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Episode 6 - Two from South Asia

Victoria Fenner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:23:31 +0000

Victoria revisits her trip to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and plays two of her favourite docs.

00:00 - Intro, welcome

2:45 - Medicinal Herbs - traditional herbs are being harvested, providing health and economic solutions for some of South India's poorest rural people.

7:52 - A celebration of the begining of Dasain, the high holy days in Nepal in September. Victoria visits Falcha, a gathering place for social transformation in Patan City, Nepal.

Produced originally for The Green Planet Monitor, with the assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency and the Canadian Autoworkers Social Justice Fund. 2007. Executive Producer - Dave Kattenburg - Earth Chronicle Productions

Episode 5 - Meeting Place - Parliament Hill

Victoria Fenner — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:50:34 +0000

A Day in the Life of Parliament Hill:

10 am - The Changing of the Guard - because the Queen liked it and so do the tourists

noon - The Protests (because our MPs are on lunch - no point yelling at them when they're in The House yelling at each other)

3:00 - Question Period - when they REALLY yell at each other. Yes, I had some fun with this piece.

"Meeting Place" is part of the Capital Resoundings Suite, an extensive project where I recorded, wrote about, and composed poems from the Ottawa soundscape at the turn of the Millenium.

Thanks to the Region of Ottawa Carleton for their financial support of this project.

Episode 4 - Soundwalking

Victoria Fenner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:45:23 +0000

1:13 - what is a soundwalk, influences, Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project

4:26 - Andra McCartney, sound artist and soundwalker - soundwalks as meditation

7:22 - Styles of Soundwalks

10:12 - Dave Kattenburg of The Green Planet Monitor soundwalks the Sin Strip in Phuket (caution:a reference to Big Boobs .. but otherwise tame)

14:44 - how to do your own soundwalk

Episode 3 - Three Squares on the Tundra

Victoria Fenner — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:24:28 +0000

1:56 - Stocking up at the SuperCentre in Edmonton

3:00 - at the airport -- eggs are not convenient as carryon

4:00 - good food on Canadian North Airlines (should be for $1500 return from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay)

4:54 - grocery shopping and pricing food at the Co-op

6:30 - Big Macs (naked! .. the Big Mac, that is. Not us)

8:40 - a cookware party! And lots of food survival tips.

13:10 - I don't think I'll miss eating Muktuk ..it's kinda yucky ..

17:08 - Epilogue and restaurant suggestions in Yellowknife (Bullock's Bistro - best fresh water fish I've ever tasted)

The Roaming Ear - Episode 2 - The Edge of Extreme

Victoria Fenner — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:40:04 +0000

In September of 2003, Victoria Fenner and her partner Barry Rueger were invited to come up to Cambridge Bay and help the volunteers develop their radio station CFBU. This piece explores some of the sounds outside the radio station .. the wind, the water, the air raid siren, ATVs, the howling dogs, planes, local musicians and much more.

These are a few of my favorite sounds - episode 1

meagan perry — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:09:19 +0000

Victoria picks her favorite memories from over 20 years as a radio producer and field recording technician. Stories abound.

Her ears are well tuned to hear the world in a surprising way. She doesn't just present the sounds as she hears them. She turns them into documentaries. Most people travel with a camera. Victoria travels with her microphone too. With over 20 years as a radio producer and field recording tech, sound poems and audio portraits of a world alive with sound.