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Counterflows At Home

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Counterflows At Home podcast series

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The Ghost Tunes Podcast - Episode Two Who Are You From?

October 20, 2023 15:26 - 34 minutes - 78.8 MB

Who are you from and where is your country? In June 2023 the artists from the Ghost Tunes project met face to face in Western Australia for the first time to discuss identity, race, country and the power of listening. In this second episode of the podcast we hear excerpts from a series of conversations between the Scottish and Australian artists Cass Ezeji, Cass Lynch, Theresa Sainty, Mei Swan Lim and Josie Vallely as they reflect on the themes of the residency. We follow their journey as th...

The Ghost Tunes Podcast - Episode One Finding the Words

October 20, 2023 15:13 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB

The Ghost Tunes Podcast Episode One - Finding the words What does it mean to reclaim a lost language? Language revitalisation has been a part of a process of decolonisation in both Scotland and Australia, but the history of a language can be complex and contested. In this first episode of the podcast we hear from four artists from Ghost Tunes who speak minority languages. How is language tied to landscape? What does it mean to belong to the land? What does it mean to be on someone else...

'It's Not by the Details': Park Jiha and Roy Claire Potter in conversation

June 06, 2022 14:52 - 19 minutes - 21.8 MB

Why do some collaborations work so well? South Korean musician Park Jiha first met English artist and writer Roy Claire Potter for a collaboration session by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction in 2020. This time they reunited on stage at Glasgow’s community central halls for the opening night of Counterflows 2022 and focused their improvisation around a series of photos which Jiha had sent Roy in advance. The photos were snapshots of Jiha’s everyday life in Korea: a cake she had baked; cat paws pok...

Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change

April 12, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 30 MB

Susie Ibarra and Michele Koppes present a podcast of soundscapes and stories in Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change. Water Rhythms is the story of climate change as told by the ice and water. It is the acoustic story of our entanglements with a changing climate and changing landscapes of our own making. Through Water Rhythms, we invite listeners into more embodied ways of understanding how we are inextricably connected to the Earth’s freshwater, by bringing sound, music and science to...

Quinie: Nawken

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes - 62.1 MB

This is a 2 part podcast exploring the cultural context of Nawken (Scottish Traveller) song traditions and their links with wider social justice struggles for Scottish Travellers. This is part of a wider piece of work that me and Davie have been doing looking at the relationships between Nawken cultural ‘outputs’ (song/storytelling/craft) and access to sites. Davie Donaldson is Nawken.

Thefuries: Requiem for Survivors

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 31 MB

What are the sonic manifestations of trauma? In this podcast the artist and musician Thefuries explores how the experiences of sexual violence can manifest in sound and in the act of listening. We hear their journey through the making of a series of intensely personal pieces for Counterflows At Home, including the making of several bells and exploring how the idea of the bell resonates as both alarm or announcement. Thefuries culminates in five pieces of music which cycle through some of th...

Yan Jun: It's Not Music

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 43.5 MB

Yan Jun lives in Beijing. He writes poetry, makes music and works with sound. A few years ago he noticed a group of other artists in the city who, like himself, had begun making performances which slipped past easy definition. These could take the form of one person having a conversation with their mum on the phone on stage, an audience member disassembling a mandolin or a woman eating an apple. There was a playfulness at the core of this scene which wasn’t interested in manifestos or compar...

Edward George: Kuduro: Electronic Music of Angola

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB

Kuduro is the electronic dance music of a generation born and raised during Angola's traumatic and protracted civil war. It started life on Angola's margins, in the clubs and ghettos of the nation's capital, Luanda, but its influence can be heard in Angolan hip hop, R&B, and techno. In the twenty-first century Kuduro is the official, state sanctioned international sound of young, post-war Angola. Broadcaster and music obsessive Edward George takes us on a journey through the social history ...

Nakul Krishnamurthy & Nrithya Pillai: Reimagining Ramayana

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

""I am from a Brahminical background. Nrithya comes from a marginalised community. So, how do we work out those politics?"" The composer and singer Nakul Krishnamurthy embarks on an ambitious project with the dancer and activist Nrithya Pillai. Can they successfully navigate caste politics and class-based structures, the reimagining of an Indian epic, the subversion of a ""classical"" art form... and a physical distance of over six thousand miles? This podcast goes behind-the-scenes of their...

Quinie: Conyach

April 01, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 58.5 MB

This is a 2 part podcast exploring the cultural context of Nawken (Scottish Traveller) song traditions and their links with wider social justice struggles for Scottish Travellers. This is part of a wider piece of work that me and Davie have been doing looking at the relationships between Nawken cultural ‘outputs’ (song /storytelling/craft) and access to sites. Davie Donaldson is Nawken.

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March 16, 2021 13:13 - 1 minute - 2.65 MB

Counterflows At Home podcast series