A reading of “Little Girls,” Nikita Gale's essay on Tina Turner, Phil Spector, and the prospect of Black performers being heard without being controlled. This bonus episode follows Gale's conversation about Turner—and how the music industry det

Omniaudience: Little Symphonies, with Nikita Gale

May 28th, 2021 36m 40s

Nikita Gale speaks with Alexander Provan about Tina Turner, Phil Spector, and the prospect of being heard without being controlled. Gale tells the story of the genre-busting song that Turner and Spector, the infamous producer, recorded in 1966,

Omniaudience: Get Lower, with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

May 20th, 2021 25m 50s

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about bass as a way to repulse people or bring them together, cause aggravation or collective pleasure. Toussaint-Baptiste recounts moments in his life when bass, emanati

Omniaudience: The Dead Can Dance, with Tashi Wada

May 13th, 2021 34m 48s

Tashi Wada joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about technologies that claim to capture the souls of performers. Wada presents a composition for a “high-resolution player piano” and asks how we discern between human expression and t

Omniaudience: The Big Society, with Derica Shields

May 6th, 2021 40m 38s

Derica Shields joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about the value of listening to Black peoples’ accounts and analyses of their own lives. They discuss Shields’s book-length oral history of Black experiences of the welfare state, “

Omniaudience: Holy Ghosts, with Harmony Holiday

Apr 29th, 2021 39m 2s

Harmony Holiday, a writer, dancer, and archivist, joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about Black performers whose songs and struggles reflect the ongoing trauma of the “African holocaust.” They discuss the pressure to pander to whi

Omniaudience: Twenty Thousand Bodies Can’t Be Wrong, with Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan

Apr 23rd, 2021 29m 17s

Nikita Gale, an artist, and Alexander Provan, Triple Canopy’s editor, are the hosts of Medium Rotation. In the first episode, they ask who we are—and what we can do—as listeners, members of an audience, and bodies in concert (or in conflict).

Trailer

Introducing Medium Rotation

Apr 20th, 2021 2m 27s

A trailer for Medium Rotation by Alexander Provan, the editor of Triple Canopy and, along with Nikita Gale, host of the podcast. Why listen? That’s the question posed in the first season of the podcast, Omniaudience. The answer: we become who w