abyssence@gmail.com Utena, Lithuania, flag poles in wintery wind / Utena, Lithuania, flag poles in wintery wind - alas23/sala Burning Laurel Leaves, Bredenbury, Herefordshire, UK / Bonfire - david.j.pitt Electricity pole resonance / Šlavantai, Lithuania - Marius Paulikas wind im kulturpalast warschau - udo noll Býčí skála (a cave), Czech Republic / Handpan improvisation - Pavel Paseka From Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/): Audiotransparent - December Radio - by coverclub.nl Shchedryk by Mystery Mammal
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    48 mins
  • Drones, Part 3

    Drones, Part 3
    Jun 25 2020
    Part three (at last!) is the opposite of a deep dive – it’s a flight upwards through the night sky exploring the power of drones as medicine. We go into a bit of the reasons why drones have such a physical effect, with excerpts from an article by Robert Lamb (published Nov. 16, 2016; accessed June 25, 2020): https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/ambient-music-calm-psychic-maelstrom.htm#:~:text=%22What%20happens%20with%20ambient%20music,scanning%20the%20environment%20for%20danger. We then ponder for a moment the power of drones to connect us to the world, and all who inhabit it, through deeply restorative soundscapes. After using some drones created by Tibetan singing bowls in the opening, we move on to the brand new "Celestial Music Box" to consider how the star field above us might "sound" if each star could be played like a music box. Thanks to friend of the podcast Michael Riley for granting us permission to use this excerpt! As always, thanks to all our Patreons for your support! If you'd like to join them in supporting independent arts and production, you can find us on Patreon at https://www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest You can also support this podcast and the work of our independent productions here at The Willows nest, through a one-time donation at https://www.paypal.me/bansheemedia Tracks in order of audition: (Under the voice): Glen Hoban “Singing Bowl Tanpura 1 & 3.” These were published in September of 2018. From the composer’s notes: “The sound of a "G" ('Throat Chakra') Himalayan singing bowl being droned, then having the resulting drone copied, pitch-shifted and multi-tracked to produce a long, subtly evolving drone.” Found on Freesound.org. Find these tracks and more about Glen Hoban at: https://freesound.org/people/Glen_Hoban/ Sound artist and composer Michael Riley (mikronesia) created the Celestial Music Box to be available through Patreon only under the name “Meditative Soundscapes.” Check out his Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/meditativesoundscapes. This one-hour excerpt from the music box was recorded in June 18, 2020 of the sky over Berlin, Germany. Find the trailer for the project on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/rcXzER9eEQI And check out our episode, "Long Time Gone" for more of Michael's amazing work! If you are looking for some summer reading, may we at the podcast suggest the New York Public LIbrary's massive, and fabulous, Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List, published on June 9, 2020. So much good stuff, so much summer reading! https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/09/schomburg-center-black-liberation-reading-list Because until Black Lives Matter, no lives matter. We are all related, beloveds.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Drones, Part 2

    Drones, Part 2
    May 12 2020
    Part two of our deep dive into drones—exploring how we experience sustained and resonant frequencies in the body, altering our moods and perceptions of the world. Advocating for listening as a whole-body activity and echoing the call of Deep Listening, this episode curates some contemporary takes on drones in global musical traditions. Then we take a distinct turn toward the mechanical, closing with three machine drones that invite us to experience the "noise" we often tune out in the form of field recordings. Thanks to all our Patreons for your support! You can find us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest You can support this podcast and the work of our independent productions here at The Willows nest, through a one-time donation at www.paypal.me/bansheemedia Tracks in order of audition: Peter Cusack "Distant mine, pervasive sounds, astonishing view" /Czech Republic. Found on www.aporee.org/maps From Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org): "Haratanaya Sree" by Veena Kinhal from the album "Tribute to Venna Raja Rao." "Raag (YouTube)" by Vinod Prasanna x Okey Szoke x Pompey from the album "s/t" "Drone Pine" by Blue Dot Sessions from the album "The Pine Barrens" "Post Drone" by Uuriter from the album "Analog Fields" Closing tracks permission of the artist, Peter Terner. Unpublished: "Tesco close" "Gate Painting, Drone, Hiss" and "Sage Hum (soft)"
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    54 mins
  • Drones, Part 1

    Drones, Part 1
    May 6 2020
    This week we go deep, deep down to begin an exploration of the musical phenomenon of drones. Beginning with an invitation to listen, deeply, to some drones created by your host using some recent instrument libraries released free from Spitfire Labs, home of Spitfire Audio. Here, three samples from the "London Atmos" pack help set the scene for our series of episodes exploring the musical, psychological and cultural impact of sonic drones. This gentle introduction will be followed with a series of episodes exploring drones from sources both traditional and surprising! For more on Spitfire Audio and the Spitfire Labs instrument packs, go to: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/ The sample packs I used can be found here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/ Field recordings found on Radio Aporee: aporee.org/maps They include: "Upės gatvė, Lithuania, chimney support wire" and "Utena, Lithuania, fence-geophone" by alas23/sala and "wind in poplar trees / Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Deutschland" and "dry leaves in the wind, city hum / Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Deutschland" To join our Patreon, visit www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest or make a one-time donation at www.paypal.me/bansheemedia
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    45 mins