A Canon of Growing Echoes

A podcast by Ben Chan exploring and building legacy, myth, violin, and AI - in real-time.

Start with The First Echo to understand the foundation of everything that follows.

Episode 6

The "Author Ship"

A diegetic escape story blending practice, improvisation, and human agency against automated control, revealing how constraint and collaboration spark true innovation.

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Episode 5

Time Enough

A reflection on the hidden interest of living on borrowed time, where work, family, and self become a lifetime of deferred choices and emotional mortgages.

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Episode 4

Emotion

A deep dive into emotional storytelling, vulnerability, and how music becomes the language of feeling.

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Episode 3

Dynamics

Exploring the tension between control and surrender in music, relationships, and creative expression.

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Episode 2

Practicing

What if practice doesn't make perfect — just permanent? Ben explores how repetition can encode emotional rigidity and technical failure.

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Episode 1

Ben Chan and YY

What if your first storytelling partner was a stuffed squirrel? This episode introduces YY, the thread running through Ben's entire identity arc.

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Episode 0

The First Echo

Welcome to YY and Me — a podcast about identity, imagination, and learning out loud. This opening episode is both manifesto and experiment.

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