Podcasts
Welcome to the new podcast offered by the Museum of East Asian Art. We aim to publish regular podcasts on our website featuring subjects relating to East Asian art and our museum.
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1. Building the collection
Our first podcast features the Museum’s founder and Honorary Keeper, Brian S. McElney, talking about how he came to collect East Asian Art and found the museum.
Listen to the podcast
(5.6 MB mp3 file, 19 minutes 14 seconds)
2. Emiko Izumi performs traditional Japanese songs on the Koto
Emiko visited the museum in November 2007 and agreed to record four songs for our podcast and talk about her life and work.
Listen to the podcast
(5.75 MB mp3 file, 20 minutes 05 seconds)
The following are the songs recorded by Emiko
1. Hana
2. Kojyo No Tsuki
3. Chidori
4. Azatoya Yunta
3. Stephanie Hiller performs on the shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute)
Stephanie visited the museum in June 2008 and we recorded her concert. The podcast is an extended extract from the concert.
Listen to the podcast
(7.35 MB mp3 file, 25 minutes 45 seconds)
The following are traditional Japanese tunes recorded by Stephanie.
1. Hon Shirabe
2. Komoro Bushi
Visiting Tibetan monks perform the opening ceremony chant
From Tuesday 14th October to Sunday 19th October 2008, the Museum of East Asian Art played host to eight monks from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India.
Over the course of these six days the monks created a sand mandala at the Museum, performed an opening dedication ceremony, a number of workshops and a destruction ceremony.
(3.7 MB mp3 file, 13 minutes 6 seconds)
What is a podcast?
A podcast is a form of radio programme that you can download from our website onto your computer. You can listen to podcasts on your computer or copy the audio file (mp3) to a portable mp3 player or ipod.
How can I listen to the MEAA podcast?
There are two ways to listen to our podcasts, click on the links to open an audio player and then click on the play button or download the mp3 audio file directly to your computer. The downloaded file can then be played by opening it with any media player (e.g. Windows Media Player, i-Tunes, Real Player etc). Alternatively, you can subscribe to our podcast here.
To save any podcast on this page, right click the link and choose ‘Save target as…’ from the menu.
The MEAA Podcast is supported by Renaissance South West through Bristol’s Museum, Galleries & Archives.
