Waiting Room 1: "Airless Whisper"

An audio essay about air, breath, voice, ASMR, maelstrom, storms, “night of the big wind”, vortex, slowed + reverb remixing, solar wind, voicenotes and the sublime.

Samples used:

Holly Herndon - Breathe / Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love / Caroline Polacheck - Breathless / Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Avec Files / Vår - No One Quite Dances Like My Brothers / Stu Kent - The Sad Decay of Something Once Beautiful / RTÉ Archives - Storms Cause Leitrim Landslide / Luc Ferrari - Sea Hole / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Little Deer Isle / Yves Tumor - Limerence / Robert Ashley - She Was A Visitor / Laurel Halo - Sick Eros / Felicia Atkinson - L’Oeil / Can - Oh Yeah / Drumloop - Forcefield / RTÉ Archives - When The Wind Wreaked Havoc / asmr zeitgeist - ASMR Power Steam to Make You Dream | Intense Tingles for Deep Sleep / Fennesz - Rivers of Sand / Bad Bunny - PERFuMITO NUEVO [slowed + reverb + stormy remix] / Johns Hopkins APL - Sounds of the Solar Wind / NASA Video - Whistler Waves Recorded by NASA’s Van Allen Probes / Noémi Büchi - Causes of Forgetfulness / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love’s Refrain / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Song of Summer / [some voicenotes from Santi] / Laurel Halo - Holoday / KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence / Yves Tumor - Economy of Freedom / Arca - Cayó / ABADIR - Ya Nasim / Ryoji Ikeda - Ultratronics 13 & 14 / Thomas Köner - Teimo [Schluss] / Tim Hecker - This Life / Nico - You Forget To Answer / OCA - HeavenCent

Community contributions by:

Emma O’Driscoll [show concept inspo] / Stu Kent [music] / Karl Maxwell [samples and feedback] / Santi Pereyra Etcheverrigaray [voicenotes] / Neil Kane [episode concept inspo]