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Listening with China Blue is a podcast about listening. In this podcast the artist China Blue interviews musicians, artists, filmmakers, teachers, Buddhists, psychiatrists, business leaders and culture creators about how listening leads to creativity, innovation, change and happiness.
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- 3 weeks ago51 min
Listening with David Sulzer Neuroscientist, Musician & Author
What if music could reveal not only how our own minds work, but also how other species experience the world?In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with neuroscientist, musician, and author David Sulzer, also known as composer Dave Soldier, about the mysteries of musical perception and the surprising connections between human and animal minds.From exploring how our brains recognize and respond to music before conscious awareness to creating music with elephants in the Thai Elephant Orchestra, David challenges us to reconsider what listening means across species.Can elephants and birds experience music as we do? What does music reveal about intelligence, communication, and consciousness? And might listening help us recognize forms of awareness beyond our own?If you've ever wondered what music reveals about the mind and whether other species experience sound as we do, this episode is for you.
- Sep 30, 202653 min
Listening with Andrea Nann, Dancer & Choreographer
What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms? What if listening isn't something we do only with our ears, but with our entire bodies—and with one another?In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with dancer and choreographer Andrea Nann about embodied listening: the ways we perceive through breath, movement, energy, sensation, space, and our awareness of other people. Andrea describes listening as the foundational capacity of improvisation: the practice that allows us to enter uncertainty without already knowing what comes next. We explore how movement can emerge from attention rather than instruction, how our bodies carry the archives of our lived experience, and how listening together can transform separate individuals into participants in something being created collectively.If you've ever wondered what becomes possible when we listen with our whole bodies and allow our response to emerge from what is happening now, this episode is for you.
- Sep 14, 20260 min
Listening with Jim Nollman, Interspecies musician and Grammy Award nominee
What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms? In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I talk with Jim Nollman, Grammy award nominee, musician and creator of "Orcas Greatest Hits", about music, orcas, and listening across species.We explore what happens when music becomes a meeting place between species: how Jim Nollman improvises with orcas, how he recognizes when an animal is responding, and what decades of listening have taught him about communication, intelligence, agency, and consciousness.Our conversation asks us to consider whether meaningful communication with other species begins when we stop expecting them to communicate on human terms, and whether listening itself can become a form of relationship. If you’re curious about what animals can teach us about listening, this episode is for you.
- Aug 22, 20260 min
Listening with Hildegard Westerkamp, Acoustic Ecology Composer
What if the world around us is a continuous symphony and listening is how we become part of it?In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with pioneering acoustic ecology composer Hildegard Westerkamp, whose life's work has transformed the way we think about sound, place, and our relationship with the environment.We explore what happens when we begin to hear the everyday world as music; the rhythms of cities, the voices of nature, the sounds we welcome and those we tune out. Hildegard shares how attentive listening can deepen our relationship with place and awaken us to the continuous symphony unfolding around us.Our conversation asks us to consider listening not simply as something we do with our ears, but as a way of participating in the world.If you've ever wondered what you might discover by slowing down and listening to the symphony already unfolding around you, this episode is for you.
- Aug 9, 202647 min
Listening with Annea Lockwood, Pioneering composer
What if listening doesn’t simply change what we hear, but determines how we understand and relate to the world around us?In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with pioneering composer Annea Lockwood to explore her lifelong fascination with sound, the environment, and the visceral ways we experience listening through our bodies. We talk about her belief that listening determines everything, her decades of listening to and recording rivers, and her understanding of rivers not simply as landscapes or sources of sound, but as living systems with agency of their own.Our conversation asks what becomes possible when we stop treating the natural world as something separate from ourselves and begin listening to it as an active participant in our shared existence.If you’ve ever wondered how listening can transform your relationship with the natural world and what we might discover when we begin to hear rivers as having lives and agency of their own this episode is for you.
- Jul 13, 202649 min
Listening with Singing Rain and Laughing Owl, Indigenous leaders
What if listening wasn't just something you do with your ears, but a way of connecting with the Earth, your ancestors, and every living thing?In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with Singing Rain and Laughing Owl of the Association of Native Americans of the Mid-Hudson Valley about oral tradition, listening to birds, trees, rocks, and ancestors, and the belief that every living thing has a voice. This conversation is about listening as relationship, memory, and a way of belonging.If you've ever wondered what the natural world might be saying and how listening can deepen your relationship with it this episode is for you.
- Jul 6, 202640 min
Listening to the World: Stuart Fowkes on Field Recording, Sound Mapping & Cities and Memory
Field recording, sound mapping, and soundscape storytelling are transforming how we experience the world. In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with Stuart Fowkes, founder of Cities and Memory, one of the world's largest collaborative sound projects, bringing together more than 2,500 artists who remix the world one sound at a time.Since 2014, Stuart has built an extraordinary global archive of field recordings and creative reinterpretations from more than 100 countries. What began as a simple idea—to pair an original environmental recording with an artistic remix—has evolved into an international community exploring memory, place, culture, and listening through sound.Our conversation explores what makes a meaningful field recording, how sound mapping can preserve disappearing acoustic environments, and why listening deeply to everyday places can change how we understand our communities. We discuss the creative relationship between documentation and imagination, the ethics of recording public spaces, and the role of artists in building a shared sonic memory of the planet.Whether you're interested in field recording, acoustic ecology, sound art, environmental storytelling, podcasting, or simply becoming a better listener, this conversation offers an inspiring look at how sound connects us across cultures and geography.
- Feb 11, 202657 min
Listening with Vero Faye Kitsuné, C Z A R I N A Musician
China Blue speaks with musician Vero Faye Kitsuné who goes by the name C Z A R I N A about how as an indigenous Filipino shamanism, the grandeur of nature and Spain's witches inspired listening for the Dark Wave.Vero Faye Kitsuné is an American award-winning electronic artist, producer, and filmmaker based in Galicia, Spain, she is known for a darkwave/industrial sound inspired by cyberpunk and anime, she creates synth-heavy, cinematic music.
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