This podcast is based on my first piece in the project, Arguing with the Madronas. In adapting the essay to this format I had to think about rhetoric in new ways, considering elements of storytelling and layering, and reworked the content for this new medium. Performing the piece aurally allowed me to work with music, and I would argue that this installment is as much song as it is podcast. Just as the trees and other cohabitants of the landscape have a voice, so too does my guitar, my bass. In recognizing my instruments as actants I listen to their voice, speaking through them and intertwining the music with my words.
The soundscape of the podcast also includes field recordings of natural ambient noise from the estuary and various voices and sound effects which I produced. Taking influences from the likes of Reggie Watts, Kaitlin Prest of The Heart, and Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything, I weave the voices of people, the landscape, and music together to create a layered rhetorical experience which mirrors its themes in form.
The soundscape of the podcast also includes field recordings of natural ambient noise from the estuary and various voices and sound effects which I produced. Taking influences from the likes of Reggie Watts, Kaitlin Prest of The Heart, and Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything, I weave the voices of people, the landscape, and music together to create a layered rhetorical experience which mirrors its themes in form.