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This podcast will touch on stories of nature’s resurrection through COVID-19 and explore why our response as a population has been so different from that of our response to global warming.

In support of the fulfillment of Low residency Master of Applied Arts degree in Visual Arts.

This podcast is a conversation centred around the effects of COVID-19, experiences in nature and exploring our relationships to sound. Each group member conducted interviews with the public and brought what they had gathered to the table in the…

Exploring a big black and white fish, settler-colonialism, tourists, and ancient waters of the Salish Sea which has sustained more nations than I know how to count for thousands of years...and what's happening to them now.

Inspired by the bounce back of wildlife during the COVID lockdown I have focused my attention on the politics of "wilderness". This episode of Nature Speaking is about beginning the learning and unlearning process of the racist history…

Collaboration between a young Bigleaf Maple and Linda Serrano, recorded at Green Timbers Urban Park. A clean recording, as if the listener is inside the trunk; one can only hear the gestures of the performer, like a small animal running over the…

Collaborative performances between students and trees using contact microphones and touch gestures. Created for MDIA300/VAST320 - Sound, Media, Ecology under professor Julie Andreyev, this project sought to expand the performer's awareness of a…

In support of Miles Thorogood's thesis for Master of Applied Art, in media art

I wrote this song last June on the piano, and when I read about QQ, it seemed so appropriate that I decided that I would submit it. It was and is literally my Asian Canadian experience with the COVID quarantine. I had to do some cutting and…

A collaborative piece put together by Ji Qi and Jocelyn Kim, conversing about the soundwalks we recorded and noise pollution around us.

It's a mix of real experience and fiction. The song is about my most recent ex girlfriend. When we first met, we clicked and were having a great time together. But as we got close and were on the edge of progressing to the next part of our…

This is a podcast about the connection of Covid-19 and the air pollution in Canada.

This episode is hosted by Fan Wu, Mickey Morgan, Jocelyn Kim, and Harry Leshgold. Each of us recorded an interview with friends to discuss and better understand how we each interpret and engage with the natural world around us.

In support of Gemma Crowe's MFA thesis.

Collaboration between a Bigleaf Maple and Yumeng Cai. Recording from a low hanging branch, the performer's knocks and scratches mix with the jostling twigs at branch's end.

Collaboration between a Red Cedar and Harry Leshgold, recorded at Miller's Landing on Bowen Island. Performance gestures can be heard echoing through the hard trunk, building to a final climax.

Collaboration between a Vine Maple and Macy Burgess. A stereo recording with two microphones, the listener is placed amidst the branches. Thin wood transmits out-of-tree sound; birds, wind.

You have one new message is an experimental composition of crowd-sourced voice messages and voicemails that have been sent or received in exchanges with loved ones. As we navigate a world where it is more challenging to be with one another, this…

This is the final collaborative track by Shayla, Yessica, Grace and Marisa. A collaborative podcast where we talk about the difference of sound before and during the lockdown, includes some funny/interesting stories :)!

A conversation between Tess Snaden and Shayla Giroux about appreciating and acknowledging the history and worth of the land we are on and visit.