Outside Music Inside the Golden State
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsInterviews with creators of experimental, contemporary classical, noise, freely improvised, or otherwise outsider music in California. A podcast by Eliot Burk. Artwork by Z.A. Stenger.
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Jeremy Haladyna
January 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBInterview originally recorded March, 2021. Eleven trips to the Mayan region and an investigation of some 35 years into Precolumbian thought have indelibly marked and changed the work of this U.S.-born composer. Haladyna’s Mayan Cycle now stretches to thirty-five highly distinctive pieces, including such titles as Zaquico’xol, El Llanto de Izamal, The Maya Curse Pedro de Alvarado, Pok-ta-Pok, 2012, The Oracle of 13 Sky, Copal, and the Jaguar Poems. Among the most novel features of the Cyc...
Joel Feigin
December 26, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBInterview originally aired July 5, 2021. Joel Feigin is an internationally performed composer, whose operas, chamber, orchestra, and piano works have been widely praised for their “very strong impact, as logical in musical design as they are charged with emotion and drama.” (Opera Magazine). Feigin’s opera, Twelfth Night, based on Shakespeare’s comedy, was produced in North Carolina, Chicago, and southern California, where it was hailed as a “glittering masterpiece” by critic Dan Kepl. E...
Anaís Azul
May 07, 2022 20:00 - 57 minutes - 39.9 MBPeruvian immigrant Anaís Azul (they/them) is a California based singer-songwriter, composer, and teaching artist. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” their artistry engages with music as a tool for community building, cross-genre collaboration, and collective healing. Azul writes music that is in conversation with looped vocal harmonies, classical melodies, and Latin American singer-songwriter traditions. Their songs are bilingual (Spanish and English) and about mental health, ...
Dylan Marx
January 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBMoths, Clownfisher, Dylan Marx, The Sandman, Oracle of Light, Purveyor of Goods, Great Overtaker, Stopping by for Soup, Standing on the Corner with a Glass of Water, Dumping it out on the Sidewalk, missed the plants, missed the plant, went back, wrote a postcard, postmarked it, forgot to address it, sitting in a big mail room waiting to be sorted, sort of open to that Pieces Featured: Chan Hey, Salon La The Beating Lola Everything's a Calculated Risk Ferrarelle e Borsec Then Ago ( ) http...
Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble
September 13, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBThe Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble (LAEE) was founded in 2018 by its core members Zaq Kenefick, Christina Lord, Marcus Carline, and Glen Grey. In this episode, the group discusses how they first came together, their aesthetic goals for the ensemble, their process for writing and developing new compositions, and their debut album LAEE, which released January 2021. Pieces Featured: contact astronauts we study improvisation for guitar, mandolin, and two laptops https://laee.bandcamp.com...
Daniel Newman-Lessler
July 16, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBDaniel Newman-Lessler is a composer, conductor, pianist, singer, educator, and dabbler in watercolor and pastels. His compositions have been performed by players and ensembles across the country, and impressively he has also found repeated success as a conductor and performer. We met at the California Institute of the Arts, where he is currently a Lilian Disney Scholar in the MFA Performer-Composer program. In this conversation, we talk about his collaborations with other luminaries in ...
Andrew Kaluzynski
June 30, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBAndrew Kaluzynski is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist living in Oakland, CA. Andrew's music endeavors to explore relationships between gesture and feedback, and the effects of aleatoric input on improvisations and compositions. Andrew often employs the use of obsolete and/or idiosyncratic technology as a means of restraint, inspiration, and focus, in order to cultivate a live electronic music practice. Music Featured: The Resettlement Corps Tensed Time https://andrewkaluzynsk...
Alex Hawthorn
June 24, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBAlex Hawthorn is an Artist, Composer, and Technologist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. His work interrogates notions of archive and memory, bringing together aspects of traditional composition and experimental sound design with elements of photography, videography, and other forms of digital media. In his solo work, he combines elements of old and new technologies: traditional orchestral scoring, solo piano performance, field recordings, and various synthesis techniques, to create works...
Andrew Barnes Jameson
April 15, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBAndrew Jamieson: composer, improviser, & bandleader of the Avant-Gospel Trouble Ensemble. We talk about dialogues in music and community, race relations in American music, cultural appropriation, and musical accountability. Andrew even does a live improvisation near the end of the interview! Music Featured, in order heard: Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round Deep River Daily Improvisation No. 249
Scott Perry
March 29, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBScott Perry earned his PhD in music composition from UCSB in 2019. He holds a BA from UCSB (CCS), an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a MA from UC Davis. His teachers include Beverly Grigsby, Jeremy Haladyna, Kurt Rohde, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger, Pablo Ortiz, Mika Pelo, David Rosenboom, Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow. Pieces featured, in order heard: Continuum Music One Three Spells Regression, Tone Painting for Orchestra Study in A-Rhythmicon Study in C-Utona...
