The Plainclothes: Tapping the Audience

The Plainclothes: Tapping the Audience

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/2f/74/42/col29082/1400x1400_11930342.jpg] Returning as the High Performance Rodeo's official Listeners in Residence, The Deep Field is going undercover. With you from your front door to your theatre seat, to the bar and back home again - we're listening in on your night out. Blending on-site reporting with the up-close sounds of wild theatre, The Deep Field will capture, boost and remix the Rodeo audience. Come hear what we overhear.

s2e2: You Are Here Too: Recalling The Whaler

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/2f/74/42/col29082/1400x1400_11195083.jpg] If you’ve ever seen Michael Green do 'The Whaler,' you have every naked detail etched in your mind. It was wild theatre at its hilarious best — wet, nude, and undeniable. During the 30th Annual High Performance Rodeo - Calgary's International Festival of the Arts – The DFP Team were Listeners in Residence, recording on location, gathering your tall tales of Michael Green’s ‘The Whaler’. We borrowed your voices and built a chorus. A cacophony. A sea shanty. At a Listening Party of this episode, held on January 29th 2016, we celebrated YOUR remembrances, YOUR belly laughs, and YOUR voices shouting out “I AM THE WHALER!” one or two – or a hundred – times more.

s2e1.5: Renderrabbits

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/2f/74/42/col29082/1400x1400_11167124.jpg] In this short preview episode of our collaboration with the High Performance Rodeo, we chat with Tyler Longmire – animator of Renderrabbits. He may never have seen the performance in person, but he spent many MANY hours with The Whaler. Catch Episode 2 You Are Here Too: Recalling The Whaler in two short weeks!

s2e1: Secret Talents!

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/2f/74/42/col29082/1400x1400_11093878.jpg] Welcome to Season Two of The Deep Field Podcast. In our first episode, we celebrate the hidden, hard won and often hilarious skills, knacks, and know-hows that we all possess. Featuring the stories of a second-place aeropress world champion, a former Guinness world record holder, a high school drama class, a Governor General Award-nominated playwright, and a hive of busy bees. What's your secret talent?

Sky Sounds Pt.3: Look Down

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/2f/74/42/col29082/1400x1400_10781539.jpg] In our final episode of the Sky Sounds series, we thought we’d try something a little different. Based on an interview with Boyd Nave – the resident ‘Butterfly Man’ at the Calgary Zoo – we bring you an original story called “Look Down” by local artist Ellen Close. In it, one species reaches out across the void to another seeking little more than a bit of understanding. This is the final episode of Season One of the Deep Field Podcast. We look forward to returning with new stories in the fall of 2015!