Sounds Interesting

A defiant chorus of sonic art bears witness to a border town tormented by a mysterious presence in their local soundscape.Hosts Peter Boisseau and Gabrial Hutchcraft explore the entanglement of life and art in this poetry and music-infused journey that includes Protomartyr, Windsor Hum Band, Brian Garbet, Christine Hume, Eric Welton, Adam Makarenko and Jamaal May. For the people of Windsor and nearby Detroit on the US Canada border, the stakes surrounding a mysterious intruder in their local soundscape has become a contest of wills spanning more than a decade. It's a contest that's pitted neighbor against neighbor, city against city and nation against nation.The struggle has become the stuff of legend, a David vs Goliath tale of citizen action, environmental studies and viral media coverage, that over time has inspired music, lyric essays and other forms of sonic art.The latter is the Ode to the Hum, the clenched fists and raised voices of resistance to a sonic plague, a defiant human chorus confronting sound with sound.Looming over this intersection of life, art and torment: The cinematic specter of Zug Island and the notoriously secretive U.S. Steel works factory, the alleged source of the Hum.But something else inhabits this soundscape. In the space of uncertainty between knowledge and opinion, perception and reality, the question remains: Is the Windsor Hum gone or is it still lurking?Sound Design: Brian GarbetSocial Media: Bernadette RillorazaTheme music: PlaydateEpisode guest presenter: Bernadette RillorazaTwitter: @Sound_Pod (soundsinterestingpodcast) IG: @Sound_Pod (soundsinterestingpodcast) FB: Sounds Interesting Podcast

Pete and Gabe share ghostly recordings from the reputedly haunted Merritt House in St. Catharines, ON. as they investigate electronic voice phenomena (EVPs), sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices within ghost hunting and parapsychology. The house was built in 1860 for William Merritt and his family to replace a previous house that burned down.Merritt House has served multiple purposes throughout its history, including as a convalescent home for soldiers, an inn, and a radio station, which it remains today.A series of tunnels connecting the house to Twelve Mile Creek were rumored to be used for the Underground Railroad and during Prohibition.The EVPs were captured between 2001 and 2004.Special thanks to Haunted Hamilton and lead investigators Daniel Cumerlato, Stephanie Leichniak and psychics Michele Hewer and Kate Dejonge.

The Windsor Hum strikes an ominous tone for those who feel stalked and haunted by the mysterious legend, but it has also inspired a dynamic and defiant chorus of sonic art. Coming soon wherever you get your podcasts!

In the amazing and emotional origin story of the podcast, Peter reveals the very personal reasons he is so curious about sound, and how his partner's battle with epilepsy began a journey of loss and recovery that inspired the creation of Sounds Interesting.Using a combination of personal narrative and interviews, Mozart & Michele tells a remarkable and moving story.As a black woman living with epilepsy, Michele is determined to overcome the barriers and prejudices she deals with every day on her own terms. As she navigates a dizzying array of medications as well as pressure to submit to risky brain surgery, she turns to use music as a refuge from her epileptic seizures.Her partner for more than 12 years, Peter witnesses her struggles and shares her joys as they create a soundtrack for their life, one that Michele definitely prefers has nothing to do with classical music.In an incredible turn of events, the healing power of music becomes part of a series of life and death questions for Peter, who is relying solely on intuition.Only the answers are even more astounding as years later, a still-grieving Peter has a chance meeting with the authors of a new study suggesting listening to Mozart can help reduce seizures. They become guests on a new podcast inspired by these real-life events, a show about sound and its curious powers.

Epilepsy and music researchers share new discoveries and host Peter Boisseau reveals the deeply personal reason he is fascinated by sound in this inspiring episode coming March 23

Peter, Shyloe and Gabe hear startling revelations as they compare two UFO incidents, 40 years apart, both involving the U.S. Air Force, where audio recordings may be the most important part of the evidence.The show opens with a sizzle reel of astounding audio recordings made nearly 40 years apart; one in the woods of Rendlesham Forest in the U.K. in 1980 and the others by fighter jet pilots encountering UFOs that were released by the Pentagon in 2021.  The events in Rendlesham Forest were captured by U.S. Air Force Col. Charles Halt, deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk using a handheld recorder. The remarkable 18 minutes of audio allows listeners to hear in real-time Halt leading a group of military police and soldiers from the base as they search the woods of nearby Rendlesham Forest for signs of a crashed aircraft, only to encounter something that seems otherworldly instead.Stunningly, the encounter, the tape recording and Halt's subsequent report – the now famous Halt Memo – were largely ignored the U.S. military, who passed the incident off to their counterparts at the U.K. Ministry of Defence.Sounds Interesting interviews Halt and plays his hair-raising original audio recordings as he details how he naively trusted his superiors, only to be betrayed. He confesses that the UFO encounter still haunts him.We also hear from Nick Pope, a former civilian investigator with the ministry who examined the case and concluded the audiotape was a very important part of the evidence.Pope also compares the Pentagon's handling of the jetfighter cockpit recordings to the way they treated Halt and his taped evidence. The Pentagon has been widely lauded for showing “transparency” for releasing the fighter jet recordings, and admitting they have no idea what the pilots encountered.But Canadian researcher and ufologist Chris Rutkowski – who has donated more than 30,000 of his UFO investigation files to the University of Manitoba – shares a startling revelation in his interview about the Pentagon transparency theory. The Curious Case of the Rendlesham Tape is a real whodunit played out in sound that will leave you asking: What do your ears believe?

We'll be back on Feb 8 with our first episode of Season 2, an audio mystery you won't want to miss. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

The critically-acclaimed indie podcast previews its return after a pandemic hiatus with an intriguing lineup of upcoming episodes, including the amazing and moving origin story of the podcast in Mozart & Michele, a deep dive into the wave of sonic art inspired by a community's mysterious soundscape in Ode to the Windsor Hum, and the Curious Case of the Rendlesham Tape, a UFO whodunit played out in sound that will leave you asking: What do your ears believe? Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Shyloe and Peter learn to use sound baths to ease anxieties during the time of covid-19 quarantine with the help from yogi and sound bath instructor Michaela Bekenn.

From Beethoven to miracle tones and synthesizers to bass, Canadian media icon George “Strombo” Stroumboulopoulos offers Shyloe, Pete and the show’s listeners an intimate tour of his life’s soundscape and how he uses sound and music therapy to soothe concussion symptoms and so much more.

As Shyloe and Pete continue to explore our relationship with space sounds, they encounter the threat of aliens as they probe questions about balancing the quest for exploration and discovery with our moral duty to future generations.This episode includes interviews with PhD Kathryn Denning, a professor of anthropology at York University, SETI researcher and space ethicist, Bryan Gaensler an astronomer at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Astronaut Jennifer Sydey Gibbons from the Canadian Space Agency.

Shyloe and Peter boldly go where no podcast has gone before, talking to astronauts, astronomers and cosmologist and examining NASA recordings as they search to understand sounds from galaxies far, far away as well as our solar system.

Hosts Shyloe and Pete as they investigate electronic voice phenomena (EVPs), and the sounds, stories, and science behind them.

Sounds Interesting is a show about all-things sound. The show's focus is on our relationship with sound, whether scientific, social, psychological, cultural, spiritual or just plain fanciful. Most of all, we'll be having fun exploring everything and anything that Sounds Interesting.