Listening with China Blue

Mia Lobel is a veteran audio producer, manager, and educator who has spent her career championing creativity, diversity and character-driven storytelling. She has worked with the best writers, journalists and intellectuals to help them achieve their vision in sound. She was the Managing Producer & Lead Producer for Malcolm Gladwell’s "Revisionist History." As VP of content and production for h...

Norman Lowrey is a mask maker / composer / performance sound video artist and Professor Emeritus of Music at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He holds a Ph. D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music. He is the originator of Singing Masks. The masks, ceramic, carved wood, leather and virtual, incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets, electronics and other sounding devices. Each mask has a unique v...

David Amram is a distinguished composer who composed the scores for many films including "Pull My Daisy" (1959) considered one of the most important experimental films of the 20th century, "Splendor In The Grass" (1960) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). He composed the scores for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare In The Park from 1956-1967 and premiered his comic opera "12th Night" with Papp's libret...

Lisa Kelley is a vocalist, performance artist and mother residing in Kingston, NY. Steeped in traditional theater, vocal and performance studies in her youth, Lisa’s creative process continues to revolve around investigations of identity, musical genres and styles, dream action theater, her family’s immigration memories from the Philippines, universal archetypes, Eastern philosophy and a recogniti...

In this episode we will hear from the Columbian born and UK residing sound artist Dr. Ximena Alarcón Díaz. She is a sound and listening artist-researcher exploring embodied forms of sensing place and telepresence to listen to and sound collectively our sonic migrations. She speaks about how migration and geographical changes alters the sense of bodily placement and leads to dislocation. She also a...

Daniel Weintraub is a Director, Producer and Editor. His most recent feature length documentary "Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros", is currently screening all over the world and garnering Weintraub best director accolades. Daniel also created documentary and experimental shorts on the work of Oliveros; "Don’t Call Them Lady Composers", and "Montage for Improvisors" which were shown in...

Stephan Kunze is a writer, book author, and Editor of the Zen Sounds newsletter on experimental music and culture. He's a student and practitioner of Zen Buddhism and Deep Listening, and resides with his family in rural Northeast Germany. He is the author of the popular book Zen Style.

In this episode China Blue will be speaking with the internationally exhibiting New York artist Richard Humann about how listening informs his art making. Richard Humann is a Brooklyn-based neo-conceptual artist with innumerable international gallery and museum exhibitions, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kemi Art Museum, the Tampere Art Museum, the Youngeun Museum of Art, the Torni...

IONE is an Kingston, NY author, director and performer whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, and Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! She is the playwright and director with her creative partner and spouse, Pauline Oliveros of several large theater works including Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior (premier...