I was doing a little housekeeping with the web sites I host through my company, MWS Media, this morning, and clicked around to see what folks were up to.
In doing so, I was treated to a song by a shaman in Pulau Pagi… three minutes of sounds I never would have heard — from a culture I would never have experienced even in this small way — thanks to this remarkable, unifying magic called the Internet.
Listen. While you’re at it, poke around at the rest of Jason Benjamin Ponce’s emptyset.org site (it’s anything but!) and see a little of the world he’s been lucky enough to see, and generous enough to share with us.
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hi matt,
just found myself mentioned in your blog. thanks for the kind words, and i’m really glad you enjoyed the field recordings! we are such a visual culture, but using sound as a context for travel is always something i’ve enjoyed. pictures are great too of course, but they only represent a single moment in time. but sound is a time machine – i can relive whole days the case of some of my longer recordings. and there is something beautiful about remembering long lost and unphotographed travelling companions only through their voices.
anyway, glad to share.
jason