This summer has been ridiculously, painfully, destructively hot.  So what do we do? The only thing we can -- we make music. Even here in North Carolina, where it's been raining so much that I often have a moat around my house, it's still hot as blazes (a

Late summer is its own phenomenon, where the heat settles in, the colors slowly begin to fade and turn golden, and a few leaves already start to fall. As high summer wanes and the light begins to change, the colors of the earth change. Early harbingers o

Every now and then, it's nice to take a quiet day. Here in coastal North Carolina, it's been raining for weeks on end. Today brings that kind of gentle rain that makes it a good day to stay inside. On such days, one is inspired by gentle pursuits: readin

On this edition of At Water's Edge, we bring you another challenge! This is the first of a series of field recording challenges that we have put out, and it seemed appropriate to do this during high summer. Glenn Sogge caught some lovely, dense sounds in

This week's show theme suggested itself through the weather. It's been raining off and on for a few days, and the sound of it is rather wonderful here. We feature music of Max Corbacho, Dan Pound, Sensitive Chaos, Robert Rich, Janne Hanhisuanto, Robert Ca

Today's topic was elusive. Something about summer heat, but that might have been too obvious, not to mention overdone. Okay then, something else about being near the water? Yawn.  But then Mom mentioned the local tales of Blackbeard the pirate, his treas

Today's episode of At Water's Edge is called "Origins"; we explore our roots, our beginnings, our origins. That can take many forms, depending on your personal mythos, so we go exploring in the Garden, in polar ice, in the stars, in the roots of trees, an

Another of our challenges here on At Water's Edge, today's program, 52 Stories Up, only received two responses (and they're GOOD!), so most of the show is devoted to tracks that tell stories. The challenge was... well, challenging. A few months ago, I po

This is a podcast-only episode. It's a protest show, a prayer, a hope, a rant, a wish, an exhortation. Given all that's going on in the U.S. this past week or two, your host couldn't remain silent. So this program is one long wish to Give The Children

Take Two! Continuing the previous episode's collaboration challenge and theme, we bring you more tracks by two or more artists -- two of which were created specifically for the challenge, and the rest from the RadioSpiral library or elsewhere around the i