The Missing Sock: Recent Episodes
Mieke Kooistra
This is an artist' podcast series of sounds, sonic sketches and storytelling mostly around odd things, unpaired elements and randomness. A missing sock, lost sock, or odd sock is a single sock in a pair of socks known or perceived to be permanently missing. ...
The Missing Sock Hotel Lobby Series transports you to places around the world, offering to hang out in hotel lobbies without the hassle of travelling.
The lobby is nothing, yet it is everything. It is passing through on your way to somewhere. It is waiting for someone or something. It is a place for meeting people and coincidence to happen. It is a place to relax and observe and to listen.
A lobby is a reminder that we are not on our way to somewhere, but we are right there where we are at the present moment.
Soundart is about deep listening and being closely aware of your surroundings and to let life slow down to its natural pace.
Als de zon opkomt boven het beboste landschap van centraal Bali in Indonesië geven de geluiden het verschil aan tussen dag en nacht.
This episode is in Dutch
When the sun rises over the tropical landscape of central Bali the sounds indicate the shift between night and day: the concert of frogs, crickets and cicadas subside, jungle fowl and birds wake up and a concert of humming, thrumming, buzzing and chirping starts. In the midst of all this the domesticated rooster functions as the most reliable of alarm clocks.
Tropical forests are under threat. In Indonesia alone, each year more than one million hectares of rainforest is cleared and forever lost. Corporate greed and weak laws allow the oldest living eco systems to become plantations, to be logged for wood or burned to create new farmland.
The occasional noise or muffle made by the recording equipment show the human presence in this delicate space -both as the rescuer and destroyer of the last areas of natural habitats.
Soundart is about deep listening and being closely aware of your surroundings and to let life slow down to its natural pace.
For many of us travelling is still a scare or an impossibility. But who does not harbour a secret longing for the hollow footsteps across faux marble floors, the trolleys, the sound of the lifts, the coffee bar and piped in Kenny G with the Titanic theme song on a loop?
The Missing Sock brings you The Hotel Lobby series. This Episode: Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Lobby is nothing, yet it is everything. It is passing through on your way to somewhere. It is waiting for someone or something. It is a place for meeting people and coincidence to happen. It is a place to relax and observe and to listen.
A lobby is a reminder that we are not on our way to somewhere, but we are right there where we are at the present moment.
Soundart is about deep listening and being closely aware of your surroundings and to let life slow down to its natural pace.
A random sketch in Dutch about the supposed blessings and pitfalls of cyber commuting during a pandemic