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Far Off Sounds Podcast
by Nick George and Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Far Off Sounds is a webseries of documentaries about the infinite story of music on Earth. From harsh industrial noise performed for fish in an aquarium, to a heavy metal cruise ship in the Caribbean, Far Off Sounds has been filming the ways that humans use and engage with music for a decade. The Far Off Sounds Podcast expands on this project. The show's creators, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George, interview ethnomusicologists, experimental musical meme pedagogues, musicians, label artists, journalists and others in long-form conversations about music, as well as providing a behind-the-scene glimpse at the doc series' production.
Episodes
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TTFN
The Far Off Sounds crew has some bittersweet news for you all out there in podcastland. After some deliberation and heavy group-texting, we've decided to put a pause on the FOS Podcast and Patreon for now. So this is our "Ta Ta for Now" episode.We're all just too swamped with work and other...
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Modern Ethnomusicology with Palmer Keen (Teaser)
Palmer Keen from Aural Archipelago joins Nick and Jacob to talk about how his DIY Ethnomusicological exploration of Indonesia came to fruition. We find out what it's like to blindly trust strangers on the internet and travel thousands of miles away to have a chance at capturing a music tradition…
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Noise and Comedy in the New World with Rebecca Mahay
Old School FOS homie Rebecca Mahay joins Nick and Bryan on the show today to chat about underground music in her hometown of Leeds and in the UK, comical approaches to experimental music, her unexpected path to finding sonic absurdism, and how living with chronic illness has impacted the way she...
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Behind The Episode: Onyx Ashanti Programs Himself
TEASER: We talk about shooting the episode 'Onyx Ashanti Programs Himself' back in the summer of 2016, on the cusp of a global paradigm shift, when optimism and cynicism felt a bit more in balance.
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Caveh Zahedi
Ladies and gentlemen, the Podcast about the Podcast. After we talked about Caveh on our Holiday Special last. month, and then Caveh listened to the episode, and then he talked about the mixed experience he had listening to us talk about him in his public diary later that week, we have finally...
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Eric Lennartson and Oscilloscope Music
Eric Lennartson uses a cutting-edge programming method and an old analog circuit-testing machine called an oscilloscope to create immersive sound and visual performances that get us thinking about the link between sound and sight, humans and machines. ericlennartson.com
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PREPARE TO MEET THY HOLIDAY SPECIAL
We decided to get together to record a couple hours of 100% banter. If you're looking for substance, please feel free to skip this one. There is nothing substantial here. Just Nick, Bryan, and Jacob talking about IBS, Caveh Zahedi, crashing our cars to certain types of music, xmas music that…
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Spaghetti & Auto-Tune (TEASER)
We go behind the scenes of a couple Far Off Sounds docs that were made abroad, solo, without the usual team. First up we go deep into Jacob's episode 'The Disappearing Bamboo Wind" shot in Vietnam, and the second is Nick's "Orkes Keroncong Tugu", shot in Indonesia. We discuss Eminem's new...
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Stop Making That Face
Jacob and Nick catch up on life, crypto, the Chaos Era, and "that face". It's a long one. Happy holidays. Music: Ne Me Quitte Pas by Jacques Brel
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FOS Pod 18: Water & Music (Teaser)
Cherie Hu and Diana Gremore from Water and Music join FOS to talk about their Decentralized Autonomous Organization dedicated to music industry research and data collection. For access to the full episode, consider joining as a Far Off Sounds patron - https://www.patreon.com/faroffsounds
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Heavy Rotation
cha cha cha
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TRAILER: John Yingling and the World Underground
John Yingling travels the world, making films about underground music scenes. So obviously we had some common ground to go over with him. His biggest, boldest project to date was a multi-year tour of China with several underground punk and experimental groups. We talk music in Communist China,...
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Unearthed interview with Adrian Rew on Casino Music
Nick went to NYC some years back an interviewed Adrian Rew about his field recordings of casinos in the American Midwest. Are they all tuned to "C"? What makes them so hypnotic? Do the sounds make me lose all my money? I also complain about expensive ramen at the end. I no longer believe that $26...
