Music is Music Podcast
1) Season 2, Ep. 6: Who is Emily Howell?
You can find Emily Howell's music all over the internet, but a search for the person comes up empty. She plays no concerts, attends no events, has no email address, and not a single photo comes up und...Show More
2) Season 2, Ep. 5: Listening to Everything
Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano--the composers who wrote the music for the videogame, Everything--join host Ria Misra for a conversation about games, music, and how to build a musical world for a...Show More
3) Season 2, Ep. 4: The Hang Drum
At times, listening to Manu Delago play music, you might think you hear him play a steel drum, a harp, or a tabla--and yet all of those sounds are actually coming from one instrument: the hang drum. D...Show More
4) Season 2, Ep. 3: Vijay Iyer
Music is Music host Ria Misra visits composer and pianist Vijay Iyer at his home in Harlem to talk about the secret lives of instruments, the everyday art of improvisation, and also just to hear some ...Show More
5) Season 2, Ep. 2: Music in Space, Pt II
International Space Orchestra founder Nelly Ben Hayoun and NASA Ames Flight Director (and saxophonist) Rusty Hunt are here for part 2 of our music in space series. Join us as we meet a band where you ...Show More
6) Season 2, Ep. 1: Music in Space, Pt. I
Composer Arthur Jeffes joins us to tell us about working with space scientists to transform black holes and exoplanets into music.
7) Music is Music: Christopher Tignor
Christopher Tignor is a composer, violinist, and software engineer. His emotionally charged scores and unique focus on live, performance-based electro-acoustic practice has won acclaim within both the...Show More
8) Music is Music: Floating Points
From a young age, Sam Shepherd has rejected the idea of neat, tidy musical categories. He studied classical piano growing up, but felt confined by what he calls the "dots on a page." It wasn't until h...Show More
9) Music is Music: Melody Parker
Melody Parker loves to dance. When she wrote the music for her album "Archipelago," she didn't start with a catchy tune, or harmonies, or rhythm. She started with movement. On this episode of Music i...Show More
10) Music is Music: The Greatest Hoax
The path to becoming a Washington D.C. advisor on climate science and global warming is easy. First study piano and double bass. Then, get a degree in composition. Next thing you know, you're a climat...Show More