Jeremy Rosenstock
February 26, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBJeremy Rosenstock is a composer, pianist, and installation artist in California. In this episode, originally aired 11/30/2020 on KCIA, we talk about his compositional outlook, Simone Weil, socialism, listening to sound on its own terms, a piano department, and many other things. You can also hear some selections of his great music! Pieces featured, in order heard: Renunciation of Time (unreleased) cairn eight: i ice transducing, 5.13.20 https://jr0se.bandcamp.com/ https://issuu.com/jeremyr...
Alison Niedbalski
February 11, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBToday's episode features Alison Niedbalski and the band she leads "qualia." Alison's music is tagged on bandcamp as: experimental, jazz, progressive death soul, torch gospel, great American songbook, and new wave old fashioned. Some of the things we talked about: covering Captain Beefheart songs, the legacy of Carla Bley & Annette Peacock, the effect of trauma on the creative process, many friends, and we preview a track for her upcoming record "Beside." Check it out! Songs Featured, in ord...
Tim Rowe
January 26, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBTim Rowe is a drummer, painter, video maker. His video series "How to Play the Drums by Tim Rowe" uses all those mediums and others to touch upon subjects from the silly to the historical to the philosophical to the purely musical. We talk about his careers as a drummer & painter, how he makes his videos, why he makes the artistic decisions he makes, his personal connection to & political views of 9/11, and also a little about the rest of his life. Videos featured, in order heard (or ment...
Cheryl E. Leonard
January 13, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBCheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments, and often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. We talk about her time at Palmer Station in Antarctica, her instruments built from natural objects, Tenaya ...
Nathan Corder
December 27, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBNathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people. Our chat covered topics like performer agency & control in composition, fixed media composition vs. composing for people and/or objects, and nontraditional ways of conceiving rhythm and musical time. Pieces featured, in order heard: Untitled (for string trio and electronics) Appetite Push Lockstep
Christoffer Schunk (Chris Sunk)
December 15, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBChristoffer Schunk is an artist based in Los Angeles. His portfolio vacillates between audio and theater, resulting in intricately staged productions, films, and sound art. His audio compositions incorporate almost everything: theatricality, humor, strange instrumentation (farts, hunting calls, dolls, to name a few), noise, and many other things. We talk a bit about content production on the internet, his switch from experimental music to TikTok videos, and of course how he writes his mus...
Pander Sera
December 06, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBPander Sera is a noise-pop artist from the LA area. Our conversation touches on topics like practical uses of magic, equipment which grants a view on infinity, gender transition, pop punk as a modern folk music, and many other interesting things. https://pandersera.bandcamp.com/ https://pandersera.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8uxKf6JYUIR5tUjKm-v_g https://soundcloud.com/pander-sera https://vimeo.com/pandersera Pieces & songs featured in this episode, in order: Yard Work Con ...
Memory Leaks Onto The Rug
December 06, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBMemory Leaks Onto The Rug is secretive and anonymous artist who has been recording tapes onto tapes since 2014, these days out of Santa Cruz, California. In this interview, originally aired 10/5/2020, we talk about some of their recent and older music releases, how they make music, names, and about birds and plants and places. Check out their bandcamp: https://memoryleaksontotherug.bandcamp.com/ Their YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqpT7ChVWDfJabui-D98UA Their SoundCloud: htt...
AbstractJak
November 28, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBComposer/sound artist Dr. Ron K. Sedgwick received his PhD in music from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His acoustic and electro-acoustic works have received numerous awards and have been performed and broadcast throughout the world. He has studied composition with Professors Joel Feigin, Karen Tanaka, Kurt Rohde, Samuel Adler, and electronic music with Professors Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow. Check out his bandcamp: https://abstractjak1.bandcamp.com/
Patrick Talesfore Jr.
November 10, 2020 02:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBPatrick Talesfore, Jr. is a drum set artist from Sunnyvale, CA. His playing has been described by master drummer Kenwood Dennard as '...cognizant, deliberate, musical...like facing a life or death moment. Passion personified.' Since 2011, Patrick has performed solo and with Cerce, Space Devil Rest in Peace, infant, Nishad George, Dylan Ewen, Sam Morrison, Piotr Lato, Matt Hull, David Lechuga-Espadas, Tom Weeks, gabby fluke-mogul, Eliot Burk, Zac Suskevich, Zach Weeks, Becca Cadalzo, Tim Alti...