Episode 166: Indigenous Wisdom Conversations: Sound as Inheritance with Catherine Gairard (Part One)
Apr 29, 2026What does it mean to own something you made — in a world where anything digital can be copied in an instant? And what does that question have to do with the music your ancestors carried? In this episode, Julia Carmen sits down with Catherine Gairard, a French-Peruvian harpist and songwriter who creates what she calls emotive landscapes — music designed to reach the places words can't always find.
They begin in the practical, discussing digital art and why proof of ownership matters more to small, independent artists than most people realize. But the conversation doesn't stay there. It moves — the way good music does — into something deeper: cultural inheritance, the difference between forgiveness and ongoing harm, and what it really means to carry a lineage forward rather than be weighed down by it.
And then there's sound itself. Catherine breaks down the science of healing frequencies — why 432 Hz feels different in your body than 440 Hz, why you don't just hear with your ears, and why the idea that music "goes through you" is not metaphor. It's physics. This one starts in the practical and walks right into the sacred.
Listen in today and join us in a few weeks as Julia continues the conversation with Catherine in a powerful Part Two.
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