PODCAST · arts
Concert Honesty
by Josh Quillen
thoughts and chats with friends
Episodes
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#265--Michael Kent
A fun chat w/ my buddy Michael Kent talking about his podcast “The Internet Says It’s True” and our time together in the Ohio State University Marching Band.
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#264--Jad Abumrad
A lovely chat with Jad Abumrad.
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#263--Rusty Burge
a lovely chat with Rusty Burge.
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#262--Allen Otte
A lovely chat with Allen Otte, percussionist, educator, and founder of Blackearth Percussion Group and Percussion Group Cincinnati
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#261--Sarah Goldfeather (Exceptet)/Brendon Randall-Myers
A lovely chat with Sarah and Brendon about Exceptet’s new album called “Episodic Memory”
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#260--David Lang
A lovely chat w/ composer and founder of Bang on a Can, David Lang.
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#259--Adam Groh
A lovely chat w/ Adam Groh about his new album Hawthorne
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#258--Brad Williams
A lovely conversation w/ Brad Williams, host of the podcast The Bandwhich Tapes
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#257--Steve Mackey
A lovely conversation w/ composer Steve Mackey
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#256--Steve Schick
A lovely conversation w/ percussionist Steve Schick.
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#255--Joan Tower
A lovely chat on Independence Day w/ composer and educator Joan Tower
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#254--Bobby Previte
A lovely chat with drummer, improviser, composer, and educator, Bobby Previte.
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#253--Bill Cahn
A lovely chat with one of the founding members of Nexus, Bill Cahn
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#252--Russell Hartenberger
A lovely chat with Russell Hartenberger of Nexus and Steve Reich and Musicians.
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#251--Ben Jackson
Ben is a driller and performer from Trinidad and Tobago. He has drilled many large steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago and has worked with many of the luminaries in the pan world including Dr. Pat Bishop and Dr. Len Boogsie Sharpe
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#250--Akinola Sennon
Akinola runs the Siparia Deltones youth program, and is an arranger, performer, and composer of steel drum music from Trinidad and Tobago. It was a joy to talk with Akinola about his mission in education.
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#249--Mike Kent
Mike is a magician living in Columbus, OH. Always great to catch up w/ Mike and talk about the issues of the day.
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#248--Michael Bump
Dr. Michael Bump is my first college teacher at Ohio State. He now teaches at Truman St. University and is one of my favorite people on the planet.
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#247--James Romig/Mike Scheidt
Mike is the leader of a doom metal group called YOB. James wrote him a contemporary guitar solo. Worlds collided and amazing stuff came from it. I learned a ton from talking to them both about the diversity and acceptance in the metal world of other genres. Hope you enjoy this chat.
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#246--David Curtis
David and I chat about the recent Roe v. Wade decision as it pertains to his religious belief as a reformed Calvinist. I have lived in or beside Lutheran Churches for the last 15 years, so this chat was interesting for me. David is a good soul and we (as thoughtfully as we could) worked through…
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#245--Adair Amodio
Adair is a former HS classmate of mine and she currently helps folks re-sell their vintage goods and find them a good home. She’s a national treasure and I really enjoyed this chat.
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#244--Eleanor Manes
Eleanor is a graduate of the University of Akron. We talk about the issues around coming out as non-binary and trans in the current climate in the US. I always have been grateful for Eleanor’s friendship. I hope you enjoy this candid conversation.
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#243--Sheldon Hoyte
Sheldon is a registered nurse in a dialysis clinic in Texas. We discuss the current issues around gun ownership in the US. I always enjoy talking with Sheldon.
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#242--James Romig
James is a percussionist, musician and composer who has a new piece out for solo guitar for the lead guitarist for the doom metal band, YOB. It was a great time chatting about compositional process with James as well as learning a bit more about doom metal.
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#241--Neal Beck
Neal is a professor of political science at NYU and a supporter of So Percussion. We talk about his early experiences in modern music as well as causality in the social sciences. This was a fun one!
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#240--Brian Graiser
Brian and I dig into the history of the vibraphone since pre-WW2 as well as his personal growth as a musician. Brian is a fascinating guy and I think you’ll enjoy this chat.
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#239--Anja Schutz
Anja’s is a visual artist and photographer. Her mom passed away of ALS in 2020 and we talk about her background a bit and what it was like to see a loved one pass of Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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#238--Blake Fusilier
Blake is a musician from Atlanta who goes by Fusilier. We talked about the crossover of southern hip-hop and Nine Inch Nails. I learned a ton from this chat, and I hope you do as well!
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#237--Aron Sanchez
Aron and I talk about Buke and Gase’s collaboration w/ Rahrah Gabor and his new solo project DNRez.
