Cristina and I sit in her teaching studio and talk about solo piano life, her new presenting and advocacy organization, and taking a deep breath and taking a big step (her words not mine).

http://legacyartsinternational.org

www.cristinaaltamura.com

Oscar Peterson - “A Little Jazz Exercise”

Etude, Op.10 No.3 by F. Chopin

Cenk and I talk about process, failure, Metallica, and playing one chord for 38 seconds.

www.cenkergun.com, __c.e on instragram, facebook and youtube

Solare by Cenk Ergun, performed by The Jack Quartet

Proximity by Cenk Ergun, performed by So Percussion from the record Nana

Jeremy (aka, professor Purple, Chrome Sparks, Luca Otto) and I sit down and talk about analog synthesis, recording your own music, live performance, and how he sees as his role in the world as an artist.  

I sit down with two members of the Sandbox Percussion Quartet to talk about the struggles of running a percussion quartet, all over 3 fine Brooklyn beers

Goldbeaters Skin by Christopher Cerrone performed by Sandbox Percussion with mezzo-soprano, Elsbeth Davis.  you’re hearing the 6th and 7th movements, Skin: Fatal Exception and Against the Madness of the Crowds

Joan and I sit down and talk about teaching, writing music, being 80, and being one of women blazing trails in the composition world (without realizing that was what she was doing).  She’s a national treasure.

DNA for Percussion Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfR4VaRleuQ

I sit down in Cliff and Yuko's office at NIU and talk about his life around the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.

We have scones and catch up on family stuff and the life she's lived. We'll talk more. You'll love her as I do, I'm quite sure of it.

Dan is the General Manager of District Social, a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. https://districtsocialnyc.com

We talk wine, the restaurant business, we curse a little, and drink a bottle of really nice chardonnay and sip some fine whiskey. Dan has a fun job. He'll be starting a podcast soon called Fancy Drunks.

sit down with 3/4 of Overground Percussion, aka TIGUE. They are charting a course no one else quite charted and they're killing it. So proud and pumped to hear them get comfy in their own skin.

part two!

I sat down with Adam Tendler and we chatted politics, religion, music, what being 'safe' means, among many other things, all over 4 lovely Vermont Beers.

Now that I've found the missing file/avoided sabotage, you can now hear the whole picture and decide for yourself about Todd Meehan--Mixed Martial Artist from Yale, Father, Husband, Husbandrist, Author of 4 E-Books on "husbandry as a hobby" and 6 more on "method booking for dummies" and a novella titled "A man dreams of triangles--A Story of lost love and misguided youth."

I sit down in the early morn at #SoSI2010 in a dorm room to talk it out. I made as much lemonade as I could out of this one folks

I sit down with Paul and Hannah at the their home in Princeton, NJ to talk about the beginning of computer music, their work together, and how they met over Mozart, as well as his work with So Percussion (and of course, Radiohead, too)

I take a tour of Garry’s studio up at the Woodstock Chimes headquarters in upstate NY. He’s a national treasure. Congressional Record by Dean Drummond, played by Newband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-G2qdodBM

Caroline and I talk grad school insecurities, politics, Kanye, and the ethical implications of your notational style as a composer

Garry and I sit and talk about the history/origins of the percussion ensemble as well as take a tour of his amazing instrument collection in the second episode

We talk conducting, percussion studies, learning about his weaknesses in the darkness of Sweden, overcoming performance anxiety, and the history of the “Grandma” slice of pizza in Long Island.