Listen Closely

Join me for a sunny winter day in the park, along with some Mary Oliver poems.

Audio poem? Audio journal? An errant note on my phone turns into an experience.

It goes like this: use a random word generator to source ten sounds from freesound.org. Then, combine them together to make an interesting sound.

The sounds that filled the cracks of 2021.  -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want to take part?  Reach out at podcastalec [at] gmail [dot] com.

It goes like this: use a random word generator to source ten sounds from freesound.org. Then, combine them together to make an interesting sound. "A religion, almost a religion, any religion, a quintal in religion, a relying and a surface and a service in indecision and a creature and a question and a syllable in answer and more counting and no quarrel and a single scientific statement and no dark...

Hello from the street, the tunnels, and a basement full of jazz. -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want to take part?  Reach out at podcastalec [at] gmail [dot] com.

A chance for something new, and a chance to do something over. I ask the question: how do you leave a place properly? -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want to take part? &...

In the 1940s, Osamu Tezuka was drawing manga panels in his spare time when he realized something: due to government censorship, nobody was willing to talk about the problems that led to WWII. And so, with a pen in hand, he set to change that -- and what he created ended up changing the world. -- Read the full story here: https://aleccowan12.medium.com/how-anime-took-off-in-the-u-s-8d6354557867 --...

Roll a pair of dice. Make a 1-minute doodle inspired by that number. Guest prompt from Rob Rosenthal and Gwen. Audio Playground is masterfully put together by Sarah Geis, "a radio and podcast maker, editor, and teacher working in Chicago and beyond." Find more information at https://www.audioplayground.xyz/hello -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this shor...

"No man ever steps in the same [ocean] twice, for it's not the same [ocean] and he's not the same man." A routine post-vacation phone call diverges into that tricky exercise of remembering. And as Rachel Carson reminds us, can anything remember more than the ocean? -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 --...

A compilation of the sounds that defined the tempestuous and exhilarating year, 2020.  -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want to take part?  Reach out at podcasta...

I find a trove of tape for a project that never materialized. This is audio behind the scenes, before the cuts, in their context and without it. Choo choo. -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound...

Moving in the middle of a pandemic is freeing, but it ain't easy.  -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want to take part?  Reach out at podcastalec [at] gmail [dot]...

With some inspiration and help from YouTube Filmmaker Dan Mace, I reach out to a South African Musician in a shared Facebook group.  -- How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9  -- Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary ent...

7 months into a pandemic, and home is starting to spin. Enable the "Listen Closely" Alexa skill today to stay up to date on the latest log. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries. Want...

What makes a Great American Roadtrip? A look at the life on the road now and back then. Enable the "Listen Closely" Alexa skill today to stay up to date on the latest log. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the fut...

"It doesn't matter how so slow you go so long as you do not stop."  Enable the "Listen Closely" Alexa skill today to stay up to date on the latest log. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of di...

An Intricate Context of Things is my new lo-fi hip-hop album based on the things getting me through quarantine.  Find the full album with instrumental tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/alec-cowan/sets/an-intricate-context-of-things How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used...

Painting legend Bob Ross walks us through a painting come to life: the Trinity Alps in northern California, where hijinks and sore muscles are to be found. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of dia...

Don't buy fireworks, people. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries.

A trumpet ensemble, drive-in COVID test, and annoying midnight bird walk into a bar.  How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries.

To be heard is a blessing and some days a miracle. I'm so thankful for my name and voice to have been weaved into the sound of this city, to be played over radios and heard through ears. To Seattle, the Emerald City and my welcome home for the past year. Goodbye. Thank you for listening. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/...

The summer of '93 was a busy one. Fun times were to be had at the pool and on the golf course.  Videocameras grab everything you see, but today the goal is to grab everything you can hear.  How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact...

Over the ferry, through the woods, to foamy shore and crystal lake we go. Recorded in Olympic National Park in Washington. How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries.

In order of appearance:  - Wailuku - The Iao Valley - Kihei - Haleakala National Park - Wailuku How did this episode make you feel? If you have a moment, please fill out this short survey: https://forms.gle/SUcphdvFDRkN4eNa9 Your responses will not be used for anything without additional contact and will help shape the future sound of diary entries.