Category: Sound Art

• A Quiet Day

  

  Thoughts on a drizzly afternoon.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 9, 2025

  Arts, Nature, Sound Art, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  Arts, creativity, hard timees, nature, stories, Summer

• All Things Arise and Fade Away

  

  We awoke to bright sun, instead of the forecast dense cloud. The birds have been oddly quiet after being rowdy yesterday. As we watched, a starling stuck its head into the sparrows’ bird house, perhaps after chicks or eggs, then flew away. Now the sparrows are chirping loudly. This morning I sat down in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 28, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Cycles, denial, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  chance, change, evolution, natural systems, nature, Sound Art, writing

• Deportation Echoes

  

  A soundscape in response to he Supreme Courts ruling on Deportations.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 20, 2025

  Cycles, denial, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Racism, Terror, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  Deportations, healing, History, racism, stories, terror

• On the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

  

  This week marks the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. It is also a week in which many countries are jailing and deporting persons they define as other. The othered are also allowed to die of thirst in the desert or drown trying to cross bodies of water. Once again, Fear roams the land.…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 29, 2025

  Social issues, Sound Art

  Deportations, Non-Persons, The Holocaust