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Signalswith Lena Ortiz
A podcast by Lena Ortiz · since 2020
Slow Signals
Unhurried conversations about attention, sound and the places we pay attention in. New episodes every other Thursday, in seasons.
Season 3 · 8 episodes
- 48The sound of a roomwith Inês Carvalho, architectural acousticianEvery room has a voice before anyone speaks in it. Acoustician Inês Carvalho on churches that hum, cafés designed to feel busy, and why the quietest room she ever measured made people anxious.
- 47Inbox zero was never the pointSolo episodeA solo episode about email, unanswered letters and the difference between being reachable and being available. With three small rules I actually keep.
- 46Walking as a writing toolwith Tomás Reyes, novelistNovelist Tomás Reyes walks eleven kilometres every morning and writes for ninety minutes after. We talk about gait and sentences, getting lost on purpose, and the notebook he keeps in his sock.
- 45Small websites, big liveswith Priya Natarajan, web designerPriya Natarajan has designed personal sites for poets, bakers and one retired lighthouse keeper. Why a home on the web still matters, and what makes a small site feel like a person.
- 44What radio taught meSolo episodeBefore podcasts I spent four years at a community radio station in Hackney. A solo episode about live mistakes, the 3 a.m. listener, and why I still talk to one person, not an audience.
- 43Fado and the art of the pausewith Marta Lobo, fado singerFadista Marta Lobo on singing in a room of forty people, the silence the audience owes the singer, and why the most important note in a fado is the one she doesn't sing.
- 42Reading on paper againwith Jonah Feld, booksellerJonah Feld runs a secondhand bookshop in Porto and has watched a generation come back to paper. What changes when a book cannot notify you.
- 41The patience of mapswith Aiko Tanabe, cartographerAiko Tanabe draws maps by hand. We talk about what a map leaves out, walking a city to draw it, and the year she spent mapping one street in Kyoto.
Low Tide
A letter from Lisbon, every other Sunday.
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