SpHEARS (2018 - 2020)
A live broadcast radio show hosted by SMFA 1630 AM in Boston that invited artists, writers, curators, and filmmakers to discuss a sonic experience, song, or film clip that informed their practice. Sound can be the train that takes you to faraway places, and this is one aspect of the show that Academy Records liked to promote. Using sounds offered by the show’s guests as a point of departure, each weekly episode included complementary tracks selected by Academy Records to expand on ideas and concepts that came from conversation.
Season II of SpHEARS was cut short due to a technical issue and then came the pandemic times. In the radio broadcast’s stead, SpHEARS also hosted a Quarantine Video Round Up on its Instagram feed. Guests were invited to discuss a film they feel was inspired viewing during this “shelter in place” we found ourselves in.
”In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, SpHEARS is temporarily on hiatus. Check our Instagram QVR posts for guests’ posts on thematic cinema to watch while on lockdown”.
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or a full list of each seasons’ guests and songs selected scroll to the bottom of the page.
SpHEARS episode 8:
Tom Thumb’s Blues with Jim Woodside (clip).
Jim Woodside is a painter from Massachusetts. He chose a track by Bob Dylan to discuss in relation to his practice. In this clip we talk about the testimonial in country music it’s relation to painting and the character of landscape itself.
