Listening with China Blue

In this podcast hear from Hudson Valley's, Laura Kuhn, Executive Director of the John Cage Foundation who speaks about her relationship with Cage, his understanding of silence and the importance of intentionality.

Kuhn helped to establish the John Cage Trust, shortly after the composer’s death in 1992. in 1968 he began working with Cage on a variety of large-scale projects, completing her doctoral dissertation on Cage’s “Europeras” ...

In my podcast "Listening with China Blue" hear from the interspecies musician and professor David Rothenberg, who explores if bird songs are music, why birds sing at dawn, and how the beauty of whale music got the world to care.

David Rothenberg, is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and...

Hear from Bjorn Eriksson, Composer who speaks about the early years of Deep Listening and creating works that are based by 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 ...

Hear from Dame Evelyn Glennie the world's premier solo percussionist who speaks about how she respects the sound and that "listening needs space and time."

Dame Evelyn Glennie is the world’s premier solo percussionist. Her solo recordings exceed 40 CDs. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee, Evelyn composes for film, theatre and television. The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 a...

Hear from Michael Reiley, a meditation teacher, a Sound Songha producer and a Deep Listening professor speak about listening as a mindfulness tool.

Michael Reiley is a producer, therapeutic musician, and meditation teacher focused on helping others to awaken their innate capacity to listen and resonate with the interconnected web of inner and outer soundscapes. Michael Reiley has dedicated more than two decades to a prolific career...

Hear from Heloise Gold about her contribution of movement in the development of Deep Listening. She states: "When people are in a safe place beauty arises."

Heloise Gold is a performing artist, dancer, choreographer and T’ai Chi/Qi Gong instructor. She was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2015, for recognition of her extensive and continuous career as a performer and creator. Additionally, she is the co-founder of “Art...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. He is an educator, musician and international speaker on peace and the global issues facing Native peoples. Tiokasin has a long history in Indigenous activism and advocacy. As a 15 year old he spoke at the United Nations in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the internationally syndicated “First Voices...

Want to hear from Kingston, NY's Mayor Noble about how listening is a Kingston culture, how it inspired the creation of a mental health ambulance and the city's development of an art plaza for people to reflect and create a community? The Pauline Oliveros Plaza will include 70 units of housing, commercial space, retail storefronts and a courtyard for people to come together and enjoy the beauty of art with 70 families living aroun...

Want to hear from the the Director of the Center for Deep Listening, Stephanie Loveless and what listening means to her?

Professor Stephanie Loveless is also the Director of the Center for Deep Listening. She is also a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. Her recent projects include a mobile web-app for geo-located listening, and sound works that channel the voices of plants, animals, and ...

In this episode China Blue speaks with the neurobiologist, Dr. Nina Kraus about how the hearing brain is vast and integrated with our other senses.

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., heads the auditory Neuroscience Lab Brainvolts and is a professor at Northwestern University. She is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was ...

In this episode China Blue speaks with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra conductor Timothy Myers about his job listening and communicating without words to an orchestra.

Timothy Myers is one of America’s most versatile conductors, engaging collaborators, and innovative purveyors of ideas. A frequent collaborator with leading opera companies and orchestras, he is internationally acclaimed for his eloquence, energy, command, and unbridle...

In this episode I speak with Adam Schartoff of FilmWax Radio. Filmwax Radio is a podcast that features luminaries from the indie film community. His guests include actors, filmmakers, festival programmers, journalists and just about anyone else with a stake in the game. It captivates listeners because they are treated to engaging and nuanced conversations from his guests.

Hosted by Adam Schartoff, Filmwax Radio began in 2011 and ha...

In this episode I talk with Alvin Eng the author of "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond." He tells us about his experience living in a home where Chinese and English were both heard, how that defined his love for rock and roll and shaped his writing.

Alvin Eng is a native NYC playwright, memoirist, performer, acoustic punk rock raconteur and educator. His plays and performa...

Mia Lobel is a veteran audio producer, manager, and educator who has spent her career championing creativity, diversity and character-driven storytelling.

She has worked with the best writers, journalists and intellectuals to help them achieve their vision in sound.

She was the Managing Producer & Lead Producer for Malcolm Gladwell’s "Revisionist History." As VP of content and production for his Pushkin Industries company she ove...

Norman Lowrey is a mask maker / composer / performance sound video artist and Professor Emeritus of Music at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music. He is the originator of Singing Masks. The masks, ceramic, carved wood, leather and virtual, incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets, electronics and other sounding devices. Each mask has a unique voice. They have been exhibited in Ea...

David Amram is a distinguished composer who composed the scores for many films including "Pull My Daisy" (1959) considered one of the most important experimental films of the 20th century, "Splendor In The Grass" (1960) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). He composed the scores for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare In The Park from 1956-1967 and premiered his comic opera "12th Night" with Papp's libretto. He also wrote a second opera, "...

Lisa Kelley is a vocalist, performance artist and mother residing in Kingston, NY. Steeped in traditional theater, vocal and performance studies in her youth, Lisa’s creative process continues to revolve around investigations of identity, musical genres and styles, dream action theater, her family’s immigration memories from the Philippines, universal archetypes, Eastern philosophy and a recognition of the metaphysical and spiritua...

In this episode we will hear from the Columbian born and UK residing sound artist Dr. Ximena Alarcón Díaz. She is a sound and listening artist-researcher exploring embodied forms of sensing place and telepresence to listen to and sound collectively our sonic migrations. She speaks about how migration and geographical changes alters the sense of bodily placement and leads to dislocation. She also addresses the idea of relational lis...

Daniel Weintraub is a Director, Producer and Editor. His most recent feature length documentary "Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros", is currently screening all over the world and garnering Weintraub best director accolades. Daniel also created documentary and experimental shorts on the work of Oliveros; "Don’t Call Them Lady Composers", and "Montage for Improvisors" which were shown in museums and festivals in CA, NY, U...