Search

The Roaming Ear

Victoria Fenner collects sounds the way other people collect photos. The Roaming Ear is a collection of her travel sounds, composed into documentaries and audio portraits of places here and far away.

 

Format : Travel

Add to iTunes

Internet Radio
Podcasts

Internet Radio
Radio Search
Music
News
Sports
Regional
Religious
NonTraditional
Most Popular
Today's Buzz
Add Station

Podcasts
Podcast Directory
Genre
Regional
Most Popular
Add Podcast
Today's Buzz
Tech Support
Firefox Plugin

TV (Coming Soon)

Videos (Coming Soon)

Contact


The Roaming Ear, episode 10: Street Music Manifesto
Updated: 2011-10-21 16:38:31
Description: Victoria Fenner's ideal streetscape includes music. "Street Music Manifesto" is part of the project Soul of the Street, a project of The Factory Media Arts Centre in Hamilton, about arrival, displacement and transformation on James Street North, the ...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

The Roaming Ear - Episode 9 - 'Will you buy?'
Updated: 2010-08-05 13:31:21
Description: When you're on vacation, the low prices of weavings, jewellry and other crafts is tempting.  But how do we make sure we aren't getting a bargain at the expense of somebody else? A replay from The Green Planet Monitor Radio Series where Victoria ...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

The Roaming Ear - Episode 8 - "Christo, las flautos y The Chicken Bus"
Updated: 2010-08-03 16:50:47
Description: A collection of some of Victoria's favourite sounds from Honduras and Guatemala.  Chickens, birds, kids, really noisy birds, raking coffee and a Lenten pageant complete with monks, grotesque statuary and sousaphones....more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

Episode 7 - Portraits of Appalachia
Updated: 2009-12-09 20:04:55
Description: From the place where southeast Kentucky meets Southwest Virginia, an audio portrait of the twisting, curving roads of the Central Appalachians and the surprises you can hear when you surrender to the (almost) eventuality of getting lost.  And a ...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

Episode 6 - Two from South Asia
Updated: 2009-08-27 17:23:31
Description: Victoria revisits her trip to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and plays two of her favourite docs. 00:00 - Intro, welcome 2:45 - Medicinal Herbs - traditional herbs are being harvested, providing health and economic solutions for some of South India's poo...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

Episode 5 - Meeting Place - Parliament Hill
Updated: 2009-07-26 16:50:34
Description: A Day in the Life of Parliament Hill:   10 am - The Changing of the Guard - because the Queen liked it and so do the tourists noon - The Protests (because our MPs are on lunch - no point yelling at them when they're in The House yelling at each ...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

Episode 4 - Soundwalking
Updated: 2009-06-18 16:45:23
Description: 1:13 - what is a soundwalk, influences, Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project 4:26 - Andra McCartney, sound artist and soundwalker - soundwalks as meditation 7:22 - Styles of Soundwalks 10:12 - Dave Kattenburg of The Green Planet Monitor so...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

Episode 3 - Three Squares on the Tundra
Updated: 2009-05-24 19:24:28
Description: 1:56 - Stocking up at the SuperCentre in Edmonton 3:00 - at the airport -- eggs are not convenient as carryon 4:00 - good food on Canadian North Airlines (should be for $1500 return from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay) 4:54 - grocery shopping and prici...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

The Roaming Ear - Episode 2 - The Edge of Extreme
Updated: 2009-04-30 14:40:04
Description: In September of 2003, Victoria Fenner and her partner Barry Rueger were invited to come up to Cambridge Bay and help the volunteers develop their radio station CFBU.  This piece explores some of the sounds outside the radio station .. the wind, ...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD

These are a few of my favorite sounds - episode 1
Updated: 2009-04-17 20:09:19
Description: Victoria picks her favorite memories from over 20 years as a radio producer and field recording technician. Stories abound. Her ears are well tuned to hear the world in a surprising way. She doesn't just present the sounds as she hears them. She tur...more...

LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD