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The Roaming Ear Episode 11: Looking Down the Street

Victoria Fenner — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:33:34 +0000

Victoria Fenner begins by talking about some of the new directions her podcasts are going to be taking, followed by her piece Looking Down the Street, commissioned by the community arts project Working Jewish Family Stories and Treasures in Hamilton, Ontario.

Victoria composed four pieces in this suite. They were part of a gallery installation at You Me Gallery, James Street North in Hamilton which also featured videos, writings and visual art works.

Victoria's work was imaginatively displayed in an old fashioned radio with four sets of headphones attached to the wall behind it. Inside the radio were four mp3 players which played the sound. People visiting the art exhibit were invited to sit on comfy living room couches to listen.

episode_11_looking_down_the_street.mp3

The Roaming Ear, episode 10: Street Music Manifesto

Victoria Fenner — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:38:31 +0000

Victoria Fenner's ideal streetscape includes music.

"Street Music Manifesto" is part of the project Soul of the Street, a project of The Factory Media Arts Centre in Hamilton, about arrival, displacement and transformation on James Street North, the city's oldest street.

Victoria composed five different series of audio pieces for SOS, which were installed in wooden boxes with headphones along the street.

She chose street music as a theme because she wanted listeners to think about streetscapes in other parts of the world to those in North American cities, especially Hamilton.

Episode 10 Street Music Manifesto.mp3

The Roaming Ear - Episode 9 - 'Fair Trade crafts''

Victoria Fenner — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:31:21 +0000

When you're on vacation, the low prices of weavings, jewellry and other crafts is tempting. But how do we make sure we aren't getting a bargain at the expense of somebody else?

A replay from The Green Planet Monitor Radio Series where Victoria visits a craft market in Antigua, Guatemala with David Barth of World Accord; and to a mountain village to meet with Mayan craftswomen. Back in Canada, she gets some perspectives from Ten Thousand Villages and Latin Treasures in Hamilton.

Episode 9 Fair Trade crafts.mp3

The Roaming Ear - Episode 8 - "Christo, las flautos y The Chicken Bus"

Victoria Fenner — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:50:47 +0000

A collection of some of Victoria's favourite sounds from Honduras and Guatemala. Chickens, birds, kids, really noisy birds, raking coffee and a Lenten pageant complete with monks, grotesque statuary and sousaphones.

The Roaming Ear - Central America #1 final.mp3

Episode 7 - Portraits of Appalachia

Victoria Fenner — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:04:55 +0000

From the place where southeast Kentucky meets Southwest Virginia, an audio portrait of the twisting, curving roads of the Central Appalachians and the surprises you can hear when you surrender to the (almost) eventuality of getting lost. And a conversation with Katie Dollarhide, a strong, beautiful mountain woman who has lived near Whitesburg Kentucky all her life.

3:55 - You Can't Miss It - a circular audio map that bears no resemblance to maps and roadside signs. More like a map of a state of being.

13:24 - Conversation with Katie Dollarhide about the joys and challenges of contemporary mountain life.

Episode 7 - Portraits of Appalachia .mp3

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 6 South Asia.mp3

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 5 - Meeting Place.mp3

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 4 - Soundwalking .mp3

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)

Episode 3 - Three Squares on the Tundra.mp3

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.

The Roaming Ear - Edge of Extreme .mp3

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.

The Roaming Ear Episode 1.mp3