Welcome to the FutureStops podcast
The FutureStops podcast offers an inspiring, in-depth and informative look at the present and future of the pipe organ. Our guests include world-famous organists and composers as well as lesser-known experimentalists in every corner of our world, each breaking new ground for the organ in fascinating ways.
Join host Blake Hargreaves as he unlocks the mystery of the ‘king of instruments’ on our biweekly podcast, available on all leading podcast platforms or right here on our website. Subscribe today!
Episodes
Ep.36 – FutureStops Festival!
In the final episode of Season 2 (time flies!), we share clips of 5 artists who will be performing at the 2022 FutureStops Festival in September.
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Podcast Crew
Blake Hargreaves
Host
Since 2016, Blake Hargreaves has been recording improvisations on the world’s pipe organs and composing original works for them. The project seeks to find new sonic and conceptual/spiritual approaches to the instrument and individual spirituality, and is depicted in the upcoming documentary Searching for the Sound. His album Improvisations on the Pipe Organs of Europe, released on Ultra Eczema in 2019, was reviewed in Boomkat as “Among the most enchanting recordings of organ music we’ve heard (…) timeless and haunting”.
Hargreaves directs the Fluorescent Friends label in Montreal, and has been the Co-Producer of the annual Cool Fest concert series since its inception in 2007. His other projects include releases on labels like Ecstatic Peace!, Olde English Spelling Bee, American Tapes, and InYrDisk, and he has been featured in publications like The Vice Photo Book and The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music.
Andrew O’Connor
Producer
Andrew O’Connor is an independent radio producer, and sound artist based in Toronto. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio.
Andrew’s work has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally as well as featured in the Radiophrenia Festival at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Third Coast Filmless Festival at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Andrew currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called DISCO 3000 on his long running, clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio.
Meet Some Of Our Podcast Guests
