Infinite Crescendo

Carly Jo Carson & Paul Butler
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When we set off to collaborate with artists, healers, and music-makers to craft what we call Microjourneys, serving as a microdose of our longer breathwork ”Arcs”, we discovered in talking with each creative partner that the dialogs themselves were as rich and potent as the Microjourneys. And so these podcast conversations were born.

  1. E012 - J'aime Morrison

    09/24/2024

    E012 - J'aime Morrison

    LA-based theater director, choreographer, filmmaker, dancer, and surfer J’aime Morrison describes the experience of losing her husband Jim to cancer as one that “unmade” her. In the slow process of remaking herself, she turned to film—a discipline that was then new to her. Her instincts told her the learning curve and necessity of a team would help her get back into her body. And, that film would help her share the multisensory story of how surfing and the sea were healing her. In this Infinite Crescendo Conversation, the Cal State Northridge professor tells Carly about her short film Upwell, and about her Mourning Surf and movement-for-grief retreats, which help others find what their bodies are feeling. Together, they listen, hold, and honor those embodied emotions—while they ride the waves.  Also in this episode: Details on our upcoming retreat and teacher training in Portugal.

    41 min
  2. E011 - Sibyl Buck

    08/20/2024

    E011 - Sibyl Buck

    As a model in Paris in the ‘90s, Sibyl Buck walked all the legendary runways and was photographed by the greats. But those things didn’t click into place until she took the risky move of being herself. Her agency wanted her to be pretty, but she wanted to be Sibyl: fire engine red hair (before everyone was doing that) and old flannel shirts and piercings. Turns out, the world wanted the real Sibyl, too. Now, facilitating Regenerative Integration at the New Paradome, her permaculture farm in Topanga, Sibyl is listening to own inner voice and fully loving her true, sovereign self.   And at 52, this iconic beauty is still walking the runway for designers Vivienne Westwood and The Row to name a few.  In this deep dive conversation, the woman who first introduced Carly to breathwork talks about sitting with suffering, ditching the inner critic, and cultivating devotion to all that comes into your life asking to be seen.

    1h 6m
  3. E010 - Josh Brolin

    07/12/2024

    E010 - Josh Brolin

    Josh Brolin demands emotional intimacy. He’ll admit not everyone can meet him there, but that’s what he’s come to understand as his own baseline. In this very real iteration of what the Infinite Crescendo Conversation world is all about, Carly gives the actor and seeker space to share what’s in his past, what’s in his present, and what’s on his heart. As they move through time from his surf-punk drug haze —when it seemed no one wanted what he wanted to offer—to that very Hollywood cliche where every potential relationship was transactional, we bear witness to what it’s meant for this particular human to find himself, to share himself, to be himself.

    1h 11m
  4. E009 - David B Smith

    06/17/2024

    E009 - David B Smith

    Beginning with conceptual themes and abstract ideas and moving from there to intuitively sourced imagery, Brooklyn-based artist David B. Smith constructs soft, colorful sculptures that both relate to and resist the glitchy white noise of the omnipresent world. David’s cozy but also dizzying installations often become environments for live sound in real time, and he and Carly share an affinity for inviting audiences to use their voices. In this dialog about art, performance, and personal exploration, what Carly and David are ultimately exploring is journey design: the process of creating pathways for themselves and others to explore freedom, safety, expansion, and the knowledge inherent in our bodies.

    55 min
  5. E008 - Lita Albuquerque and Jasmine Albuquerque

    05/27/2024

    E008 - Lita Albuquerque and Jasmine Albuquerque

    Making good on our promise to continue honoring mothers this month, Carly sat down with Lita Albuquerque—who’s been making art of the body, earth, and universe since the 70s—and her dancer and choreographer daughter Jasmine Albuquerque. In a dialogue that moves from Malibu to Tunisia to the outer planets, and from everyday parenting to cosmology, culture, and conceptual art, the women touch on the micro and macro of expression, togetherness, and care—and the true art of honoring ourselves and each other (and in particular our children and mothers) for who we are.

    1h 3m
  6. E007 - Reflections - Mother

    05/11/2024

    E007 - Reflections - Mother

    This episode isn’t one of our usual Conversations, but the first of a series of what we call Reflections, in which we embrace the ever-present opportunity to find gratitude for all mothers—perfect and imperfect, absent and present, received and chosen, familial and spiritual, God Mothers and step mothers. Carly reflects on her own difficult but beautiful relationship as a daughter and as a mother; the wild love, the raw edges, the big, vulnerable truths. And then: A special Infinite Crescendo Microjourney crafted from Carly’s own lullaby for her girls layered with voices from the community, sharing from the heart. It’s a gift, in audio form, and it’s meant to guide you toward whatever it is you might like to affirm, expand, shift, or hold as your own experience with the mothers surrounding you and the mother within.

    24 min
  7. E006 - Kelsie Moore

    05/07/2024

    E006 - Kelsie Moore

    In a world that values clearly defined brands (personal and otherwise) but also rewards jack-of-all-trades who jump from one modality to the next, creative growth can be tricky. As Australia-born filmmaker and vocalist Kelsie Moore attests to here, our continual unfolding will ask us to stay open. Our offerings will only take the shapes they’re meant to take if we allow them the space and freedom to expand and shift. These lessons came, in part, during one of Carly Jo’s Heart Song retreats; and, in part, over years of filming the Emmy-award winning documentary The Gerda That Remains, a study of one woman’s memory loss and the dichotomy and partnership of the heart and the brain.

    44 min
  8. E005 - Elena Stonaker

    04/22/2024

    E005 - Elena Stonaker

    As if it’s not enough that artist Elena Stonaker’s finely sculpted and intricately beaded fabric pieces are like, “big arms to hold you,” she presents them in sonic, immersive spaces that foster a new world feeling and a powerful sense of discovery and connection. In fact, that act of bringing people together with sound, sensation, and shared experience is a kind of parallel to Infinite Crescendo—which isn’t surprising given that Elena and IC co-founder and Conversations host Carly Jo Carson are best friends. As the two Angelenos talk through a relationship rooted in art and expression, they touch on mothers, daughters, early childhood education, workshop environments, and the kind of sisterhood that emerges when two people see and support one another in their visions and desires.

    43 min
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When we set off to collaborate with artists, healers, and music-makers to craft what we call Microjourneys, serving as a microdose of our longer breathwork ”Arcs”, we discovered in talking with each creative partner that the dialogs themselves were as rich and potent as the Microjourneys. And so these podcast conversations were born.

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    Carly Jo Carson & Paul Butler
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