Jerry Rothenberg (poet, anthologist), Rip Hayman (composer, sound artist, publisher), Gideon D’Arcangelo (technology architect, experience designer), Paco Underhill (sociologist, entrepreneur, author), Annea Lockwood (composer, sound artist), Karin Bacon (event designer, producer, costumer), Jaron Lanier (musician, virtual worlds innovator, author), Steve McCaffery (poet of word, sound, image, performance), Gerd Stern (poet, art technology pioneer), Michael Gerzon RIP (inventor, sound recordist, poet), David Toop (musician, author, teacher), Christopher Wangro (event producer, musical instrument builder), Stephen Vitiello (musician, sound artist, curator), Diana Deutsch (music psychologist, teacher), Stephanie Morrow (marketing strategist) Gunnar Wille (artist, author, teacher), anthropologist, arctic specialist), Brian Katz (acoustician), Paul Geluso (sound engineer, author, teacher), Dan Neafus (planetarium technologist, organizer), KaChun Yu (astrophysicist, planetarium technologist, author), Martyn Ware (activist musician, sound artist, podcaster), Michael Schumacher (musician, sound artist, curator), Pamela Z (composer, sound artist), Miya Misaoka (composer, sound artist, teacher), Tim Ventimiglia (architect, museum designer), Monica Bolles (sound engineer, sound artist), Alan Nursall (science media reporter, planetarium director), Jamie O’Boyle (author, cultural literacy consultant, venue design), Margaret J King (author, cultural literacy consultant), Robin Sip (fulldome show producer, founder of Mirage3D) Barry Threw (curator, producer of new media) Henry Stewart (immersive media producer), Ian McClennan (designer of planetariums), Louis-Philippe St Arnault (artist-technologist) Thomas Kraupe (planetarium director, curator), Luc Courchesne (artist-technologist), Anne Stenros (activist architect, designer), Carlos Casas (multimedia artist-technologist), Stewart Bird (multimedia artist-technologist), Pierre Brand (sound engineer, planetarium shows), Travis Price (architect, author, speaker), Micky Remann (producer, immersive experience designer), Annie Mitchell (light artist), Jenny Woo (director of immersivity at IBM), Martine-Nicole Rojina (sound engineer, artist technologist), Sjoerd Postema (event & co-living producer, virtual world developer), Philippe Grotsch (physicist, oceans analyst), William Fitzhugh (anthropologist, arctic specialist) & Phil Niblock (composer, filmmaker, director of Experimental Intermedia).
Episodes

Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Jaron Lanier - Co-Founder of Virtual Reality 1
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Charlie & Jaron Lanier, pioneer of virtual reality, met in the late 1970s at Rip Hayman's famous Ear Inn in New York. Jaron worked on EAR Magazine and created a cover with New York’s subway stops as musical instrument play buttons. He jammed in the Ocarina Orchestra. Jaron shares his earliest experiences with immersivity and some of his latest work.
Read entire interview pdf here
* production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

Saturday Mar 19, 2022
The Gerzon Factor - Ambisonics & Immersive Sound 0
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Pilot broadcast of the immerse! podcast series is a special 80-minute celebration & investigation of the life & work of audio pioneer Michael Gerzon, inventor of Ambisonics & lossless audio, which revolutionized recorded sound. The podcast series launch came in conjunction with the immerse! online event: Celebration of the Vernal Equinox & Michael Gerzon on Sunday March 20, 2022.
Read entire transcript pdf here
* production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

iMMERSE! Sound Light Space
CHARLIE MORROW, Composer-sound-artist-eventsmaker, investigates immersion in 40 interviews with his past collaborators, all luminaries in the fields of immersion including music, events production, architecture, anthropology, archaeology, visual art, psychology, literature, performance, sound engineering, 3D technology, artificial intelligence, marketing ...
The series commences with the nearly 80-minute "The Gerzon Factor" & will continue with uniquely produced & focused interviews at regular intervals, averaging 25-45 minutes.
Read more about Michael Gerzon in Jon Kalish's PC MAGAZINE article
Read “Charlie Morrow, Sonic Nomad,” bart plantenga, Musicworks.