Jian Ghomeshi has resurfaced with an online music and podcast series.

The Ideation Project is described by the former CBC Radio host as “a creative adventure with the aim of taking a bigger picture view on newsworthy issues and culture.”

It will feature words, original music, recording and production by Ghomeshi.

The project debuted this morning with a six-minute monologue called “Exiles” that asks “what does it mean to feel like you have no homeland?”

The website says future content will cover “a variety of topics from politics to philosophy to pop culture and the human condition.”

Ghomeshi’s return to the spotlight comes about a year after being acquitted of sexually assaulting three women. Another charge of sexual assault against him was withdrawn last year after the former CBC broadcaster apologized to a former colleague in court and signed a peace bond.

He was fired from the CBC in October 2014 after the broadcaster said it saw “graphic evidence” that the former Q host had caused physical injury to a woman.

The podcast’s first episode consists entirely of Ghomeshi himself, musing about ethnic and national identity in the modern world. “For first or second generation immigrants, it’s natural to identify with others being targeted or caught behind walls. We realize that this could easily be us,” he says. “But then, in a globalized world, where migration is now fluid, who is beyond reproach? Who is an authentic American or Canadian . . . with a moral claim to the land?”

Two of the women who alleged to the Star back in 2014 that Ghomeshi assaulted them had different reactions to his podcast.

Ghomeshi’s come back is “essentially the tale of an out-of-touch middle-aged guy who produced a voice recording of a poem in his home studio,” said one woman after listening to the short podcast. She said she wished the media was not covering this, calling it a “nonstory.”

Another woman said she remains afraid of Ghomeshi but “I do not hate him.” She said that when she heard he had a “new project” she was pleased that he was “not letting his many talents dissipate because of past behavioural errors.”

“For myself, personally, his voice was once my favourite but now I can’t listen to it.”

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Ghomeshi’s twitter site had about 400 followers by late afternoon Monday. It began with one early Monday morning.

With files from Star staff

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