The PAUSE
Radio show and podcast providing sanctuary for the wild ones. Ghosts Ari and Ash co-host a loosely scripted, surreal radio parody exploring cultural production in alignment with ecological intelligence in the multiverse of Knoxville. As visual, environmental, and musical artists, Ari and Ash practice emergent strategies experimenting with radio as art medium. Featuring improvised interviews, stories, and music, The PAUSE is both poetic and humorous inquiry into the sound of our voices in relation to the times and place we inhabit.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2025
Interview with Sparrow, Photographic Eye of an Artist
Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the disparate parts of our self and our extern…
The Residue of Pleasure (S1E8)
Ari and Ash compile clips from the first three episodes from Season One highlighting the developing relationship between them.
Previewed: Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the disparate parts of our self and our extern…
Pause Again Go There In Situ with Sarah Ledbetter
Ari and Sarah go there, again. They deepen their conversation around creative process and what place means in today's world of safety and risk, loose and contained.
French Version: Field Notes to The PAUSE episode "Shh Whack"
Whack hacks Field Notes to The PAUSE. Two unnamed voices from a remote sector of the multiverse explore the forest of the "Shh Whack" episode of The PAUSE radio show.
Field Notes to The PAUSE episode "Shh Whack"
Whack hacks Field Notes to The PAUSE. Two unnamed voices from a remote sector of the multiverse explore the forest of the "Shh Whack" episode of The PAUSE radio show.
Shh Whack (S1E6)
Ari and Ash randomize the preamble. Whack gets a promotion. Iron John initiates the youngster to the perils and pleasures of the golden well. The chatbots set hard limits and enforce forbidden parro…
Interview with Jill Frere, Mover of Wild Adventure
Join us as I pause with Jill Frere, movement artist, yoga teacher, Buddhist, and community activist among other talents, who previews her current dance work in the Shadows & Light show at the Knoxvil…
Interview with Sarah Ledbetter, Wild Weaver of Webs
Sarah Ledbetter is a highly creative and insightful somatic therapist as well as movement artist and writer currently based in Nashville, originally from Memphis. Our wild conversation offers glimp…
Subversive (S1E5)
Ash restates the original 2024 poetic essay of The PAUSE as an invitation from the present tense expressing more spontaneity in the face of an unstable table. The show was recorded on Friday, 23 May …
Interview with Davis Saul, Tales of the Desert Mouse
Davis Saul is on a spiritual journey toward a more authentic way of being, nontraditional in terms of modern values, traditional in terms of more ancient values. He shares a recent story of being swi…
John's Cage (S1E4)
Ari and Ash delve into the cultural construction of the cage. What would have happened if the parrot Whack was also forced to cohabitate with Iron John. Ari opens up for the first time publicly about…
Sun Heart Breath Meditation with Jabbarah
Excerpted from the initial interview of The PAUSE--Jabbarah guides us through the Sun Heart Breath meditation.
Embryonic (S1E3)
Ari and Ash discover the studio has been re-wilded. The Plastic Parrot transforms into the Painted Parrot. The Prince loses his prized possession. The caged Iron John negotiates a deal with the Prin…
Unresolved (S1E2)
Ari and Ash delve deeper into the forest of Iron John narrative. Plastic Parrot enters the radio station studio. The spirit of Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum movement practice, surfaces. The poo…
Interview with Maura Manzo, Yogi of Ambler
I share wild time with Maura Manzo, a yogi, business leader, community activist, and founder of Camaraderie Yoga, in the suburban Philadelphia town of Ambler, Pennsylvania
Interview with Stephen Otis, When Spider Weaves Delight
Knox Forest School co-founder, teacher, and environmentalist, Stephen Otis and I share wild time re-envisioning creativity, education, nature, and story sharing.
Rebirthing Iron Jane (S1E1)
Invoking the mythopoetic journey of deconstructing the Grimm Brothers' Iron John ("Der Eisenhans") into Iron Jane via an ecologically disruptive and co-creative inquiry into story, commentary, music,…
Interview with Jabbarah, Changer of Names
Learn what's wild with Andrea Jacobson and her recent name change to Jabbarah. Learn why and what's important about changing names. Learn and practice her version of the Sun Heart breath to bring mor…