Far Off Sounds Podcast

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 he caught a glimpse of via youtube.Aural Archipelago is an online repository for the musical sights and sounds of Indonesia, the most musically diverse country on the planet. Part digital archive, part blog, Aural Archipelago mixes field recording, video, photography, and in-depth articles compiled from years of travels across the archipelago. The project is the work of Palmer Keen, an American DIY ethnomusicologist based in Yogyakarta, together with a huge network of collaborators and musicians across Indonesia. With this project, the hope is to allow audiences (local and foreign) free access to music that is often difficult or impossible to hear otherwise.All music is shared with permission of the artists featured. When performances are explicitly commissioned for documentation, artists are compensated appropriately.Aural Archipelago's social media pages - Facebook and Instagram - can be followed at the small links below.Palmer can be contacted at auralarchipelago@gmail.com.

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.

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

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 restaurant "Mom's Spaghetti", as well as Pho, garlic, and the domain-name black market.Listen to the whole episode by patronizing us on patreon.com/faroffsounds

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

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, building a cabin in rural Wisconsin, and the wide sonic world in between.This was a trailer. Full episode available on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faroffsounds

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: https://www.patreon.com/faroffsounds

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 industry". Check her out - amazing stuff! https://www.jnnaprl.com/And if you want to hear the full episode, please consider joining our Patreon community:https://www.patreon.com/faroffsounds

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 patreon.com/faroffsounds

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

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.

FOS sits down with Detroit-based writer Imani Mixon. Full episode at faroffsounds.org/patreon