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Speech Sounds: Five Sonic Stories
Speech Sounds is a 5-part audio-series showcasing sound artists, griots and poets working while engaging in a conversation around memory and culture for those within the African diaspora. Speech Sounds is an independent project of Hush Harbour Press.More info: hushharbour.com/speechsounds
Podcasting since 2022 • 10 episodes
Speech Sounds: Five Sonic Stories
Latest Episodes
Episode 5: How to Make a Sonic Story
This final episode recaps the series’ previous themes while meditating on ‘process’ for individual Black sound makers. Unlike other episodes that collage around a central theme, “How to Write a Sonic Story” features interviews by long-time stor...
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Episode 5
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26:03
Episode 2: Queer, Gifted and Black
This episode follows the dark, beautiful, incomprehensible spectrum of queerness among Black sound makers. Celebrating Black, queer femmes in particular—our sound, adornment, celebration, and resistance. By unpacking how Black femininity, in pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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40:48
Episode 4: Our Aesthetic: Celebrating Black Sound
In this episode, we are guided by SOSA (aka The Sauce), a soft-spoken sound and music art therapist, who welcomes a new patient for a session. Although the patient arrives full of doubts and anxiety, SOSA uses the power of Black aesthetic sound...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:10
Episode 3: Honouring Our Aunties Audio
Our aunties are the bridge between parent and child. They are wise storytellers within our families, friend circles, and communities and hold the riches of oral traditions that are too often undocumented and underappreciated. Whether it is goss...
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Episode 3
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42:30
Episode 1: The Art of Listening
Spoken word is an ancient form, a Black form, with origins from our ancestral storytellers—spoken word emerged from Black jazz poets, using African riffs, rhythmics, and beats to accompany the core of the stories being told.In “The Art o...
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Episode 1
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