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.

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)"

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

Sounds Curious Listeners - here's a crossover episode from our Patreon feed from The Willows Nest. This is a personal little audio postcard with two fantastic new musical pieces that have graced the tiny little stage here and some lovely binaural field recordings by some favorites over at Radio Aporee. There is no advisory to wear headphones for the binaural recordings, or podcast audio branding, its just some lovely sounds from me to you. Please stay safe wherever you are, reach out if you need support, and thanks for listening! Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest, on SoundCloud at www.soundcloud.com/sounds-curious-podcast Welcome to a special home quarantine edition of News from the Nest! We're obviously on lockdown, so no concerts for the foreseeable future, but that doesn't mean we don't have lots of archives to plunder for you, our Patreons! This episode is a bit like Sounds Curious, and may indeed find its way into the feed over there one day soon. But you get exclusive access for the next few days at least, and all my thanks! Tracks you'll hear in order of audition are: (from aporee.org/maps, Radio Aporee): "Beautiful early summer morning birdsong/Leafield Rd. Chipping Norton Ox7 3DB UK" by Mike Taylor. [email protected] "evening walk/gravel path and streets, Castello, Venice" by OR poiesis From The Willows Nest: Andrew Raffo Dewar "Ghosts in the Uncanny Valley IV" presented back on November 2, 2019. From the shownotes: “Ghosts in the Uncanny Valley IV” for soprano saxophone and quadraphonic live electronics using the Kyma sound design environment. This is a new work from a series of pieces that explores the interactive possibilities of live electronics and acoustic instruments, and the unusual sound areas to be discovered between and within them. Find more on the composer at: https://music.ua.edu/people/andrew-raffo-dewar/ (Also from Radio Aporee): "Tourists in front of the cathedral/75004 Paris, France" Vincent Duseigne. From The Willows Nest: Stefanie Egedy from the evening "Triptico Utropico Transnistrio." From the show notes: Stefanie’s field of action is the sound territory. Her motto is the sub-bass and bass sounds, whose capacity of making itself present in the space and of interacting with the medium is of her greatest interest. Besieged by this scenario, she operates in the interaction between the sonorous and musical language in the communication between beings. In her works, she uses field recordings, electronic and daily material sounds. Alongside Simon Fernandes she does the label Coisas que Matam, is part of the artist run space Dahaus, acts as a DJ, has a residency at Obra party and researches with Camille Laurent the relations between light and sound. find out more about her at: www.stefanieegedy.com

Look, we can't all be William Shakespeare and knock out King Lear while we're stuck at home. Most of us are lucky to put on pants at some point in the day. So in this episode we ponder one of my favorite topics, failure, and the beautiful things that become possible through it. Featuring two gorgeous performances that happened during less self-isolating times in Berlin. Content Warning: The first performance features frequent, non-explicit but repeated references to prostitution. May not be appropriate for younger listeners. But honestly it is kind of hilarious. The first feature is by the Brazilian performer-composer Manuel Pessoa de Lima, whose intimate performances defy genre as he will tell you himself. Taking on failure as a topic of research through his graduate work, he confronts it in his work in some unique and haunting ways. His piece is a strange and sometimes awkward journey through sound worlds and self-reflections to arrive at last at some truly terrible, terrible Strauss. Failure never sounded so right... More information on his work can be found at: https://www.manuel-lima.com/ A link to the performance archive from the October show: http://willowsnest.org/events/triptico-utropico-transnistrio/ His video works: https://vimeo.com/manuellima The second featured track is from a recent performance by AudeRrose. Aude is a particularly versatile artists, working in fine and media arts, performance pieces, experimental works and installations. From her performance biography: "Her performance works oscillate between digital and analog medium, combining original cross-border techniques between real-time video feedback and digital and acoustic sounds. She often uses overhead projectors, slide projectors, typewriters, clocks, that are amplified via micro-contact microphones, combined with acoustic and digital sounds." Find her website at http://aude-f.com/ More of her performances on her performance page at: http://aude-f.com/performance/ Aude teamed up with your intrepid host, Renée Thérèse Coulombe in our duo "les demoiselles d'analogue." More information about me can be found on my own web page: www.reneetcoulombe.com. Of course as always if you like the work and want to support the podcast, our little production space in Berlin and all that we do - you can make a one time donation through Paypal at: www.paypal.me/bansheemedia Or join the Willows Nest Patreon over at www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest Donations keep us going through this crazy time, and keep the electricity flowing through our computer to keep the art work flowing...

This time we celebrate the launch of the new Echozoo project (www.echozoo.org) that imagines the sounds of extinct species in their habitats, my composer and sound artist Michael Riley https://mikronesia.bandcamp.com/ We ponder the sounds of extinction and the past, and ponder the present of the natural world. With thanks to Radio Aporee and all the artists that upload their sounds over there, so we can keep listening into this big, beautiful world... ...and as always a huge thanks to our Patreons for keeping this show going!! Find our Patreon over at www.Patreon.com/TheWillowsNest or if you can make a one-time donation at www.paypal.me/bansheemedia to help us cover costs. Sound installation (intro and under voice) found on Aporee.org/maps: Beautiful early summer morning birdsong / Leafield Rd, Chipping Norton OX7 3DB, UK by artist Mike Taylor ([email protected]) Selections from Echozoo Project (courtesy of the artist): Caroline Parakeet Giant Sloth Golden-billed Toad Ivory-billed Woodpecker Saint Helenas Earwig Closing field recording by Jeremy Hegge "leaving the mics in the forest, tropical dusk to night / Magnetic Island, QLD, Australia"

Celebrating an old tradition a new way: telling a spooky story at Yuletide, a Victorian ghost story, complete with some sound installation from field recordings by artists around the world. Celebrating the wonderful atmosphere that field recordings can make. So turn down the lights, stoke the fireplace and settle in for a spooky tale for the longest night of the year. The story, The Goodwood Ghost, has been attributed to Charles Dickens, but the author is unknown. With a The story can be found at https://ghostsandstories.com/short-ghost-story-11.html The sound installation contains field recordings and sound effects from Radio Aporee and Freesound.org and include: [email protected] "Beautiful early summer morning birdsong / Leafield Rd, Chipping Norton OX7 3DB, UK" on radioaporee.org/maps Timbre "simulation of Victorian Street" https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/87462/ Fritz Schl "Horse-drawn carriage in the forest/Ribbeck 14641, Nauen Deutschland" on radioaporee.org/maps [email protected] "Birds on a summer day on the Danish countryside 8752 Østbirk, Denmark on radioaporee.org/maps Matucha "Door thick creak medium perspective" https://freesound.org/people/matucha/sounds/181458/ Lucas McBath "horse whinny" https://freesound.org/people/foxen10/sounds/149024/ Soundscape_Leuphana "soundscape leuphana dog whimper" https://freesound.org/people/Soundscape_Leuphana/sounds/210440/ Prosounder "galloping-horse" https://freesound.org/people/prosounder/sounds/32679/ Arnaud Coutancier "nervous-horses" https://freesound.org/people/arnaud%20coutancier/sounds/271266/ Veljo Runnel "Windy hilltop by Hornoya lighthouse / Hornøya og Reinøya, 9950 Vardø, Norway" on radioaporee.org/maps

This week kicks off a series of episodes using field recordings in creative ways to revel in the sonic details that emerge through some old-fashioned analogue processing techniques drawn from the early days of electroacoustic music. To start, a composed sonic dream through an imaginary winter's landscape, arranged to create an imaginary listening environment right in your headphones. Composed by your host, Renée T. Coulombe, with field recordings from Radio Aporee (www.aporee.org/maps): John Grzinich "Wind and creaking trees" Emajōe Suursoo, Tartu maakond, Estonia OR poiesis "path of seasons, winder meadow, snow, Piramida (Slovenia) alas23 "Utena, Lithuania, snowflakes on dried reed" Utena, Lithuania OR poiesis "river Drava, Loka" "stone, water, void" (Slovenia) palkovich.sgt "Zvonkohra/carillon" Prague 7, Czech Republic Matthes "Rundgang über den mittelalterlichen Weichnachtsmarkt/Stroll through the medieval Christmas market" Siegburg, Deutschland "Wind Chimes at Ulm Christmas Market" Ulm, Germany Richard Bentley "Snow Walking Meditation" Woodcote, UK

