When we talk about sound, what exactly are we talking about? In this episode, we’ll take you on a journey through “ear mode,” spanning contemporary art and Hollywood films, before heading to the “Heartbeat Museum” on Toshima Island in Japan and the solitary Vatna Glacier. When sound is separated from the body, how does it become the final evidence that life once existed?

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You’ll hear

Part 1: Introduction

• 00:00 When we talk about sound, what are we really talking about?

Part 2 The Silence That Breaks the Silence—A Paradigm Shift

• 01:49 4′33″— John Cage
• 06:01 Random Access Music — Nam June Paik

Part 3 Invisible Architecture—How Sound Transforms Cities and Spaces

• 08:10 Times Square — Max Neuhaus
• 11:36 The Forty Part Motet — Janet Cardiff

Part 4 The Texture of Illusion — The “Alchemy” of Film Sound Design

• 14:26 Physical Reality vs. Narrative Reality: Lies Among the Stars
• 17:17 The Illusion of Time: The Shepard Tone and *Dunkirk*
• 18:46 The Deprivation and Alienation of Sound: When the World Becomes “Metal”

Part 5 Heartbeats and Glaciers—Sound as a Relic of Life

• 21:54 Les Archives du Cœur (The Heartbeat Museum) — Christian Boltanski
• 26:31 Vatnajökull (the sound of) — Katie Paterson
• 29:04 Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull — Katie Paterson
• 30:31 The Sound of Ice Melting — Paul Kos

Part 6: Conclusion

• 32:27 Turn on your “listening mode”

Part 7 Swing

• 35:04 Swing Time
• 36:35 The Books - The Lemon of Pink

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