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#236—Anna Pidgorna
Anna and I talk about the current situation in Ukraine and some of the historical context of what’s going on over there. She also talks personally about what her family is going through. It’s very much worth a listen if you are at all a citizen of the world.
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#235--Tom Daniels
Tom is a retired English teacher and ran the drama department at Dover High School in Dover, OH. He’s a singer and guitar player, who had a larger impact in my day to day teaching than I realized. Hope you enjoy this chat.
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#234—Alec Bemis
Alec and I talk about his time in the record label industry as well as the current issues (both good and bad) w/ the current Spotify model. We touch on the issues around Joe Rogan and Neil Young, and the ethics around all of it. Alec is a really thoughtful friend and colleague and I really…
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#233--Arone Dyer, Rahrah Gabor
Arone and Lala (aka. Rahrah Gabor) sit down and talk about their new collaboration album and the influences behind it.
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#232--Korean Songs for Marimba
Ji Hye Jung, Eric Cha-Beach, and Todd Meehan talk about the new book called Korean Songs for Marimba.
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#231—Olatunji Yearwood
Olatunji is a calypsonian from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. We had a wonderful time chatting about the history of calypso music as well as how to preserve it and advocate for it moving forward.
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#230—Andrew Noseworthy
Andrew is a guitarist and composer who hails from Labrador in Canada. We had a great time chatting about his current work as well as the current state of affairs in online culture.
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#229--Sarah Thomas
Sarah is a member of the Bergamot String Quartet. We chat about life in a string quartet as well as navigating the new music world.
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#228—Mike Schwebke
Mike is a percussionist who studied at Northern Illinois University. We do a short podcast and chat a bit about our time with Cliff Alexis.
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#227--Evan Miller
Evan is a former SoSI student/intern who is now a radio host near Cincinnati. It was great to catch up with Evan and chat about his experiences as a student and hear about his life in the world now. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did!
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#226--Ben Wahlund #2
Ben and I pick up where we left off from our last chat. We talk about aspects of privilege when talking about issues of race and class as well as dive into the ethics of teaching and what works and what doesn’t. I’ve really enjoyed chatting with Ben. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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#225--Brianna Matzke
Brianna is a pianist and teacher living in Cincinnati, OH. We talked about her background in music and growing up with a farmer as a father. We also touched on issues of class and race in the new music community and how, in general, to try and make things better. Brianna was the first in person...
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#224--Kadeem Alleyne
Kadeem is a musician living in Brooklyn, NY and of Trinidadian descent. He’s a big advocate for the steel pan culture in NYC and Trinidad. We talked about pan culture as well as some of the issues around vaccine hesitancy. I truly am grateful to have had this conversation with Kadeem. I hope you...
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#223--Ben Wahlund
Ben is a percussionist, educator, arranger, and composer who teaches at NIU. Ben and I have a great chat about his time at NIU and his work with Cliff and Liam, as well as how to embrace cultures not familiar to you. I really enjoyed the chat with Ben and I hope to do more!
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#222—Duvone Stewart
Duvone is the arranger and music director of Renegades Steel Orchestra in Trinidad and Tobago. It was a pleasure to talk with him about his background and get into some discussions about the steel band culture and history and issues of respect of the culture in the steelband community. I hope you...
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#221--Pathos Trio
Felix Reyes, Marcelina Suchocka, and Alan Hankers make up a trio of two percussionists and 1 pianist focusing on new commissions for the line-up. They all have a background of heavy metal influence and it was a treat to talk with them about their groups goals and future.
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#220--Kim Johnson
Kim is a Trinidadian historian focusing on the roots of the steelband movement in Trinidad and Tobago. His book “From Tinpan to TASPO” changed my life. We talk about the history of the steel pan and his approach to collecting all of that crucial information from figures who are alive today.
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#219--Dominic Shodekeh Talifero
Shodekeh is a vocal breath artist, currently in residence at Towson University. We had a great chat about the innovating beat boxer, Biz Markie, among many other artists. We also talk a bit about his personal battle with suicide and how Buckminster Fuller’s ideation approach changed his life....
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#218—Aaron Butler
Aaron is a SoSI alum and percussionist living in Seattle. We talk about ways to use funding to support local artists and ethics around all of that. I really enjoyed catching up with Aaron.
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#217—Andrea Tafelski
Andrea is a SoSI alum and percussionist/performer living in Florida. Her online persona is Andē. It was amazing to catch up with her and hear what she’s up to. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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#216—Kunal Gupta
I met Kunal at Silent Barn, a punk house music space he ran with his friend Joe Ahearn and many others. It was a pleasure to catch up with him and hear about his life in coding. I really enjoyed this chat especially the discussion around ethics in technology.
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