Mozart live in the lobby of a small hotel in Umbria, Italy. This parrot not only talks but can imitate a wide range of sounds and conversation snips...spend a moment in the hotel lobby with Mozart and Me ..read more

Walk with me in Umbria, Italy. How do you capture the sound of wind with a microphone, in a valley between two ancient towns, on a trail between olive groves? Relax and imagine you're there with me...Brought to you by the Audio Love Newsletter; Where sound and word meet. Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/AudioLoveNewsletter ..read more

ASMR Walking together in Antarctica So let's just stop and take 3 deep breathes: 1 ... 2.... 3 And now just listen. We’re going to go on a walk, together. While you’re taking these steps, can you feel the pebbles part under your feet? Let’s take 10 steps together. Count them out in your mind. Only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Are you walking the same pace as me? Where were you heading? Where do the sounds of these steps are take you? Let’s assume this is a good thing, a good place. Somewhere that will bring joy. Let your heart fill up your heart with a goloshy feeling of goodness ..read more

After a long hiatus, due to the pandemic, I’ve recently started going to the cinema again, and it feels great. There’s something about seeing a film in a festival, actually in person, that feels extravagant…even if you have to still wear a mask. Because, when you’re at a festival, you get to see the filmmakers in person, and often the actors or subjects too. It’s just exciting. You feel like you’re part of something. The most recent film I got to see was at the Hot Docs International Film Festival, and it’s called Nalvany. It’s a documentary that was following Nalvany, if you don’t know, the u ..read more

If you’ve ever been on boat, or a ship, maybe you’ll agree with me that the sound of water hitting the hull, is very calming. It can put you to sleep. It can let your mind wander. It can allow you the space to imagine being somewhere else.  Maybe this is not a surprising statement, but I love sound. Raw, in the moment, nature, natural noise, chatter in a specific spot…wherever it might be, when I listen to it, I can close my eyes and imagine that I’m somewhere else. Well, today, I’ve got a bit of a treat for you. I want to share some sound, which is pretty much raw sound, just a recording ..read more

When I first started doing radio work back in the 1990s, it felt awkward to listen to my own tape. When I heard the listened back, nothing about my voice seemed familiar. It was like it could have been someone else. Definitely someone younger, less assured, ah, and, ummm who was sometimes prone to up-talking. Eventually, this changed. Practice, practice, practice. The more interviews I did, the more I had to listen to my own voice, and then the more I edited my own voice, the more I began to sound… edited. And then I began to notice that the voice that I heard on the tape was the same voice th ..read more

Recall these two feelings…even if they seem like a distant thought right now. First thought: You desperately need to get away, go on vacation, get a change of scenery. Anywhere but here. And then the second thought: Wow, that felt great. I really needed that. I now have a fresh perspective on all kinds of things. And, I’m ready to come back home. With fresh eyes. New outlook. Here we go. But then, you get back, and it doesn’t take long before all those calming, uplifting thoughts from your time away, disappear. And then you slide back back into old habits, the same old the ways of seeing and d ..read more

When I packed my bags and left for Antarctica in 2018, for an entire month, to go away to the absolute farthest place I could go, I was terrified. But I buried that, that fear, waaaay deep down…so far down I was SURE no one else would be able to see it. Down in that dark place, it turns out there were many layers…I had fears about irrational things that I had no control over: like the boat sinking, like my equipment breaking down, like running out of batteries in the middle of something important… or whether or not I would get sea sick.  And then I had some entirely rationale fears too. I ..read more

​Dr. Adriana Humanes is a coral reef scientist from Venezuela. She completed her Ph.D. in Australia, and now is pursuing a postdoc with the @Coralassist_Lab through Newcastle University in the UK….I met her on the ship to Antarctica in 2018. For the last four years Adriana, and her colleagues have conducted field work in Palau, which is an archipelago of more than 300 islands situated in the Pacific Ocean between Indonesia and the Philippines. As Adriana explains, coral reefs are facing and unprecedented decline due to marine heatwaves, and also because of mass coral bleaching events. In the l ..read more

One of those days when the tears came...happy, confused, exhausted tears...near the end of a long journey that's been hard. But so, so very much worth it. But why is it so hard to hear nice things from others? Why do we push them out? Brought to you by the Audio Love Newsletter; Unforgettable short audio clips, with the incredible backstory, delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/Audio-love ..read more