This week was an introduction to podcasts for me.
Oddly so, as my mum is a radio producer and I’ve spent my entire life around the teledubs, the studio’s, watching her on location, working at her various voice-over jobs etc.. I’ve just known sound but I don’t really listen to the radio, nor have I sought out podcasts.
For me, I’ve struggled to listen to something without visuals.
I’m a visual person.
I crave it.
It conjures a feeling for me and in that development it creates music for me.
Probably sounds a little lame but for me, it’s my way.

I like to take video snippets and overlay music that the clip evokes, or create an effect that is completely different, jarring, whatever.
A friend of mine introduced me to podcasts by Ricky Gervais a few years ago.
He would discuss and ridicule a friend of his with Stephen Merchant
I find them rather amusing and have re-visited them from time to time.
Before that, I had used Pandora. Mostly for comedy.
Walking down the street with headphones in and chuckling to myself over a politically incorrect joke categorises me as the ‘strange girl who laughs’ on my street.
I was actually labelled that way once by the local store owner one day as I went in for a sourdough.

I’ve also noticed that after the portrait interviews, I’ve been a little more attentive to sound.
As my grandparents have been ageing, I’ve asked if I could record them. Met with confusion, ‘what for?’
Old school Austrian’s, wretchedly modest – their lives are worth documenting, I tell them.
Furrowed brows and the waving of their hands, brushing their accomplishments aside, I’m not deterred.
I’ll be back in a couple weeks with my recorder.

Colour me inspired.