Walking Collective Podcast
An audio project to bring you a mix of walking-inspired interviews, guides, and soundscapes. Follow the podcast, listen while walking, and participate in our online events to discuss with other collective members.
Music by Annie Garlind, uccharlo.bandcamp.com
Podcast funding by Gallatin Resource Fund at NYU.
2021
“Can walking build connection to place? How can I connect to the places I move through, if I’m only an ephemeral traveler?” We discuss these questions with Henry Fletcher and Jay Simpson, who have guided wilderness treks and trail restoration trips in the Westfjords of Iceland. Their guiding has led them to find practices of listening and engagement that seek deep connections to place.
In conversation with Joe Whittle, a photographer, writer, seasonal US Forest Ranger, and enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and descendant member of the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma. Follow him at @joewhittlephotography. Our episode features an image of Joe’s friend, Kanim, as gathers wild cous roots (aka cous biscuitroot) in a garden that was tended by his ancestors for over 15,000 years (Nimiipuu Territory).
The Sonocene Podcast Ep. 04
Appears on an episode of The Sonocene and collaborated with Konstantine Vlasis on the field recordings and the direction of the haptic-forward sound design.
“Sonorous” is defined as the capacity to produce sound. “The Anthropocene” refers to our current geologic epoch in which humanity has reshaped environments and climates on a planetary scale.
Welcome to the Sonocene – Ecological Stories Told Through Sound
2023
The presence of coyotes in New York City may seem contradictory, as wild animals living in such a densely populated city might be hard to believe. However, numerous packs of coyotes have been able to thrive across the city’s pockets of green space.
In this episode, “Following Coyotes,” Jay Simpson (artist-researcher and National Geographic Explorer) tells a story about coyotes, soundscape ecology, and how to listen to a landscape. Drawing from his research and sensory ethnography practice, Simpson leads us along coyote paths that run throughout Pugsley Creek Park, along Westchester Creek, and throughout Ferry Point Park in the Bronx. We’re able to hear the extent of noise pollution within these environments, and the ways coyotes and humans can co-create city spaces. What can we learn about New York City, about our notions of a “wild” nature, and about environmental change as we walk along the pathways of coyotes?
All proceeds from this episode will be donated to the Gotham Coyote Project, a collective of researchers, educators, and students working together to study the ecology of the northeastern coyote in New York City and the region.
Further Resources
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlast, Denis Wood
“Queer Ecology” by Catriona Sandilands from Keywords for Environmental Studies (Eds. Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow)
Sounds from the Westfjords
Sounds collected from guiding trips into the Westfjords of Iceland. These include songs, environmental recordings, and more.
2017
Sounds from the Rim of Africa
Sounds collected as part of my Rim of Africa Multimedia Trail Journal.
2012
GreatGuides.Org Audio Stories
A collection of audio stories produced for fun.