Summary
From the texture of silence to sonic disappearances, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the soundscapes we inhabit.
Omissa Oloisaan Produced by Miyuki Jokiranta
A Moonlit Memory Featuring Salma Ahmed Caller Sounds from YleArkisto, reinsamba, Benboncan, Julius_galla, Straget, FaireDesVagues and SoundLover16 on freesound.org Produced by Taqwa Sadiq
Sacha Taki Featuring Jonathan Grefa, president of the Ancestral Kichwa Population of Kawsak Sacha (PAKKS - https://pakks.org.ec/), Rosa Santi, Education and Health Coordinator of PAKKS, Dr. Paola Moscoso, Director of Voces del Bosque and Graciela Tupay (singer) With thanks to Amaru Grefa, External communication and media of PAKKS, Pastor Inmunda, ex-president of PAKKS, Didier Lacaze, Director of Sacha Warmi. Rosa Canelos, Sacha Warmi, Dr. Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex, Gustavo Chiriboga, Voces del Bosque, Sozapato With recordings from Voces del Bosque https://www.vocesdelbosque.com/?lang=en Produced by Mickal Aranha
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.6 | Today's episode is all about the sound worlds all around you. |
| 0:13.3 | And I hope you can go on a little expedition to listen to this in a forest full of birds, |
| 0:17.4 | or sit cross-legged on the grass and hear the insects rustling at your feet |
| 0:21.3 | and the leaves swishing above you. And if not, I hope you can turn on YouTube and play a video |
| 0:26.3 | entitled Bird Sounds. I've never seen a sky like that. This is shortcuts. More stars than sky |
| 0:36.8 | and falling stars. Brief encounters, true stories, |
| 0:41.9 | radio adventures and found sound. You are in your own existence. In other words, you have |
| 0:51.2 | the peace and quiet that nothing disturbs you. |
| 0:55.0 | Today, soundscape. |
| 0:59.0 | Everything is a life and everything has a soul. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to start by plunging into silence. |
| 1:11.4 | What's one sound you can hear that's really close to you right now? |
| 1:18.6 | Maybe it's just the sound of your own breath. |
| 1:23.8 | What's the sound you can hear that's about as far away as possible to hear? |
| 1:32.3 | Words are such a small part of how we understand the world. |
| 1:37.3 | Miyuki Yokiranta, a Finnish Australian, lives between languages and is learning to live between words. My aunt sits on the end of the jetty at the lake. |
| 2:08.7 | She says she likes watching the Kimalus, the glittering of the sun on the water. |
| 2:14.0 | But her eyes are resting on the nothing of middle distance. |
| 2:18.3 | The air settled around her. |
| 2:21.3 | I turn away to go find the others for a game of dance. |
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