Breathing Space with Jason Singh: Recent Episodes
Jason Singh
Breathing Space is an immersive audio podcast series that celebrates outdoor spaces, sound, live performances and conversations with musician from around Scotland. Travelling from Edinburgh to Glasgow, Falkirk to Aberdeenshire, to the Highlands and on to Skye, Jason is joined by a diverse range of musicians exploring how their lives and music are inspired by outside spaces alongside playing improvised pieces in response to the environments in which they find themselves. The series' aim is to have honest and open conversations about life, music, performance and nature …all recorded using binaural immersive audio. With thanks to Creative Scotland for supporting Breathing Space.
For our final epsiode, Malin Lewis meets with Jason on the remote landscapes of Skye, and together they talk about the ideas of home, sound, and fitting in - along with some wonderful tunes from Malin's pipes.
Jason climbs under a bridge and chats with Hamish Napier - Highland storyteller, folk musician and teacher, a serious all-rounder. Follow them under the bridge to discover some of his secrets and thoughts - you'll struggle to find a greater scholar for folk music.
Check out Hamish's website - http://www.hamishnapier.com/
More info on Badenoch The Storylands App - https://badenochstorylands.com/badenoch-the-storylands-app-launch/
Jason meets with Su-a Lee, a cellist in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra who’s worked with rock and jazz musicians like Eric Clapton and Weather Report’s Peter Erskine. She speaks to us from Granton-on-Spey, about moving from Bedfordshire to Hawaii and her instrument taking her around the world.
CMS Home Concert Series - Su-a Lee with special guest Hamish Napier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQqVAmwCwo
This time we're in Alford, in Aberdeenshire, speaking to Jenny Sturgeon. Ornithologist turned musician, her and Jason meet on the banks of the river Don.
Young multi-instrumentalist Gyan Panesar invites Jason into his family home in Glasgow. Hear him jam on his saxophones and the Bubul Tarang - a unique string instrument with keys, drones, and a beautiful sound.
Astrosnax for Worldwide Glasgow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fLoiuzmqE
Semay Wu is a composer, cellist, media/sound artist and improviser and she works in theatre, dance, film as well as performing with bands and musicians. Jason travels to Stenhousemuir to meet, chat, and hear an extra-special improvised performance from her.
Jason meets Dr Diljeet Bhachu, musician, educator, researcher and activist, in the beautiful Hidden Gardens at the Tramway in Glasgow. Their conversation explores Diljeet's music practice, her faith and playing Kirtan, sacred music performed by Sikhs to worship God.
In this personal and intimate conversation, Jason Singh speaks with musician Aidan O'Rourke in his Edinburgh courtyard garden about home performance, connecting - and jamming - with his neighbours in lockdown and how he thinks about sound, interacting and responding to the environment and nature around him.