Listening with China Blue
Listening with China Blue is a podcast about listening. In this podcast the artist China Blue interviews musicians, artists, filmmakers, teachers, Buddhists, psychiatrists, business leaders and culture creators about how listening leads to creativity, innovation, change and…
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Listening with Jim Nollman, Interspecies Musician (opens the original)
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What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms? In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I talk with Jim Nollman, interspecies musician and creator of "Orcas Greatest Hits", about music, orcas, and listening across species. We explore what happens when music becomes a meeting place between species: how Jim Nollman improvises with orcas, how he recognizes when an animal is responding, and what decades of listening have taught him about communication, intellig
Listening with Hildegard Westerkamp, Acoustic Ecology Composer (opens the original)
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What if the world around us is a continuous symphony and listening is how we become part of it? In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with pioneering acoustic ecology composer Hildegard Westerkamp, whose life's work has transformed the way we think about sound, place, and our relationship with the environment. We explore what happens when we begin to hear the everyday world as music; the rhythms of cities, the voices of nature, the sounds we welcome and those we tune out. Hild
Listening with Annea Lockwood, Pioneering Composer (opens the original)
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What if listening doesn’t simply change what we hear, but determines how we understand and relate to the world around us? In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with pioneering composer Annea Lockwood to explore her lifelong fascination with sound, the environment, and the visceral ways we experience listening through our bodies. We talk about her belief that listening determines everything, her decades of listening to and recording rivers, and her understanding of rivers not s
Listening with Singing Rain and Laughing Owl, Indigenous leaders (opens the original)
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What if listening wasn't just something you do with your ears, but a way of connecting with the Earth, your ancestors, and every living thing? In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with Singing Rain and Laughing Owl of the Association of Native Americans of the Mid-Hudson Valley about oral tradition, listening to birds, trees, rocks, and ancestors, and the belief that every living thing has a voice. This conversation is about listening as relationship, memory, and a way of bel
Listening to the World: Stuart Fowkes on Field Recording, Sound Mapping & Cities and Memory (opens the original)
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Field recording, sound mapping, and soundscape storytelling are transforming how we experience the world. In this episode of Listening with China Blue , I speak with Stuart Fowkes , founder of Cities and Memory , one of the world's largest collaborative sound projects, bringing together more than 2,500 artists who remix the world one sound at a time. Since 2014, Stuart has built an extraordinary global archive of field recordings and creative reinterpretations from more than 100 countries. What
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