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FOS POD - 15: Nina Protocol
We're joined by the guys behind Nina Protocol, a new platform for buying and selling music on the blockchain. We talk about how it works, is blockchain a scam, experimental music, discogs, and archiving music for generations down the line. Full episode available on our Patreon:...
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Al Jolson Was A Mensch
Jacob and Bryan have been collaborating remotely on Far Off Sounds podcast stuff for months without really knowing each other. Today, they sit down to uncover how they know each other, a shared history in the suburbs of Detroit, and to ask some urgent "desert island" questions. A friendship is...
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Jinn April (aka DJ PIA)
TEASER: Jinn April joins us for a conversation about growing up in Korea, moving to America for art school, and living in Detroit after developing a love affair with Detroit Techno and Midwestern dance music. We chat lore and dive deep into her work while discussing the struggles of the "music...
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Jacob and Nick In The Woods Getting Coffee (TEASER)
Did you know Dr. Sushi isn't Nick's real name? We talk about fish, life transitions, and Pure Michigan. Don't worry, be happy. ( NOTE: this is a teaser of the full episode. To hear the whole thing, hear a whole bunch of full episodes, see secretly released episodes and deleted scenes, and support...
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PREVIEW: #12 - Jesse Sanes
Hardcore musician, experimental artist, and leftist pro-tenant organizer Jesse Sanes sits down with Nick for a deep deep DEEP dive into music, the death drive, the personal, the aesthetic, the political, and how these zones interact or don't. For the full episode, patronize us at...
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FOS POD 11: Forest Juziuk
Forest Juziuk of the Asra Agency joins us for an hour of storytelling, wisdom, Port Huron lore, Ann Arbor weirdos, San Fran Frisky, and spirited discussion on the state of contemporary music.
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FOS POD 08: Cambodia, California
Nick and Jacob revisit the making of Cambodia, California. To hear the full version, visit our Patreon and give us a lil bit of your sweet sweet money
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FOS POD: 07 - Arrington De Dionysio
Nick and Jacob sit down with our old friend Arrington De Dionysio for a chat about the state of DIY music culture, collaborations abroad, the role of spirituality and ritual in music, and of course the weather. https://www.patreon.com/faroffsounds
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FOS POD 06: Marginal Consort
Marginal Consort is a Japanese collective/free improvisation group made of sound and visual artists, who have played one concert annually since 1997. We look back at the video we made with them and talk about our feelings.
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FOS POD 04: La Meme Young
FOS hosts La Meme Young on the show to discuss pedagogical memeology, starting a music school on Discord, and the insanity of everything.
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FOS POD 03: Imani Mixon
FOS sits down with Detroit-based writer Imani Mixon. Full episode at faroffsounds.org/patreon
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FOS POD 02: NPCC Fest + NYC
We got invited to screen at a film festival in New York, we learn that it has a bit of an agenda. Visit patreon.com/faroffsounds to hear the whole thang
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FOS POD 01: Welcome To Far Off Sounds
Jacob and Nick are taking the plunge. We discuss what kind of show this is and where it's headed. Also a debate over whether we should have small talk.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Far Off Sounds is a webseries of documentaries about the infinite story of music on Earth. From harsh industrial noise performed for fish in an aquarium, to a heavy metal cruise ship in the Caribbean, Far Off Sounds has been filming the ways that humans use and engage with music for a decade. The Far Off Sounds Podcast expands on this project. The show's creators, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George, interview ethnomusicologists, experimental musical meme pedagogues, musicians, label artists, journalists and others in long-form conversations about music, as well as providing a behind-the-scene glimpse at the doc series' production.
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Nick George and Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
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Far Off Sounds is a webseries of documentaries about the infinite story of music on Earth. From harsh industrial noise performed for fish in an aquarium, to a heavy metal cruise ship in the Caribbean, Far Off Sounds has been filming the ways that humans use and engage with music for a decade. The...
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