The Ministry of the Counting Sheep

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The Ministry of the Counting Sheep is a six-episode sleeping podcast series created by six artists from around Victoria: Regan Shrumm, Alex Chen, Monster Boy, Matt Howells, Keira Ash, and Aliya Amor. Published by Integrate Art Society, a non-profit arts society focused on strengthening the arts community in Victoria, BC.

Episodes

  1. How does our Culture Affects our Sleep?

    03/02/2024

    How does our Culture Affects our Sleep?

    Join Aliya Amor to learn from osmosis, absorb the information from the world around us while we switch to our unconscious brains. Learn about how our culture affects our sleep while easing into a guided sleep meditation to relax you into dreamland.

    40 min
  2. Stories from When the World was New

    03/02/2024

    Stories from When the World was New

    Join Keira Ash as they reads out stories from When the World was New: Stories of the Sahtu Dene by George Blondin and they creates ASMR sounds from her beading supplies.

    21 min
  3. The Sleep History of Sheep and Fibre Arts

    03/02/2024

    The Sleep History of Sheep and Fibre Arts

    Travel through time with Monster Boy as he describes sheep and human’s relationship to these domestic animals. Monster Boy narrates how we gather this wool and all the different ways we have found to use it over thousands of years. All while Monster Boy works on his own wool, needle felted project in the background.

    33 min
  4. Nocturne – Bach & The Soundscape

    03/01/2024

    Nocturne – Bach & The Soundscape

    Leave behind the buzz of the city and enter the nocturnal world of crickets, owls, foxes, hawk-cuckoos, and nightjars with Alex Chen. Guided on a sonic journey with J.S. Bach’s aria Schlummert ein, cross paths with nighttime wildlife making their nightly rounds.

    22 min
  5. Voyager Golden Record

    03/01/2024

    Voyager Golden Record

    Listen to curator, Regan Shrumm, explain the concept of the podcast and launch into the sounds of the Voyager One Golden Record. Sent into orbit in 1977 by NASA, the Voyager Golden Record was created as a way to communicate to extraterrestrial life forms. Filled with music, sounds, and images of human life, the record is currently the furthest human-made object from Earth.

    16 min
  • 5 Episodes

About

The Ministry of the Counting Sheep is a six-episode sleeping podcast series created by six artists from around Victoria: Regan Shrumm, Alex Chen, Monster Boy, Matt Howells, Keira Ash, and Aliya Amor. Published by Integrate Art Society, a non-profit arts society focused on strengthening the arts community in Victoria, BC.

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