Today's episode goes back to some musical basics, with several live recordings with global artists from my home to yours. Opening with the glorious Aristarain & Lewkowicz Duo of Sophia Aristarain and Javier Lewkowicz, who rocked the house last Spring with their concert of traditional and original music from the native Argentina, as well as music from Brazil and all over South America. We then jump to a concert of traditional music from Greece and Turkey and the Ufki Bobowski duo of Fatih Ermete (Lute of Istanbul, Ud) and Borys Slowikowski on the frame drums. While Fatih is from Istanbul and Borys from Poland, the two met in Crete and were drawn together by their mutual love of these musical traditions. We then slow things down with a stroll in Southern India with Dr. Vijay Kannan, whose Haunting Bamboo: Nada Yoga with Indian Bamboo flute event at The Willows Nest just happened back in October. This truly haunting and beautiful musical recording includes the moment when he asked a friend in the audience, a wonderful classical singer in this tradition, to improvise with him on the flute! Finally, we hop the Red Eye 2 Tokyo, a new musical project by composer and multi-instrumentalist Shih-Wei Wu, that fuses the raw energy of Japanese Folk music with the cool sounds of West Coast Jazz. So sit back, relax, and travel the globe without ever leaving the couch - from our little global Nest perched high atop Boxhagener Strasse... If you like what we do and want to support our mission, please consider joining The Willows Nest Patreon over at www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest Audio installation under voiceover: Felix Blume, "Wind singing in an old tube on the top of the mountain" https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/447375/ More Aristarain-Lewkowicz on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2oFVmkg7bZc Ufki Bobowski on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wryTr0BLsWU Vijay Kannan has his own very successful YouTube channel over at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ6QWInwx5uN4frT6_tHRiQ Finally Red Eye 2 Tokyo can be found over at www.shihweiwu.com. You can find their single over at https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/redeye2tokyo and look for the new album soon! If you are in the Los Angeles Area, consider stopping by the RE2T album release party at Angry Horse Brewing Company in Montebello on November 19, 2019!

After a long absence! Finally - thanks to everyone for your patience waiting for part 2! Want to help me dedicate more time to the podcast and less time to getting freelance work? Please support our home! www.patreon.com/TheWillowsNest – home of the Sounds Curious podcast, and so much more. Every contribution, no matter how large or small, is greatly appreciated. There are great rewards at every level, too! We try to feature recordings made in The Willows Nest where possible. Show notes for recordings used in this episode in order: freesound.org/people/bajko/sounds/378055/ (Artist: Bajko; title: “sfx_snow_footstep-02.wav) freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/447375/ (Artist Felix Blume; title: Wind singing in an old tube on the top of the mountain) freesound.org/people/dahlJ/sounds/419727/ (Artist: dahlJ; title: “ASMR Tapping) freesound.org/people/harveyjnz/sounds/360382/ (Artist: Harveyjnz; title: “foam microphone wind screen”) freesound.org/people/Cass_bass/sounds/401180/ (Artist: Cass_bass; title: “ASMR test, Eating chips, clock ticking, and soft talking and whispering”) freesound.org/people/That_sound_was_strange/sounds/490896/ (Artist: That sound was strange; title: Exo Blubl) From Radio aporee, (aporee.org/maps)Artist: John Grzinich; title" Mustarinda forest, Hyrynsalm, Finland" Recording Live at The Willows Nest from D.A.M.P.F. / August of 2019. From the program information: "Participants: Fiona Sullivan (USA): Fiona creates to explore extended vocal possibilities and discover new sonic realms influenced by the beauty and complexity of nature. Vinyl Dinosaur (NZ/TBA): Amateur Optical Semi-Professional Nonmusician Art. Uses bodies, some virtual. Offers adventure, contemplation and fun sound Georgie (BO): Bolivian musician, composer and improviser based in Berlin. Fabs die rakete (DE) – 3….2….1… Oh no fuel…. Again Bpschhhhh#wuuuuusch Chance of success: 0% Sharon Mercado Nogales (BO): (1994) Dancer/ choreographer from Bolivia, based in Berlin. *terms and conditions apply The Willows Nest is a private arts incubator high in a roost above Boxhagener Kiez, that holds space for artistic exploration and development through residencies, gatherings, skill sharing and teaching. We are a completely non-corporate and non-institutional space that invites the Berlin community to experience global arts in a very local setting."