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Washington Post
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Heather Stebbins is making music from sounds inside her home and her head
Music is made of memory — sounds heard, feelings felt, lessons learned, all funneled through the intentionality of the moment. If you need a reminder of this fundamental truth, the music of Heather Stebbins can make it feel as vivid as life. Rich in timbre and exploratory in form, her latest compositions somehow involve just three main memory layers: the synthesizers Stebbins began studying in college (she teaches students at George Washington University how to use them today); the cello she took up in childhood, then abandoned in adulthood, then retrieved in recent years; and various field recordings of her everyday life — a practice Stebbins traces back to the private plot of real estate inside Maryland's Patapsco Valley State Park where she grew up paying sharp attention to the sound of the birds and the breeze. 'My formal musical training started when I was 6. I started cello lessons,' Stebbins says, 'but prior to that, I was just so absorbed in the sound of my natural environment. … Now, I'm like a hoarder of sound, always recording stuff.'
BBC News
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
The Documentary Podcast Auntie Flo: Making plants dance
Brian D'Souza, aka Auntie Flo, is a Scottish musician, DJ and sound recordist who has played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs around the world. His compositions fuse field recordings from around the globe with cutting edge production techniques to transport the listener to different places and states. He has spent the last few years trying to bring together the natural and electronic worlds, experimenting with a complex setup of sensors and synthesisers to create music from plants. Last year he released an EP called Mycorrhizal Funghi that sampled the sounds of four different mushroom species and a full-length album called In My Dreams (I'm A Bird And I'm Free), built from field recordings and genres from across the world. Tom Raine follows Brian on a trip to Kenya and Goa to conduct field recordings and create plant music for a brand-new album and a listening app he is developing. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from In the Studio, exploring the processes of the world's most creative people.
