The Farm and the City and the Radio Podcasts
These eight podcast are a conversation between three artists in three areas of the same city. Alyiah Mvita in the north west, almost at the City of Toronto’s most northern limit, Kachely Peters steps from the Rouge River in the east and Krys Verrall between them, close to the lake at the foot of the city.
Over the summer of 2020, as the initial stages of the global pandemic began to stretch through the spring and then summer months the three of us moved around our neighbourhoods, audio recorders in hand. We collected sound, reflected on our relationship to land, food, community and fear. We asked others to share their experiences with us.
Sound and visual artist Andrew Zukerman stitched our sounds and voices together.
Each podcast reproduces the space of the city, beginning with Aliyah in the northwest and ending with Kachely in the east, with Krys as a hinge between them. Each artist starts her part of the conversation with a signature sound code. Aliayh begins with “Mint leaf”, Krys with a riotous chorus of robins, and Kachely with “Grow together”.
with Claire Correia, June Williams, Jill Walker, and Rashana Youtzy
with Darren Reinhart
with Jill Walker, June Williams, Jhamela Stapleton, and Nive Sridharan
with Rashana Youtzy
with Darren Reinhart, Guy LeBlanc, and Fateha Hossain
featuring Ruby Fleet, with June Williams, Matilda Gilbert, Sofia Cardone, Sadia Fazle, and Qamar Hamadi
featuring Jhamela Stapleton and Ruby Fleet, with Nive Sridharan and Fateha Hossain
featuring Matilda Gilbert, with Rashana Youtzy and Nive Sridharan
Big Pond Small Fish invited deaf performance artist Gaitrie Persaud and interpreter Christopher Delodges to interpret and transform one of The Farm and the City and the Radio's eight sound works. Episode 3 "That's Really Beautiful" podcast Aliyah Mvita, Kachely Peters and Krys Verrall recording artists. Krys Verrall artistic director, Heather Rappard video editor, Jon Vanneste designer, Andrew Zukerman sound.
The Farm and The City and The Radio is an interactive sound work about what feeds and connects us. Over the summer and fall of 2020 Big Pond Small Fish worked with farmers, artists, a community radio station and an art gallery to create short sound works, three Farm Tour videos and three ASL accessible videos.
