Hello there Kiddos. This is Sound.out.Radio. I’ve got a real treat for you all today. Welcome to our first edition of Music for Animals. And I don’t mean just animals. We’ve got music for moss, moon jellyfish, Lamprocapnos spectabilis, ghost pipes, and of course the usual suspects, bats, raccoons, wolves and grey whales, new tunes from some beautiful human beings.
First up we have sound poems by Ryan Fisher, who was inspired by bats, Max Marsh giving us some sonic insight into moon jelly fish, Grace Wark’s soundscape dedicated to bleeding heart plants, followed by Suzy Moss on what else, moss.
Wow, where am I? Sounds great so far. We just heard a few more from Journey Rain-King Howden and her hummingbird soundscape which featured some fantastic guitar, Alia Masonsmith asking all the questions to salmon, Gabe Rubanowitz on his relations to black capped chickadees, and Lani Suyama atmospheric sounds on phytoplancton, that provide 50 - 80% of the worlds oxygen! Tiny and mighty.
Let’s round out the mix with a few more starting with Georgia Van dines ode to the tree frog, Tilly Bishop on the banana slug, Georgia Gehard’s watery work on the octopus, Steph Lasater’s surprising piece on the Wolf, what was once native to Washington state and is making a comeback, Aiko Enomoto’s soundscape about our raccoon cousins, a sound poem about ghost pipes by Nevin Wolfe-Sallouti, and finally, a remarkable piece about grey whales and the African diaspara by Hadley Hudson.
Thanks everyone for your research and creative work on this first episode of Music for Animals. Listen for it late, 2AM and 5PM almost everyday. Till next time, just listen…..