Listening with China Blue is a podcast about listening. In this podcast the artist China Blue interviews musicians, artists, filmmakers, teachers, Buddhists, psychiatrists, business leaders and culture creators about how listening leads to creativity, innovation, change and happiness.
Listening with David Sulzer Neuroscientist, Musician & Author
What if music could reveal not only how our own minds work, but also how other species experience the world?
In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with neuroscientist, musician, and author David Sulzer, also known as composer Dave Soldier, about the mysteries of musical perception and the surprising connections between human and animal minds.
From exploring how our brains recognize and respond to music before conscious awareness to creating music with elephants in the Thai Elephant Orchestra, David challenges us to reconsider what listening means across species.
Can elephants and birds experience music as we do? What does music reveal about intelligence, communication, and consciousness? And might listening help us recognize forms of awareness beyond our own?
If you've ever wondered what music reveals about the mind and whether other species experience sound as we do, this episode is for you.
30 Sept 2026
Listening with Andrea Nann, Dancer & Choreographer
What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms?
What if listening isn't something we do only with our ears, but with our entire bodies—and with one another?
In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with dancer and choreographer Andrea Nann about embodied listening: the ways we perceive through breath, movement, energy, sensation, space, and our awareness of other people. Andrea describes listening as the foundational capacity of improvisation: the practice that allows us to enter uncertainty without already knowing what comes next. We explore how movement can emerge from attention rather than instruction, how our bodies carry the archives of our lived experience, and how listening together can transform separate individuals into participants in something being created collectively.
If you've ever wondered what becomes possible when we listen with our whole bodies and allow our response to emerge from what is happening now, this episode is for you.
14 Sept 2026
Listening with Jim Nollman, Interspecies musician and Grammy Award nominee
What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms?
In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I talk with Jim Nollman, Grammy award nominee, musician and creator of "Orcas Greatest Hits", about music, orcas, and listening across species.
We explore what happens when music becomes a meeting place between species: how Jim Nollman improvises with orcas, how he recognizes when an animal is responding, and what decades of listening have taught him about communication, intelligence, agency, and consciousness.
Our conversation asks us to consider whether meaningful communication with other species begins when we stop expecting them to communicate on human terms, and whether listening itself can become a form of relationship.
If you’re curious about what animals can teach us about listening, this episode is for you.
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