Ode to Sound
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
KP says sweet nothings about the great love of her life: SOUND.
A shared moment and meditation: recorded at 4AM in Athens Greece with the window open as the rain fell, gazing at the Athenian mountains aka: former home of the Gods. Use this episode like you would a meditation app: come back to it when you need a moment of peace. Take out the meditation pillow. Play it when you’re taking psychedelic drugs. Use it to relax during your break at work. Play it with a group of friends on a road trip. Play while you take a bath. Half ambient music, half guided meditation, half transcendental experience across the space-time continuum.
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In this episode:
Zeus [from KP: this was not staged. the moment I mentioned his name, he threw a thunderbolt and I happened to be recording. I share the moment AS IS.]
The apartment of the badass artist and feminist Doreen Toutikian (check out her work! For pix of her gorgeous pad: follow KP on insta @kaitlinprest).
An audience in LA singing with KP: the premiere of this performance, originally commissioned by the On Air Festival 2019. (thanks Scott and Jemma!).
An audience in Milan singing with KP: the reason she was in Europe! (thank you to the friends who came all the way to Milan to see the piece: Juj, Ali, Rosa, Ariel and Doreen. Thank you Sarah, Martina and Andrea from Chora Media, and to the opera singers who practiced in the conservatory as KP walked in to do her sound check).
Send us a recording of you singing along at hello@mermaidpalace.org!
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| 0:47.0 | From Athens, Greece, welcome, to the heart. I'm Caitlin pressed. I'm Caitlin pressed. I am sitting in a studio. |
| 1:00.0 | I am sitting in a studio room facing a wall of south facing windows look upon Athenian mountains and when I look at the mountains I wonder if those are in fact |
| 1:31.5 | the mountains the mountains that Zeus threw his thunderbolts from. Do you hear that? It's thunder. |
| 1:55.0 | thunder. |
| 1:58.0 | The window's open. |
| 2:00.0 | The window's open. |
| 2:02.0 | Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. |
| 2:08.3 | Yes, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. Yes. |
| 2:27.0 | Yes. Every once in a while on the heart we treat a podcast episode like not a podcast episode. |
| 2:46.9 | We treat it like some kind of weird art experience. |
| 2:58.8 | A tiny opening in the space-time continuum, a stage, a gallery, but one that exists in our mind, in our heart. |
| 3:05.0 | If you like guided meditation things, |
| 3:08.5 | or if you enjoy experimental ambient music. |
| 3:16.4 | If you enjoy chilling the fuck out, |
| 3:21.7 | you can listen to this in a classic meditation way, take out the meditation pillow. |
| 3:29.0 | You can listen to it the way that you listen to a Brianino song that you like, put it on in the |
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