Soundwalker Podcast
1) Joe Boyd: A Lifetime Seeking Unexpected Music
Seems like whenever musical history was made over the last sixty years, Joe Boyd was there. He produced Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, and ...Show More
2) Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment
An hour and a half with the great improvising pianist Marilyn Crispell, winner of the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters Award. We learn how and when she began improvising, and how she has learned to combine energ...Show More
3) W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?
A conversation with 86-year old musical master Allaudin Mathieu, who started out arranging for Duke Ellington and went on to become a great mentor and spiritual force, today making some of the best wo...Show More
4) What Club Will Have Me? David Rothenberg Interviewed by Victoria Vesna
Finally I dare to make myself the subject of an interview in my own podcast. The art/science pioneer Victoria Vesna grilled me on how I got where I am today: What I learned from John Cage, R. Murray S...Show More
5) David James Duncan: The East in the West, the West in the East
David James Duncan worked on his masterwork novel SUN HOUSE for nearly two decades, and it has now arrived. I met him last in the early days of the project, and now sixteen years later we sit down to ...Show More
6) Sun Chung: Sonic Mystery
Sun Chung founded Red Hook Records after working for more than a decade at ECM Records in Munich. It's rapidly becoming a beacon for what a creative music label can be in our tumultuous times. In...Show More
7) Glen Moore's Bass: The Sound of Desire
A far-reaching conversation with one of the finest bass players of our time, Glen Moore, known for his work with the Paul Winter Consort and Oregon, he also recorded many albums on ECM and Intuition w...Show More
8) Lisa Wells: It's a Beautiful F*cking World
Today I speak with the poet, activist, and environmental writer Lisa Wells, author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. We talk about the anger of youth, the fallibility of heroes, and...Show More
9) Ben Neill: Mutation and the Groove
Composer-performer Ben Neill reveals the history of his invention the Mutantrumpet, and his work over the years with Jon Hassell, John Cage, and La Monte Young, along with new ideas on where music wil...Show More
10) Matthew Aidekman: The Black Box of Cool
Today I speak with musician, software developer, sound experimenter Matthew Aidekman on what computers can and can't do for us in the world of audio, and why the search for surprising ways to tra...Show More