The Wind

The Wind is produced by me, Fil Corbitt. This is an independent podcast made possible by listener support. If you'd like to join the community, visit patreon.com/thewind This episode included a bunch of interviews with people whose art I deeply admire, During the off season I will post some of these long form interviews over on the patreon, where for $5/month you can get access to the bonus wind p...

A conversation about irony, platforms, evil comedy, and how the sounds we make matter and move through the world. You can find Benny Feldman at https://bennyfeld.com/ Episode Transcript To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org

The first full length album from radio show and audio artist The Wind, " Field Recordings of Fast Food Restaurants in Western North America" is a catalogue of new western sound, recorded from the hearpoint of a hard plastic seat.  Set in a variety of public facing corporate grey spaces (for purchasing and eating food in), this album takes a moment to listen to the sound of the places directly in b...

Photos, links, and more at https://thewind.org Become a supporter at: https://patreon.com/thewind When storms blow in from the coast, the tall, jagged Sierra Nevada act as a sharp fence, ripping open the bellies of the clouds and extracting the water from inside. Much of that rain lands on the western slopes, and joins creeks and rivers to run back through California and into the Pacific. But this...

This episode was created entirely by Matt Bunk.  You can find Matt’s work at @AllAroundCowboy_Loops on Instagram,  and at https://bit.ly/MattBunkArtist  To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org

Part of a series featuring recordings of Aeolian Harps. Each will occupy it’s own place in the Wind RSS feed for 5 consecutive posts. Photos and videos: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp ••• Name: Snake of Truth Wind Harp Recording: Recorded on dry lake bed, Summer 2021 Construction: Designed and Built by Eleanor Qull. Large rectangular design of heavy scrap wood. Snake carv...

Part of a series featuring recordings of Aeolian Harps. Each will occupy it’s own place in the Wind RSS feed for 5 consecutive posts. Link for photos and videos: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp ••• Name: Mary Blair Harp (Alt: Sunflower Harp) Recording: Recorded on the edge of Snake Valley, near Baker and Great Basin National Park. Construction: Built by Michael Corbitt. Re...

Part of a series featuring recordings of Aeolian Harps. Each will occupy it’s own place in the Wind RSS feed for 5 consecutive posts. Link for photos and videos: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp ••• Name: Eureka Harp Recording: Recorded at New Pass Road, Nevada, off of Highway 50. Construction: Rectangular with clover hole on face. Pine wood. Two Strings. Constructed with M...

Part of a series featuring recordings of Aeolian Harps. Each will occupy it’s own place in the Wind RSS feed for 5 consecutive posts. Link for photos and videos: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp ••• Name: Obsidian Sky Wind Harp (alt: Mountain Lion Harp) Recording: Recorded in Sierra Nevada, Summer 2025 Construction: Triangular prism design with 3 holes in face. Pine wood. S...

This is part of a series featuring recordings of my Aeolian Harps. Each will occupy it’s own place in the Wind RSS feed, for 5 consecutive posts. Link for photos and videos: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp ••• Name: Stovepipe Wind Harp Recording: Recorded on dry lake bed, Fall 2025. Construction: Made of a metal stovepipe: 4 strings, diamond shaped hole cut into face. Stov...

Pictures and videos will be available here: https://thewind.org/episodes/how-to-make-an-aeolian-harp For the next 5 episodes, I’ll be playing audio of Aeolian harps (built by myself, Eleanor Qull and/or Michael Corbitt). The episodes will not include introductions or narration, so they’ll just be harp sound, with detailed information in the episode descriptions. • The first harp sound will drop to...

Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Reese River, a newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods. The secret history of bitcoin? The Toiyabe Mole Man in the mines of ERN, NEVADA? The TRUE story of TOTAL LIARS and the history they invented for themselves, and for us.  Links/Images: https://thewind.org/ Subscribe/Foll...

