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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
Episodes
10 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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 1
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24:01
[TEASER] Ep 5: Process: 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 focus on a central theme, “How to Write a Sonic Story” acts as a guide for emerging Black sonic ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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0:39
[TEASER] Ep 4: Our Aesthetic: Celebration of Black Sound
An entirely FUBU call to the heavens, forever out of reach from the white gaze, this episode unpacks, expressed & celebrates the nuanced texture of sound-makers that are committed to Black collective aesthetics.Voice: Lue Palmer
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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0:39
[TEASER] Ep 3: Honouring Our Auntie's Audio
In "Honouring Our Auntie's Audio" we celebrate the wise storytellers within our families, friend circles, and communities and hold the riches of oral traditions that are too often undocumented and underappreciated.Voice: Lue Palmer
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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0:39
[TEASER] Ep 2: Queer, Gifted and Black
In "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 & resistance.Voi...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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0:44
[TEASER] Ep 1: The Art of Listening
In “The Art of Listening” we talk about how listening & being listened to is critical for Black thought, counterculture, revolution, & myth-making. Drawing on dub, jazz, toasting, beat, hip hop, protest & more, this sonic adventure ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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0:43
