Flowcast | A Music & Science podcast

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Tim Waterfield is the man behind the Karhide project who, together with Rafael Diogo’s Deep Dive Sound, created Lo-fi River Flow for our project.

On top of making music he’s always very busy creating ways...

Giuseppe Cordaro is a sound sculptor and field recordist based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. His practice sits between attentive documentary listening and abstraction — drawn to places where sound behaves like matter, where a landscape can be heard as a living score, and where a recording becomes not an illustration of a site but its afterimage.

Giuseppe treated the field recording as his entire palette — foreground, environm...

Heather Spence is a marine biologist, musician, and composer based in Washington, DC, who spends much of her research life recording and interpreting underwater soundscapes, work with dolphins and coral reefs among it. Her music draws directly from that world, built around natural sound and what she describes as a celebration of listening to the natural world and finding our place in it. For Flow, that practice found an unexpected ...

TYΦA are Laura Jean Cameron and Matt Rogalsky, a duo based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Laura Jean is a sonic geographer and professor at Queen’s University; Matt is a composer and sound artist who leads the Sonic Arts Studio at the same institution. Their practice begins with cattails — the marsh plant whose scientific name, Typha, gives the duo its name — hand-woven into cordage strings that are plucked, bowed,...

Paweł is a musician and sound artist based in Southampton, UK, who records and performs under the name Canis Arboris. His practice moves between electro-acoustic composition, field recording, and a quiet attentiveness to the way places, objects, and time leave traces in sound.

For Flow, he worked on Segment 11 of the River Lech — the stretch passing through Füssen, where the river crosses from Austria into Germany and leaves t...

In this episode we’re talking with Daina Dieva, an artist and anthropologist working between sound, video, performance, and ethnographic fieldwork. Her PhD research, conducted at the University of Tartu, took her to the Roya Valley, on the French-Italian border, in the aftermath of Storm Alex, the storm that tore through the region in 2020. She arrived the following summer, when the debris had mostly been cleared but the dama...

Michael Northam is an American sound artist based in Chino Valley, Arizona, who has been exploring sound-as-art across more than 30 countries for the past 30 years. He describes his practice as “composting sounds” — re-framing surroundings through a combination of natural sound phenomena, synthesis, and found objects to create location-based work that slows down time and listens deeper to what he calls the mysteri...

Rocío Colonizt is a sound designer and field recordist based in General Roca, in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. She holds a degree in Sound Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Audiovisual Arts, and works primarily in sound design for film, video art, and video games — alongside a practice in field recording and soundscape composition.

She grew up ten kilometres from the Río Negro, the river that gives both her provinc...

Jorge Martínez Valderrama is a Mexican composer and sound artist based in Mexico City. His background is in classical composition, string quartets, chamber ensembles, the discipline of writing for live instruments, but he has moved steadily toward acousmatic work, where fixed media and field recording become the primary material. For Jorge, a recording is never a neutral act. Where to point a microphone, when to press record, what ...

Nick Kuepfer is a musician, field recordist, and sound designer based in Montreal, Canada. His practice moves between nylon string and electric guitar, live-sampled tape loops, field recordings, and analog processing — a methodical, vigilant experimentalism guided by the search for consonance and dissonance with the sounds of the natural world. He has recorded the intimate sounds of Alaska’s permafrost thawing, glacial ...

Lisa Rae Bartolomei is a composer and sound artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound, often using transformation as both method and metaphor — taking a source material and pulling it so far from its origins that something entirely new emerges in its place.

For Flow, she worked on Segment 6 of the River Lech — the hanging bridge at Forchach, a stunning su...

Karhide and Deep Dive Sound collaborated on Segment 20 of the River Lech, near Königsbrunn — a channelised stretch dammed for hydropower, heavily modified, and without restoration plans. The same paradox that struck Elissa Goodrich in the same segment: a landscape shaped entirely by human intervention that has nonetheless become a refuge for nature.

But where most artists stayed close to the River Lech, Rafa was in Africa when...

Tim Wojcik is a media and sound artist based in Weimar, Germany. His practice moves between electroacoustic composition, field recording, and a form of deep listening that he describes as meditative — a way of being present with a landscape rather than simply documenting it.

For Flow, he worked on Segment 10 of the River Lech — the Lech Falls, near Füssen, where the river passes through a gorge that may have given the ci...

Steffi Baron-Neuhuber is a musician and sound artist based in Pöchlarn, Austria. Her practice moves between improvisation, electronic music, and a deep attentiveness to the sonic qualities of place — listening not just to what a landscape sounds like, but to what it might be trying to say.

For Flow, she worked on Segment 17 of the River Lech, near Pitzling — the same stretch as Gretchen Jude, though the two arrived at en...

Cara Kelly is a composer and sound artist from Galway, Ireland. Her practice lives at what she calls the threshold — of sound, language, technology, folklore, myth, and poetry — and her approach to composition is rooted in research, respect for the source material, and a sensitivity to the hidden connections between things.

When she encountered the River Lech, she noticed a linguistic thread connecting her native Irish t...

There is a particular kind of silence that concrete makes around water. Not absence of sound, but a different quality of presence — the echo of walls, the hum of engineered constraint. When Paco Maddalena, an Italian ambient and experimental music producer, first listened to the field recording from Segment 19 of the River Lech, that echo was what he heard first. Not the water itself, but the structure surrounding it.

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Amanda Stuart is a composer and sound artist based in Cambridge, UK. Her work moves between contemporary composition, vocal performance, and sonic exploration of landscape — often at the point where the human and the non-human meet.

For Flow, she worked on Segment 5 of the River Lech — one of the most extraordinary stretches of the entire river, and one of the few remaining wild riverine landscapes in the Northern Alps. ...

Max Greening is an artist and sound designer based in Vancouver, Canada. His practice moves between sound, installation, and conceptual art — often exploring how meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and shaped by context.

For Flow, he worked on Segment 24 of the River Lech — the final stretch before the river merges with the Danube, described in the field recording notes as the Lech’s quiet goodbye. But Max didn&...

Suzi Lamb and Nicky Rushton are musicians and long-standing collaborators based in Berlin and Newcastle. Their work together has always been rooted in a sensitivity to place, to the layered histories that accumulate in landscapes and the sounds that carry them forward.

For Flow, they worked on Segment 22 of the River Lech — the stretch running through the heart of Augsburg, one of the oldest continuously settled cities in Germ...