Organic City Sounds: Recent Episodes
Organic City Sounds
Organic City Sounds aims to capture the heart of Portland in audio.
‘Weekly Portraits’ focus on a notable person, trend, or current event taking place around the city. We also feature the thoughts and opinions of normal, everyday Portlanders, and bring you homegrown sounds from around the city. The project itself is part of a larger fellowship program supported by the amazing folks at SoundCloud.
You can contribute too! Feel free to submit recordings of your own, or suggest a great Portland personality.
This week we're giving your ear-dreams a caffeinated kick-start, with our portrait all about Coffee in Portland
Join us as Organic City Sounds takes you on a leisurely bike-ride around Portland...using only raw sounds!
Enjoy.
Awkward, belligerent, drunken bar scene...luckily not involving me. by Organic City Sounds
Heart-wrenching cello busker...pretty amazing stuff. Pio Square, Portland by Organic City Sounds
This week we speak with Portland's most popular Urban Forager...What is Urban Foraging you might ask? Well, listen and find out!
Raw sound: Plastic bags that are supposed to be banned in Portland by Organic City Sounds
Construction truck wakeup @ 6:30 am. Sure seemed louder at the time. by Organic City Sounds
This week’s portrait focuses on two Portlanders at very different points in their artistic journeys, yet both deeply inspired by our city.
Obo Addie is a Ghanaian Master Drummer, and credited as one of the first Africans to popularize the genre that became known as “worldbeat”. He settled in the Northwest more than three decades ago, after becoming popular in Ghana and Europe in the early ‘70s.
Ben Larsen, only 23 years old, has been living and working as a professional musician in Portland for around a year. A mandolin virtuoso, Ben is proof that determination, hard-work, and perhaps a bit of God-given talent can allow a performer to stand out, even in a city with thousands of musicians.
This week’s portrait is an experiment in comparison. What happens when you intertwine the thoughts and aspirations of two performers at very different stages in their lives and careers? What striking differences do you hear? What similarities?
Listen and find out, on this week’s edition of the Portland Portrait.