conscient podcast
I’m on a break from hosting and producing conscient podcast and balado conscient until early 2026 with my 7th season featuring a mix of conversations, roundtables, documentaries and narrations of my ‘a calm presence’ Substack. I will also regularly publish ENCORE episodes. Subscriptions are always free. Comments and questions are always welcome: [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
e145 bear - what do you think about grieving our dying planet and sitting with this sadness?
when I got up on September 25th 2023, while searching for my glasses in the dark, I touched a little mechanical bear
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
Vancouver, September 25, 2023.
You can…
e144 drifting - can you go with the flow?
while drifting on a river in a kayak i listened
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
(kayak drifting on a river)
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CREDITS
One of my ‘happy places’ in life is drifting down a river on a kayak. It…
e143 defeatism - what are you not ready to see?
I felt defeated by the ecological crisis, and by myself, so I created an episode about defeatism hoping to defeat my defeatism
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and voice)
Note: [ ] = filtered voice
I g…
e142 consent - do keep listening
i asked a forest for permission to record it and got a response from a tree
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
(Wind in forest soundscape)
Today's episode is a fictional conversation between …
bonus episode - unlearning through sound
This episode is a recording of a presentation I gave on October 6, 2023 about my ‘Sounding Modernity’ project to the XI International Symposium on Soundscape, organized by the FKL-Forum Klanglandscha…
e141 filature - what does gatineau sound like?
a bilingual soundwalk with city of Gatineau councillor (Hull-Wright) Steven Moran around ‘la filature’ for radio-hull 2023
TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE (this episode is a mix of English and French, below is …
e140 saturation - how can we tap into our boundless streams of love, connection and meaning?
my response to a colleague’s concern about feeling saturated by the omni presence of eco-awareness information
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
(sound of two climate shows at once then fade ou…
e139 stream - this episode. Is about listening. to this stream. for 5 minutes. enjoy.
while introducing a 5 minute recording of a bubbly stream I realized that the stream was flowing within me
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
(In a hushed voice)
This episode..
(silence)
is about…
e138 rouge - fishy, where are you?
a soundscape composition about soundscape composition at Rouge National Urban Park in Toronto
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(Bell and breath)
(various field recordings from rouge national urban park)
Me (at …
e137 ritardando - do slowing down sounds slow you down?
i’ve always been comforted and relaxed by sounds that gradually slow down
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
Slowing down sounds slow me down
(layering of slowing down soundscape compositions fro…
e136 electricity - are. you. powerless?
I improvised a story during a power outage at the cottage about sound without electricity
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
(bell and breath)
It's Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. Yesterday, at 4.53 pm, the power wen…
e135 layers - how do you feel now?
i played back four episodes from this season at the same time and listened to how they interact
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(bell and breath)
Episode 105 stretches time
(e105 ropes)
Episode 101 releases ten…
e134 drops - are you a drop of water?
one morning I heard rhythmic water dripping from a gutter and improvised this poem
(bell and breath)
(Voice synchronized to sound of water drop)
I am a drop of water
I am a drop of rain
I am your body
I am…
e133 deconstruction - how can you constructively deconstruct?
while doing my qi gong one morning I heard roofers removing tiles and recalled simplesoundscape in 2016…
TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE
(bell + sound of roofers taking off tiles)
While doing my daily qi gong on …
e132 slow - how does the pace of speech relate to the sound of modernity?
my zen practice taught me that unhurried speech invites us to slow down
EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
(bell and breath)
When I was a student at the White Wind Zen Community in Ottawa I had the privilege of list…
e131 modernity - are you modernity?
an exercise where I invite listeners to stop what they are doing, listen and to enjoy the experience
(unedited improvised narration)
Listening is at the heart of this season of the conscient podcast. S…
e130 fiction - what stories do you want to hear?
a quote from robin parmar about speculative fiction that raises some questions
(bell and breath)
I love the sound of leaves dancing on hard surfaces.
(sound of a leaf blowing)
It’s poetic and kinetic an…
e117 portrait of robin mathews (bonus episode)
Here is another bonus episode, this one is called 'Portrait of Robin Mathews'. It is 3 part unpublished radio program I created in 2005 in collaboration with Robin based on an interview I recorded wi…
e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?
e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?
(bell and breath)
Every July 18th is World Listening Day. It’s also composer and acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer’s birthday. R…
e128 revisited - what does decolonized listening sound like to you?
(bell and breath)
(movement 1 of vancouver soundscape revisited, eagle)
You’re listening to the first movement, eagle, of my 1996 soundscape composition, vancouver soundscape revisited.
I describe the p…