Mouth Sounds

A weekly radio show for vocal performance, audio language art, experiments in choral music, poetry, speech acts, documentary, field recordings, and conversations with artists and writers.

Mouth Sounds is broadcast live on Fridays at 3pm EST on the wonderful, non-commercial radio station WAYO 104.3FM in Rochester, NY and streaming online at wayofm.org. Selected episodes are below, all past episodes are archived on the show page here.

Episode 35

sweet teeth, prose picture books, and abundant ums with readings and conversations ahead of a Zaftig press prose/poetry/performance event with Christine Green, Michaela Chan, and Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson

Episode 32

Artist Hernease Davis live in the studio discussing misophonia, polyphonic hums, loops, feeling with, alone time, church singing, sax solos, and so much more, plus her selected playlist

Episode 28

funerals and ripe pears, bwah wahs, Stripsody, chalk boards, factory work, John Cage's diary, strong winds, denim hats, bounce explosions, and more

Episode 20

Suuuuuuun, wild Appalachia, much Black Mountain College, youth choirs, good ole Creeley, the Dymaxion man, Cage mouth sounds (always), Maximus Olson’s laughter, ballad singers, lots of Sallys, lots of speakers, the Palestinian prisoner poet’s freedom, and more

Episode 15

The OG mouther, rejoinders, disrupted speech, sidewalks, the other OG mouther, diagrammatic singers, gender spectral soundings, a kid on a sick day grabs the mic, beaten books, out there footworker, blue note raids, insane beat box, and more


Episode 10

Winter Solstice special (sort of) with weather reports, dark church choirs, blood circulation, drones, Bob Ross, sonic comfort and more

Episode 5

Troubles, harmonizing language poets, nonsense words, perception plays, sine chants, memory mash-up words, electronic choirs, hushes, polyphony (is polyamory), porn kisses, not words, and more

Episode 1

A live stream of the Genesee River by artist Amanda Turner Pohan (https://betweenscyllaandcharybdis.pohanamandaturner.com/) other bodies of water, boats, typewriters, photographs, and more

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