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The PAUSE with Ari Clibe
Ari Clibe hosts conversations for a more human world. As always, in the sanctuary for the wild ones.
Episodes
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Unspoken Sounds of Somatic Silence: Composer David Shea on Listening, Failure, and Compassion, Part Two (S4E6)
Can we listen deeply without compassion? And what happens when the lives we've composed leave us with regret? In the second of two conversations, composer…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Unspoken Sounds of Somatic Silence: Composer David Shea on Listening, Failure, and Compassion, Part One (S4E5)
What if listening isn't something we do with our ears, but something we experience with our entire bodies? Composer, improviser, and educator David Shea joins…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeFried Grief: Performance in Two Voices on Work, Worth, and Belonging (S4E4)
What happens when being useful becomes the price of belonging? In Fried Grief, Ari performs a two-voice dialogue between his former identity Andy and current…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeWhat the Baby Body Remembers: Choreographer Alexandra Beller on Intuition, Movement, and Memory (S4E3)
Choreographer, author, and movement analyst Alexandra Beller joins The PAUSE for a conversation about intuition, surrender, and the body’s memory. She recounts…
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Wild Intelligence: What Humans Do Better as AI Gets Faster, with Asher Crispe (S4E2)
What kinds of intelligence become more valuable as artificial intelligence gets faster? Technology futurist and self-described “free-range chicken” Asher…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeListening for Footsteps: A Ten-Year Old Singer on Attention and Play, with Virginia Sexton (S4E1)
The premiere episode of Season Four begins in Denver with ten-year-old returning guest Virginia “Ginny” Sexton. Before heading to Red Rocks, Ginny sings, talks…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Singer and the Silence: Interviews with Podcast Host Jessica Wan and Author Joel Beverly (S3E13)
The Season Three finale brings together two people whose practices appear very different. Jessica Wan is an opera singer, a coach, and the creator of The…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeDouble Shot of Sunshine: Interviews with Alex Dally on Music and Sue Spolan on Artificial Intelligence (S3E12)
Discover the benefits of participation in making creative culture within community. Listen to two conversations in one episode.--Cohegent's Sue Spolan on…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeFrames of Immediacy: Speed, Culture, and Digestion, with Artist Elysia Mann (S3E11)
Elysia Mann is a visual artist, printmaker, weaver, educator, and environmentalist with a distinct voice emerging from her sense of place in Knoxville and the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeRitual of Wine: Sommelier Maja Roy on Earth, Belonging, and Wonder (S3E10)
Born in Slovenia into a family devoted to crystal glass making, Maja Roy is now a Knoxville sommelier and wine travel guide who leads a creative ritual of wine…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeAll Good Things Come Round Circle Modern: Choreographer Angela Hill on Dance, Family, and Commitment (S3E9)
Angela Hill is a choreographer, dancer, social worker, somatic therapist, and she also is the current president of Circle Modern Dance of Knoxville. In this…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeConfusion is a Way into Awareness: Shakti Ma Michelle on Yoga, Healing, and Creativity (S3E8)
Shakti Ma Michelle, creatress of Shakti Buffalo yoga, wants us to wake up to our creative nature. She relays her personal story as a yoga teacher today who…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeEmergency Exit Only: The Analysis of Human-Centered Robotic Movement, with Catherine Maguire (S3E7)
Not for the machines, definitely for us. Leading proponent of creative sovereignty, Catherine (Cat) Maguire shares her story as a dancer, choreographer…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeBig Ears Voices: Bootlegging the Big Ears Festival 2026 (S3E6)
Not only was Big Ears a big hit this year, but Ari found the small niches of music that needed to be shared. From Gwenifer Raymond's self-taught guitar…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeListen with Big Glass Ears: Our Top Ten Artists at Big Ears Festival 2026 (S3E5)
Ari and friends share their Top 10 lists of artists they want to experience during the annual Big Ears Festival 2026 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite rampant…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeI Can’t Afford to Work for $15 an Hour Any More: Dancer-Choreographer Jill Frere on Work, Worth, and Woe (S3E4)
In this episode of 'The Pause: Sanctuary for the Wild Ones,' Knoxville artists Jill Frere and Elysia Mann share unique narratives that blend personal journeys…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThere's So Much Fun Here: Writer-Performer Sarah Ledbetter on Play, Narrative, and Nature (S3E3)
