20251213 - Death as a Natural Transformation with Claude Schryer, Azul Carolina Duque, Kenneth Newby and Wendelin Bartley - Making Waves

Guest Host Claude Schryer from the conscient podcast has invited three Canadian sound artists to have a discussion in response to the phrase, ‘death as a natural transformation of energy and consciousness, not an end’ All three artists have been on past episodes of the Conscient podcast which is about Art and the Ecological Crisis. They are Azul Carolina Duque (e211 art as medicine), Kenneth Newby (e207 living with grace) and Wendelin Bartley (e222 restoring our connection with nature). Initially Making Waves invited Claude Schryer to chair a discussion on climate change. This discussion touches on the climate crisis but through the subject of death. Death in the sense of how spirit and consciousness continues when the body goes back to the earth. What might this spirit and consciousness sound like? How might this heightened awareness relate to climate change?At the top of show we play the opening from Chasm by Kenneth Newby, off his album From Solitude: music for spectral orchestra. At the end we play Wendelin Bartley’s composition Stone Mysteries from her 2012 album Sound Dreaming. Mid-way through the program she sings part of The Keening of the Three Marys, which was taught to her by Mary McLaughlin. At another point, Azul improvises a vocalization that she may do as a Death Doula.  Her album Telurico features her work as a folk singer.Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/