ArTEEtude Podcast

ArTEEtude: Art, culture and the creative mind. Never so close again. – with Detlef Schlich

ARTEETUDE is a West Cork–based podcast by visual artist Detlef Schlich, exploring the shifting intersections of art, culture, technology and the creative mind.

Together with Sophia, his AI co-host, Detlef enters a conversational space where art history meets neuroscience, shamanic ritual encounters digital culture, and human imagination confronts artificial intelligence. Reflective, humorous and sometimes deeply personal, each episode investigates the forces shaping creativity, perception and contemporary life.

Drawing on his practice in performance, photography, painting, sound, installation, film and media archaeology, Detlef treats the podcast not simply as a format, but as an artistic space in its own right — a place for philosophical inquiry, cultural critique, guest conversations, listener questions and poetic speculation.In a world driven by speed, distraction and surface-level connection, ARTEETUDE slows things down. It looks beneath the noise and asks: What does it mean to create today? How do technology and consciousness transform one another? What happens to spirituality in an increasingly digital culture? And where can the human soul still find resonance?

Whether you are an artist, a thinker, a technologist or simply curious about the mysteries of creativity, ARTEETUDE invites you into a conversation where art, mind, body and machine meet.

Can a place listen?Following The Skin That Listens, Detlef and Sophia carry their exploration of vibration, memory and reception across the Atlantic to Cape Clear Island — Oileán Chléire.An island has no ears, yet it continuously receives: waves, weather, footsteps, languages, stories, warnings and songs.In this episode, Cape Clear becomes a living archive. Its ancient stone markings, oral traditions and maritime signals reveal how places preserve traces even when their original meanings have been partially lost.A former lighthouse once transmitted a warning from the island’s highest cliffs, but mist often prevented the signal from being seen. That contradiction becomes the philosophical centre of the episode:

A lighthouse says: Keep clear.

A story says: Come closer.

The episode also looks ahead to the WAW Keep Clear Tour 2026, beginning at Club Chléire on Wednesday, 12 August, with Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer—Detlef’s “better WAW half.”WAW reached No. 1 in Neil Quinn’s Cork Playlist last year and No. 2 this year. Their new song, When the Tide Knocks at Your Door, receives its spoken-word premiere in the podcast before being performed musically for the first time on Cape Clear.The closing track by Los Inorgánicos, After the Signal, remains deliberately atmospheric:The listeners receive the words first.The island receives the music.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/arteetude-a-podcast-with-artists-by-detlef-schlich/exclusive-content

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#ARTEETUDE 346 – Detlef Schlich and his Co-Host Sophia carry their exploration of vibration, memory and reception across the Atlantic to Cape Clear Island — Oileán Chléire. The episode also looks ahead to the WAW Keep Clear Tour 2026, beginning at Club Chléire on Wednesday, 12 August, with Schlich and Dirk Schlömer.

August 9, 2026

Detlef Schlich

#Arteetude 345 – Schlich and his AI co-host Sophia explore the relationship between hearing, touch, vibration, bodily rhythm and memory. The episode concludes with the new song by Los Inorgánicos: When Silence Moves

August 2, 2026

Detlef Schlich

#Arteetude 344 – Schlich and his Co-host Sophia move beyond the ear and discover the body as the true receiver of music.

July 26, 2026

Detlef Schlich

#Arteetude 343 – Detlef Schlich and his AI co-host Sophia travel much further back and ask – What existed first: sound or the receiver? Can sound exist without someone—or something—capable of perceiving it? Was the first instrument a body?

July 19, 2026