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Episode 25: Jim Ragen

For over forty years, with career, family and various natural disasters intervening, Jim Ragen has been at work on a five-volume novel spanning generations of life in the Dakotas. He turned down an offer to publish his writing in his mid-twenties because he knew he needed a lifetime of experience to best tell his story, which centers around the devastating 1972 flood in Rapid City, South Dakota that changed his life.

Direct download: Episode202520Jim20Ragen.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 24: Artist Roundtable

Host Scott Pinkmountain facilitates a conversation between four artists—Fiona Connor; her brother, Jamie Connor, a web developer; artist and writer Brigitte Nicole Grice; and artist Catherine Davis, who works as the manager at the Eames House in the Pacific Palisades. Their conversation veers from Marx and labor power to the difference between honesty and truth in art, to public vs. private practices, to Scott's ignorance about New Zealand, as well as Moondog and a whole passel of other stuff.

Direct download: Episode202420Artist20Roundtable.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 23: Katherine Ball

Katherine Ball’s work happens at the intersection of anti-capitalism, environmental issues, and social justice issues. For Ball, this has translated to a broad spectrum of projects ranging from making inflatable barricades for climate change demonstrations to helping turn a squatted Greek military base into a sustainable farm.

Direct download: Episode202320Katherine20Ball.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 22: Mick

Guitarist and songwriter Mick (who has requested anonymity due to the nature of the discussion) speaks frankly about his childhood abuse and drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.    

Direct download: Episode202220Mick20Darling20Freakhead.mp3
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Episode 21: Mona Tian

Mona Tian grew up in Shanghai and started playing violin at age 3. She made her major solo debut at age 8, then moved to the US to further her studies when she was 12. She speaks with Scott Pinkmountain about her lost childhood, the pressure she felt as her parents invested everything into her musical education, and how she eventually had to discover her own reasons and motivations to continue playing music as an adult.

Direct download: Episode202120Mona20Tian.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 19: Angela C. Villa and Thollem McDonas

Documentarian Angela C. Villa and musician Thollem McDonas have been living on the road on perpetual tour for the past eight years. Villa has captured Thollem in improvised performance with the likes of Nels Cline, Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pauline Oliveros, and countless others.

Direct download: Episode201920Thollem20Macdonas202620Angela20Villa2028129.mp3
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Episode 18: Lisa Ward

An artist and architect, Lisa Ward also has an extensive background in theater, and speaks about her work with the Brooklyn Pageant Project bringing performances to the streets of New York on a wagon that folded out into a theater. More recently, she's focused on visual work—sculpture that blends her interest in architecture and the American West, and in her own words, "exploring symbols of human habitation and infrastructure and their relationship to the surrounding landscape."

Direct download: Episode201820Lisa20Ward.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 17: Brett Fletcher Lauer

Brett Fletcher Lauer is mainly known for his work as a poet. His debut book, A Hotel in Belgium,  has recently been published by Four Way Books, and his work has also been published in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Fence, Harper's, and Tin House. He is the deputy director at the Poetry Society of America.

Direct download: Episode201720Brett20Fletcher20Lauer.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 16: Cheryl Leonard

Composer, performer, and instrument builder Cheryl E. Leonard is known for creating compositions using materials she finds in the natural world—things like stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells and feathers. She’s travelled as far as the Arctic and Antarctica in search of new sounds like calving glaciers and her set of penguin bone instruments.

Leonard talks about some of the challenges of making her microscopically quiet music while living in a city, like having to wake at 3 a.m. and climb into her closet to record. She also discusses the benefits she gets from her other two serious passions, Aikido and mountaineering, and how making art doesn’t necessarily trump those things.

Direct download: Episode201620Cheryl20Leonard.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT

Episode 15: Nate Wooley

Trumpet player/composer Nate Wooley’s playing has been widely praised by everyone from the New York Times and DownBeat to trumpet icon Dave Douglass who called him “one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today.” He’s constantly performing and recording internationally with such folks as John Zorn, Thurston Moore, and pretty much every one playing contemporary free jazz and improvised music. For his day job, Wooley is the curator of the Database of Recorded American Music and the editor-in-chief of their online quarterly journal, Sound American.

 

Direct download: Episode201520Nate20Wooley.mp3
Category:Make/Work -- posted at: 9:00pm PDT