WCA #416 with Jez riley French - Listening Below the Surface, Contact Mics and Hydrophones, Traces, Swapping Cassettes, and Music Shop Blokes

My guest is Sound Artist Jez riley French. Jez is widely regarded as having played a pivotal role in expanding the use of contact microphones, hydrophones, electromagnetic coils, ultrasonic detectors, geophones, and VLF receivers in the sound arts, sound design (for the screen, theatre, and radio), and music in a wide range of contexts. His work has included commissions and performances for  Tate Modern (UK) The Whitworth (UK) Paradise Air (Japan) MoT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan) Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo (Norway) Baltic (UK) Steklenik (Slovenia) Museo Reina Sofia (Spain) Catalyst Arts (N. Ireland) Artisphere (USA) Harpa (Iceland) Mengi (Iceland) The Wired Lab (Australia) Mullae Art Space (Korea) q-02 (Belgium)  In this episode, we discuss Open Space of Yorkshire New Wave and Punk Sharp Recorder Fascination with Listening Sexism in Music Discovering Contact Mics and Hydrophones Listening Below the Surface Pre-Internet Research Music Shop Blokes Swapping Cassettes Feeling Right to Press Record Traces Setting up a Distribution Company Durational Listening The Emotion of Listening Audio Memory Recording Mediums Sound Art Making a Living Field Recording Approaches There Are No Rules Influences Matt's Rant: Holiday Reset Links and Show Notes Jez's Website  Pheobe riley Law Credits Guest: Jex riley French Host: Matt Boudreau Engineer: Matt Boudreau Producer: Matt Boudreau Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau  WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell  Announcer: Chuck Smith