Sarah Ledbetter who has been with us twice before joins us again embodying and extending a new improvisational storytelling container. An original story is…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeYou Know My Name: Singer-Songwriter Becki Grace on Love, Grief, and Courage (S3E2)
Becki Grace grew up in Maryville TN just outside of Knoxville. She is a therapist, singer songwriter, radio show host, and activist. In this episode we explore…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeDouble Shot of Moonshine: Interviews with Singer Virginia Sexton and Chef Laurence Faber (S3E1)
The PAUSE kicks off its third season with two on-location interviews -- one with Virginia Sexton of Sheboygan, Wisconsin and then the follow-up interview with…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Spoken Wild Dance of Disappointment
Ari welcomes relationship back into the creative space of the listener community. Disappointment is reframed as spoken word poetry and reconsidered as a…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeBreak-In Remix, Unresolved
During this unexpected pause between seasons of our show, Ari breaks into a mix of an earlier episode. Despite the disruptive nature of break-ins, Ari marks…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeBONUS: More Smoke from Coffee County
Found deep in the cutting room, Ari Ash and Aim's investigative journey to Coffee County rises again. Slightly awry, their search for clues to the mysterious…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeInterview with Laurence Faber, Knoxville Creator of Deli(cious)
Ari pauses to explore the kitchen of Potchke Deli and its streamlined operations through the fascinating lens of its creative visionary. Why have so many…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeDumbo: The Light Feels Radioactive (S2E13)
Season Finale - Ash unearths the crux of Ari's conflict with neighbor Ron which leads to his exodus to the neighborhood of Martin. Unfortunately more conflict…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeMittelschmerz (S2E12)
Mittelschmerz (s2e12) is one-sided, lower abdominal pain associated with ovulation. German for “middle pain,” Mittelschmerz occurs midway through a menstrual…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeFresh Squeezed Lemonade (S2E11)
Despite a successful day as preacher, Ash unexpectedly takes Ari the church layman to Knoxville's First Creek for a teaching he will never forget. Fortunately…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeSouthland Under the Overpass (S2E10)
In a roar of unresolved power dynamics, Ari and Ash follow a trail of kudzu vines onto a steep incline of echo under the I-40 overpass. Fortunately they feel a…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeFree Speech in the Belly of the Studio (S2E9)
While Ari and Ash entertain the wild sides of prayer and manifestation, Ash reveals she's lost one of their friends to freedom and ASMR. Unfortunately Ari…
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Interview with Kaitlyn Corse, Transformational Travel Coach
Join me as we pause to consider how travel and transformation recombined to guide those longing to connect not consume being with earth.
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Mayor is Back, Back Again (S2E8)
Ari Ash and Aim order coffee in a drive-through in Coffee County. While Ash experiences fear with the police, Ari becomes the land and insists on his…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeWild is the Wind (S2E7)
Unfortunately, Ari and Ash conduct a funeral for a friend. But fortunately, it also becomes a celebration of life. Unexpectedly Ash remembers her middle school…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeSmoke in Coffee County (S2E6)
Where there's smoke, there's fire. Ari, Ash, and Aim set out to investigate the unresolved death of the mayor from 2024. Ari learns to kiss his ash goodbye as…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeLawnmower Friends (S2E5)
Ash trashes Ari and Aim about lawns and lawnmower friends on their drive around Knoxville following an investigative journalism field research trip. While Aim…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeI Need Us to Slow Down (S2E4)
Flooding alert!! Not your typical flood waters. This is the new kind of Southern Appalachian flooding that happens in Knoxville and beyond. It's part of the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeMore with Mo Squito (S2E3)
Learn between the turns with Mo Squito as Ari seeks common ground in community with Stephen playing another flying friend; Sarah whacks another gestalt poem…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeLive from Knoxville, It’s Thursday Afternoon (S2E2)
Deep within the multiverse of radio, conflict is reimagined as a dynamic creative force of emergent play and growth, living in the multitude of voices and…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeSeason Two: Premiere for a Glass Ear (S2E1)
Season Two Premiere, broadcasted live on Thursday, 31 July 2025, Ari and Ash reunite after a month-long summer break. Ari shares his musical work-in-progress…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeTuesday Teaser >> The Name is Pause, Right?
