Shaped By Sound

Shaped by Sound spotlights North Carolina’s thriving music scene, featuring artists from a broad range of genres, including indie rock, hip-hop, R&B, alt-country, jazz, bluegrass and folk. Each episode weaves a visually stunning live studio performance by an NC artist or band with an intimate conversation about their creative journey. Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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Created By	N.C. Music Office
Status	Returning Series
Original Name	Shaped By Sound
First Air Date	February 6, 2025
Last Air Date	March 19, 2026
Seasons	2
Episodes	26
Episode Runtime	0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
Production Companies	N.C. Music Office
Networks	PBS

S02E10

Skylar Gudasz

“It’s wild, the ways that humans try to make boundaries out of things,” Skylar Gudasz says. With her third LP, COUNTRY, (“Best of 2024” —Bandcamp) she interrogates borders of land and sea, mind and body: the limits of the lines we draw for ourselves. Raised in rural Virginia, a deep, lifelong affection for nature comes into focus; her approach informed as much by a summer night sky as the pacifist tenets of a Quaker upbringing. Gudasz released 2020’s Cinema (“a career-making star turn” —MOJO) after 2016 debut Oleander (“the Joni Mitchell the South never had” —Bitter Southerner). Playing in the live bands of Hiss Golden Messenger, Eric Bachmann, Big Star’s Third, and the Ask Me Anything super trio with Libby Rodenbough and Kate Rhudy, she’s staked out her own poetic corner as a songwriter – drawing upon rootsy surf, witchy rock & roll, cinematic Southern twang and dreamy art-pop.

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