Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes

Brian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences^[link1], takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within Harnetty’s musical compositions. [...]

In this episode, we share a Phantom Power exclusive: a brand new narrative piece that Brian created about the making of his record. “Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes” is much more than a behind-the-scenes look at Brian’s process. Harnetty’s audio diary is its own moving meditation on Merton, solitude, sound, media, and the self. https://phantompod.org/merton/