About

Travel with your host, Carrie Katz, aka Midnight Rose, into the realms of betwixt and between, on the threshold that is The Fertile Void.

Somewhere between an ending and a new beginning, we enter the dark space where it is easy to lose our footing, but it is in this chrysalis that transformation becomes possible. The concept of The Fertile Void exists in cultures around the world, within and around us. 

Come along as we traverse this mysterious territory through original stories, interviews, and sonic landscapes, at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, religion and spirituality, biology, physics, ritual, architecture, mythology, art and music, and beyond. 

Season One: The Coveted Silk

We highly recommend you listen in order from the beginning.

We are all born with an internal compass. How do we listen to and trust it? How do we stray from it, and find our way back?  How do we retain our connection with the wild that is inside and around us? Enter a web of interconnected stories by author, psychotherapist, and musician Carrie Katz, where fairy tale, myth, and dreams blur with personal memoir, tracing the author’s process of transitioning out of a twenty year relationship...with music, spiders, and other surprises…all woven together through the other worldly sonic landscapes of Dan Cantrell.

Produced and written by Carrie Katz
Musical direction: Dan Cantrell
Musical composition: Dan Cantrell and Carrie Katz, plus guest musicians
Creative support: Daniel Ari 

A brief orientation to what The Fertile Void Podcast is about.

Additional music by Lila Sklar & Patrick Cress
Episode 2 Notes

Additional Music by Beth Vandervennet, Lila Sklar, Patrick Cress, Laura Inserra
Episode 3 Notes

Additional Music by Valentino Peeps & Beth Vandervennett
Episode 4 Notes

Additional Music by Beth Vandervennett & Laura Inserra
Episode 5 Notes

The Team

Producer, Writer, composer: Carrie Katz

Carrie Katz is a somatic (body-oriented) and expressive arts psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, and a writer, composer, singer, and musician, founder of the Pagan Lounge ensemble Rosin Coven and The Fertile Void Ensemble. She is also the mom of two awesome teenagers that teach her about life every day.

Psychotherapy practice  embodiedbeing.net

Rosin Coven: rosincoven.com

Music director, composer: Dan Cantrell 

Dan Cantrell is an Emmy award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his innovative film scoring approach, and his virtuosic abilities on the accordion, piano, and musical saw. Dan is appreciated by directors and collaborators for his collection of odd instruments from around the world, his love for the idiosyncratic and flawed beauty found in live acoustic performance, his exploration of haunting and mysterious ambient sound textures, and a proclivity for experimentation with arcane recording techniques. His resulting compositional artistry supports hundreds of cinematic works and performances, and his orchestral and chamber music have been performed with The Oakland Symphony, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Washington DC's Kennedy Center, among others. Dan's compositions for film and television have earned him numerous awards including an Emmy Award and a Golden Gate award.

bellowhead.com

Creative support: Daniel Ari 

Poet laureate of Richmond, CA, Daniel writes, publishes and performs widely. He teaches performance and generative writing at The Writing Salon in Berkeley, his Richmond home and elsewhere. Daniel produced The 2017 Richmond Anthology of Poetry, the city's first, representing its diverse voices. 

danielari.com

Photo by Steve Haimovitz 

Contributing musicians

Lila Sklar   

Patrick Cress 

Laura Inserra

Beth Vandervennet

Valentino Peeps

Website

Images: Ann Arden McDonald

Web Design: Michele Friedman