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Common Unity Ulster

Cultivating the Next Generation with Ravin Williams of Place Corps

Listening with China Blue

Season 2 Episode 1 Listening With Ron Whitehead, US National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate

Season 2 Episode 1

Listening With Ron Whitehead, US National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate

abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast

Season 3 Bonus | In Which I Let You Go at an Abandoned Security Gatehouse (Schrade Cutlery Factory - Ellenville, NY)

On the one-year anniversary of his best friend Julie’s death, Blake makes his way to the ruins of the Schrade Cutlery Factory in Ellenville, NY.

Listening with China Blue

Listening With John Yau, Esteemed Art Critic, Poet and Author

In "Listening with China Blue" hear from Esteemed Art Critic, Poet and Author John Yau, speak about listening to artists like: painter, Ed Moses who spoke about his gestures as animations, Jasper Johns’ experience about describing his famous Flag painting and Duchamp’s quote about artists not interested in listening.

Common Unity Ulster

The Importance of Community in Making Real Change with Stephanie Kearns - United Way of Ulster County

Listening with China Blue

Episode #23 Listening With Eric Lewis, Professor of Music

Hear from Professor Eric Lewis who speaks about how "silence is an action" and his relationship to composer Pauline Oliveros.

Eric Lewis is a professor of Philosophy at McGill University, specializing in the philosophy of improvised art, and Black Aesthetics. He is the author of five books, and numerous other publications. He is also on the management team of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, and the Toolkit of Care. He is the director of The Laboratory of Urban Culture, and co-founder and President of Arts in the Margins.

Eric is also an active improviser on brass and reeds, and is a member of Tone Reve, The Free Jazz Messengers, the Tuned Air Trio and the Instant Synthesis Ensemble. He also runs the annual new media art residency Koumaria, Greece.

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Episode #22 Listening With Laura Kuhn, Former Director of the John Cage Trust

Kuhn helped to establish the John Cage Trust, shortly after the composer’s death in 1992. In 1968, she began working with Cage on a variety of large-scale projects, completing her doctoral dissertation on Cage’s “Europeras” in 1992. In 2007, Kuhn became the first John Cage Professor of Performance Art at Bard College. Additionally, she has lectured and conducted performance workshops in venues as diverse as the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art. Current Executive Director of the John Cage Trust: Jeffrey Lependorf.
Kuhn helped to establish the John Cage Trust, shortly after the composer’s death in 1992. In 1968, she began working with Cage on a variety of large-scale projects, completing her doctoral dissertation on Cage’s “Europeras” in 1992. In 2007, Kuhn became the first John Cage Professor of Performance Art at Bard College. Additionally, she has lectured and conducted performance workshops in venues as diverse as the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art.

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Episode #21 Listening With David Rothenberg, Interspecies Musician and professor

In this podcast, hear from the Hudson Valley, interspecies musician and professor David Rothenberg, who explores if bird songs are music, why birds sing at dawn, and how whale music got the world to care.

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Episode #20 Listening With Bjorn Eriksson, Composer & Deep Listening Leader

In my podcast listen to Bjorn Eriksson a composer who talks about the early years of Deep Listening and creating works that are based on listening and conducting in the moment.
Mr. Eriksson is a sound artist, improvisor and composer. He makes electronic music, composes and performs with among others Norrbotten Improvisers Orchestra, Aleatoriska Ensemblen as well as AOM (Avatar Orchestra Metaverse) and DVN-EAO. He is a teacher of sound art, music and sound at Hola folkhögskola, Sweden. He is a Certified Deep Listening® teacher/facilitator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.