During the generational transition, many cultures, as if in the intertidal zone, are contemplating how to pass on their traditions and what to do. In this episode, we encounter stories of people who strive to continue the ancestral wisdom they inherited, sharing knowledge accumulated through coexistence with nature beyond mainstream worldviews regarding medicine, architecture, and agriculture. We also learn about how the new generation learns, transforms, and continues this knowledge while seeking self-identity.

01:10-Ｗe visit the Paiwan community in Lalauran, which has coexisted with the Amis people for a long time in Taiwan's east coast. They gradually establish their sense of self-identity by rebuilding the annual harvest ceremony, wearing traditional clothing, and reclaiming millet cultivation.

16:20-The Penan people in Borneo, whose livelihoods depend closely on the jungle and are one of the few remaining nomadic communities. They take only what they need to live from the jungle and their core values include "sharing" and "not taking more than necessary for survival." Let's listen to Penan elders' path to how the jungle perpetually participates in their daily food and activities and their relationship with the modernization of dietary culture.

27:07-Naming a child is an essential ritual for Borneo Highlander, Kayan and Kenya people, equating a child with the importance of their land and community. Children who have not undergone naming ceremonies are like spirits without a home. This segment shares this rarely discussed but essential tradition of the Kayan and Kenya people.

35:15-For the Penan people, having a healthy life without the jungle is impossible. The jungle is like their natural pharmacy. This session records the invaluable herbal knowledge of the Penan people, as two elders slowly open this vast medicine cabinet filled with tree roots, plant stems and leaves, petals, and spring water, sharing how the jungle heals, poisons, feeds, and soothes them.

44:40-We learn about the "River People" or Melanau tribe, who, before building their own homes, use body perception and pass down experiences through generations to find the most suitable and comfortable location and orientation in nature. This knowledge is passed down through physical experience from generation to generation.

47:54-Ｗe visit the Amis community, Madawdaw, in Taiwan's east coast, where a young man, Akac Orat, recreated the traditional Amis house-building process, showcasing the cooperative and mutual assistance lifestyle among the community (malapaliw) and the spirit of taking from and giving back to nature, as he continuously practices to find the most direct connection with the homeland.

Interviewee: Sakinu Tepiq(Paiwan), John Lu(Paiwan), Iling Luvaniyaw(Paiwan), Penan elders, Adrian Jo Milang(Kayan), Juvita Tatan Wan(Kenya), Walid Ali(Melanau), Akac Orat(Amis/Puyuma)

Interviewer: Wendy Teo, Wei Ling Hung, Yunjie Liao, Huei-Jen Lin, Sam Mei, Glee Lin

Recording: Nigel Brown, Wendy Teo, Wei Ling Hung, Sam Mei, Yii Kah Hoe

Editing/mixing/sound design: Nigel Brown

The project is initiated by The Corridor from Taiwan & Borneo Laboratory from Malaysia with support from Asia Cultural Council.

Sounds exist in many ways in our everyday lives and we use it in many ways as well, whether to express ourselves or regulate our time. In this podcast, discover how sounds resonate in the traditional and modern lives of humans.

01:09-Suryani takes us on an immersive listening of the rebab, a traditional 3-string instrument played within the traditional dance-drama performance, Mak Yong. She discusses its origins, its performative and ceremonial role in Mak Yong, and its likeness to other instruments in other cultures.

22:45-Khenpo Ugyen Wangchuk draws the connection between chakra, wind energy, and sound—and how mastering the wind energy can elevate one's presence in this world.

27:33-Take a walk with Sam Mei in the rainforest as she explains the various ways the Penan interacts, communicates, and utilitises sounds from the jungle in their daily lives.

32:48-Adrian and Juvita discuss the use of percussions in the Kayan and Kenyah communities, playing different melodies for different purposes—from the call to gather to annoucing births and deaths

Interviewee: Suryani, Khenpo Ugyen Wangchuk, Sam Mei, Adrian Jo Milang, Juvita Tatan Wan

Interviewer: Wendy Teo, Wei Ling Hung

Recording: Nigel Brown, Wendy Teo, Yii Kah Hoe

Editing/mixing/sound design: Nigel Brown

The project is initiated by The Corridor from Taiwan & Borneo Laboratory from Malaysia with support from Asia Cultural Council.

How do the spiritual, material, and natural worlds correlate and coincide in forming the culture and identity of various indigenous communities? In this podcast, immerse yourself in the wisdom shared by representatives from the Bunun community in Taiwan and the Semai, Melanau, and Borneon Highlander communities in Malaysia.

01:10-Tama Dahu from Pasikaw, the Bunun community, explains how his people derive their way of life, customs, beliefs, worldview, and identity from the forest, how changes in the forest affected the Bunun, and what they are doing for the continuity of the Bunun wisdom.

16:52-Ronnie Bahari shares how the Semai tribe, also known as dream people, uses dream to navigate their daily lives, from farming to hunting to healing.

29:51-Walid Ali talks about the Melanau tribe and as river people, what the canoe and paddle mean to them as well as being in tuned with what they refer to as 'King of the River'.

40:07-Adrian Jo Milang and Juvita Tatan Wan describe the few but highly important objects of belonging which the Dayak people hold dear to them as part of their identity, no matter where they are.

Interviewee: Tama Dahu, Ronnie Bahari, Walid Ali, Adrian Jo Milang, Juvita Tatan Wan

Interviewer: Yunjie Liao, Wei Ling Hung, Wendi Sia, Wendy Teo

Recording: Nigel Brown, Wendy Teo. Kah Hoe

Editing/mixing/sound design: Nigel Brown

The project is initiated by The Corridor from Taiwan & Borneo Laboratory from Malaysia with support from Asia Cultural Council.

In this 8 mins podcast pilot, we extracted conversations with people across different communities: A Paiwan hunter from Lalauran, Taitung, spoke about the sacred relationship with other alive beings, embodied by hunters’ gestures. A representative from Kenya, one of the Borneo highlander (Dayak) community, expressed the purpose of gong’s sound for their village as a daily ritual. The dreamer from Semai and Termiar unveiled meaningful events, signs and symbols they seek in their dream and endangered shamanistic rituals. A piece of memory about the link between paddles and after-life for Melanau, a river community based in Mukah, Sarawak.