Folks of many religious persuasions have ways of doing it, sometimes around or between temples, sometimes encircling specific mountains, like the Kora of Mt Kailash in Tibet. In the 1960s, poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg began annual circumambulations of Mt. Tamalpais in the SF bay area. Snyder learned the practice from Zen Bhuddists in Japan, and the three explained their walk...

Subscribe | Patreon | Website I’ve been thinking about the radio About the towers on the mountain And the people far away who choose what’s on them. Some Scared and angry and building bunkers, the men who own the ways we communicate,  all just a line item somewhere in the lowest dustiest corner of a spreadsheet.   Some of this thought path has been paved — the short postcard form of this program i...

!! More at https://www.futureecologies.net/ !! Dear Wind Listeners. It’s the off season right now; currently working on Year 6 but I’m here to ask for a quick favor, and then play a guest episode from one of my favorite podcasts, Future Ecologies. In this algorithmic big-tech world, it can be very difficult to find new listeners. For the last 5 years one of the ways I’ve been trying to reach new p...

The end of Year 5 of The Wind.  Thank you for being here // and keep listening. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org

The Wind is a podcast from a desk in the mountains. This episode was recorded live in the woods as a self-titled sort of thesis. This episode is also available as a video -- if you'd like to watch me read this piece at the desk, visit https://thewind.org or head to https://www.youtube.com/@thewind_podcast  Thank you to everybody who made this season of The Wind possible. This episode features the...

This independent podcast is listener supported. If you'd like to help me make this show, visit https://patreon.com/thewind to set up a monthly donation. Thank you to Dean Barlese for trusting me with this story. Also a big thank you to BC Zahn Nahtzu (a co-defendant in the case that also held a long-distance staring contest through binoculars with mine security. BC is an artist with an Etsy store...

The sun sets over Sunset Boulevard; the palm trees silhouette. In the front garden of a big house off the main drag, the puppet show begins. •• This independent podcast is made with listener support. If you like to become a patron, head to patreon.com/thewind and set up a monthly donation. A huge thank you to all of the residents of Ag Lago for speaking with me and for hosting me over the years. R...

Up the freeway a few miles from Downtown Los Angeles, the streetlights flicker on and I approach the warm glow of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Inside, I meet organist Edward Torres. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org

Cowboy poetry is often very structured. The good poets play with that structure and surprise you with twists or a pauses, jokes, word play. Henry’s poems do somethin’ else entirely. They feel like suddenly you’re walking down a path and you don’t know where it’s goin’, or if it’s goin’ anywhere, but it usually does and then you’re somewhere a little different and he says thanks and puts his hat ba...

Subscribe here Links, photos and more at www.thewind.org A song bounces from slope to slope, emerging from the valley as an echo. Just of out earshot from Spokane Falls we meet star Taiwanese yodeler, Ho Lan. Ho Lan • Bandcamp | Website   ///   Tags, Topics and Mentions: Ho Lan, Echo from Deep Valley, Yodeling, Yodel, Taiwanese Yodel, Puli, Spokane, Washington, Spokane River, Spokane Falls, Expo '...

The word “transit” comes from the Latin “transitus”, meaning to pass across or through. Off the subway in Brooklyn, down the stairs into the busy green room of On Air Fest, we meet Jazmine (JT) Green. || Ephemera, change, sound. || This episode features a piece called: Transformation through Repetition (feat. Jemma Rose Brown) - aired on Jazmine’s experimental audio podcast U+1F60C Thanks to: Elea...

From the backroom of a Basque hotel in the Great Basin, Tuvan throat singing flows out through the bar, over the train tracks, and into the vast sagebrush steppes. || Topics, Tags and Mentions: Alash Ensemble, petroglyphs, freight train, The Martin Hotel, the martin hotel winnemucca, winnemucca nevada, basque, picon punch, tuva, throat singing, xoomei, tuvan throat singing, seven troughs, ghost to...

Year 5 • Prologue -- notes on maintaining the desk and wandering far from the home mountain. This year you'll hear more of the interviews left long form; more intact. More raw material, collected from the road. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewind Subscribe at thewind.org