Porch Swing Orchestra Podcast
PSO is an art project that pairs music recorded outside with photographs made on-site. Performed and recorded at home and away, solo and with others – birds, guitars, and passing cars conspire to form ephemeral spontaneous compositions.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
no.214 | Leafy Pecans and Cicada Sing-a-Long
This week’s pod and music-only YouTube stream feature selections from PSO’s recent live event celebrating the release of our collaborative EP with the Reformers (now streaming and on Bandcamp). We ha…
no. 213 | PSO + The Reformers Split EP
Alex Kannan and Gavin Watts of the Reformers join PSO conductor, Barry Stone, for an interview about their music and influences on the occasion of the release of the Porch Swing Orchestra + The Refor…
no.212 | Quilted Daze and Delays
This episode begins with the newest PSO, no.212, which was recorded in the traditional manner on my porch but with a twist. After spending some time in Mark Menjivar’s studio talking about field reco…
no.211 | I + Bird + Music Create a Universe the Size of a Bathtub
Porch Swing Orchestra is an art project that pairs music recorded outside with photographs made on-site. Performed and recorded at home and away, solo and with others – birds, guitars, and trucks con…
Enter the Cosmos
On this podcast and subsequent episodes, Every two weeks or so, I will share the most recent PSO piece and follow that with about 20 minutes of pieces randomly selected from the archives.
This week b…