TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist
The Lonely Palette

TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist

B1IntermediateApril 7, 20261 hr 35 min

"The deeper you go, the less indulgent it will be.” - Helena's stickie note Helena De Groot is an audio maker, but, really, she’s an audio artist. Her series, Creation Myth, just dropped in full as part of the CBC’s show, Personally. Personally is about the most personal experiences that audio makers that probe within themselves, laying themselves bare, for our benefit, as the best memoirs do. Creation Myth is, ostensibly, about the question whether or not to have kids. But as you’ll hear, both in listening to the series, and to my conve...

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Like this is the phase of the project where I let go of control. Not the thing I'm best at, you know, so but this is for me an exercise in in letting go of control. So I'm going to give you the reins. OK, well, this is like labor.

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Just give it over. Yeah. This is The Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one object at a time. and some days one interview about creativity, creation, and being human at a time.

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I'm Tamara Vichai. And what is about to follow is a conversation about craft and care with the audio producer, really the audio artist, Helena de Grote, whose series Creation Myth just dropped in full as part of the CBC's show Personally.

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