sound sample // mixed by ari, voices by ash and ari and addair, recorded at Radio KCM studio, Knoxville
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeBack from the Prairie in Prayer (S1E13)
Whack leads Ari down the path of no return. The woods weep creepy heaps of powerless promises. Parrots profess portentous popcorn while Ash perpetuates profuse…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeTuesday Teaser > Back from the Prairie in Prayer
Whack deeply apologize for these creepy heaps of powerless promises. Parrots profess portentous popcorn. Ash perpetuates the tour with The Black Lilies while…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePart Two: Walkin' with Whack (S1E12)
Ari shares how to pray with food as Whack honors her ancestors' sacred recipe. Walk on the wild side of the goddess within any head of cabbage. Listen and…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeTuesday Teaser > Part Two: Walkin' with Whack
Fortunately the full episode will air on Thursday, 17 July 2025 > Unfortunately you will have to listen online at www.radiokcm.com or on-demand at…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeWalkin' with Whack (S1E11)
Ari pauses with Whack walking and gets mixed up in the hair of themes of singularity vs. duality, creativity vs . kinship, and bird of crows vs. bird of…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePart Four: Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePart Three: Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeMore Residue of Pleasure (S1E10)
Heck, trash is trash. Listen. You know who you are. You like the dirty pleasures of it all. You know, like, sometimes you are driving down the road in Knox…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeBONUS Clip: Previously with the Piss Ant
For Patreon and Substack subscribers only, unless you have a special code or you like smoking flower with piss ants between runs.
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeResidue Roulette (S1E9)
Hot fun in the Knoxville sun. Ash expresses her anger caused by some incompetence by a so-called advocate while Ari discusses Rage Becomes Her book by Soraya…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePart Two: Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeChrysopoeia (S1E7)
Ari and Ash fish for gold inside their anatomies. Ash shares her tales of nipple milk while Ari shares his tales of liquid gold plus secret recipe for his…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeWhack Invades Your Feed--Major Announcement
Just in! Whack has flown the coop and between beers and cigs, she's got something you don't want to miss.
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeInterview with Sparrow, Photographic Eye of an Artist
Pause with Sparrow (aka Aimee) Knoxville-based photographic artist who invests in visual storytelling--documentary style--by immersing in the imagery of…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeInterview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeThe Residue of Pleasure (S1E8)
Ari and Ash compile clips from the first three episodes from Season One highlighting the developing relationship between them.
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePreviewed: Interview with David Shea, Compos(t)er of Decomposed Cultural Production
How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibePause Again Go There In Situ with Sarah Ledbetter
Ari and Sarah go there, again. They deepen their conversation around creative process and what place means in today's world of safety and risk, loose and…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeField Notes to The PAUSE episode "Shh Whack"
Whack hacks Field Notes to The PAUSE. Two unnamed voices from a remote sector of the multiverse explore the forest of the "Shh Whack" episode of The PAUSE…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeShh Whack (S1E6)
Ari and Ash randomize the preamble. Whack gets a promotion. Iron John initiates the youngster to the perils and pleasures of the golden well. The chatbots set…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeInterview with Jill Frere, Mover of Wild Adventure
Join us as I pause with Jill Frere, movement artist, yoga teacher, Buddhist, and community activist among other talents, who previews her current dance work in…
The PAUSE with Ari ClibeInterview with Sarah Ledbetter, Wild Weaver of Webs
Sarah Ledbetter is a highly creative and insightful somatic therapist as well as movement artist and writer currently based in Nashville, originally from…