Bit Depth

Grant Wood and I discuss love, politics, privilege, religion, and sanctity. Hopefully we didn't dig ourselves into any holes, but if we did, let us know, and we can talk about it!

You can find Grant on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/_grantypanties/

Grant Wood is a guitarist studying at ACM@UCO. We talked about music, religion, politics, and morality. You can find Grant on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/_grantypanties/

Dr. Scott McAllister is a composer, professor, husband and father. He has composed for Wind Symphony (“Zing!”, “Popcopy”), Clarinet (“Black Dog”, “X Concerto”), and other instruments. He is the Director of the Composition department at the Baylor School of Music in Waco, Texas, and he also teaches composition. He was in Oklahoma for the premiere of “Flight of the Elephant”, a collaboration between the School of Music and the Department of Design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Due to time constraints, this is a shorter form of the podcast, but the big questions were there, nonetheless. You can find Scott’s music on his website: http://www.lydmusic.com/

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Dakota and I started with discussing Star Wars, which has some rich lore. But then we get to what we really wanted to talk about, which was politics. Obviously, we don’t agree on everything, but it’s amazing what you can find that you agree on with someone when you get to sit down and talk like real human beings. I was glad to have the conversation. You can find Dakota’s bands on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/katlock7/https://www.instagram.com/thesweettalkersmusic/https://www.instagram.com/plutoripband/

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Dakota Green is the drummer for Kat Lock, The Sweet Talkers, and Pluto Rest in Peace. Normally, I get people on the podcast that I’m usually pretty friendly with and we end up becoming more friendly. However, Dakota and I have argued every once in a while on Facebook, and I didn’t like that. So, instead of sitting back and getting bitter about our differences, I decided that I wanted to get him on the podcast so that we could better understand our differences and get past them. I’m glad I did, because that’s what happens when you sit down and have a civilized conversation with the people you disagree with. So, get to know Dakota!

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Breck and I discuss music, history, human senses, communication, and more music. Power Cycle (Jonathan Edwards, Breck McGough, and Santiago Ramones) has a concert on October 8th and it's a Halloween show, so bring your costumes that you've been wanting to wear all year! It's at the UCO Jazz Lab and it starts at 7:30pm. FREE PIZZA. FREE MUSIC. What more could you want?

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Hello, and again, welcome to Bit Depth. I’m Santiago Ramones.I had recorded a podcast for this week, but I was unable to use it due to my own recording mistake. Instead, here’s a repost of a podcast with an old friend. He passed away earlier this year and I miss him dearly.The text from the original posting:“After the first conversation with Caleb, he and I spent a long time talking about stuff and wanted to keep that conversation going, since we didn't get it on record. We discuss stuff like the collective vs. the individual, ideal societies, technology, and economics. While it may seem that we get a bit against each other, rest assured that we're totally civil and have absolutely no hard feelings. Such is the nature of ideological conflict. Caleb is a great friend and I look forward to having him on the podcast with other people, too.”

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Breck McGough is a composer and singer that I know through UCO. We’re in a trio of electronic music called Power Cycle, which includes Jonathan Edwards (Bit Depth 126). Breck and I talked about music and spirituality. You can find some of his music on his SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/breck-mcgough

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

I didn't have time to record a podcast this week, so here's a rebroadcast of the bonus episode on a while back with guests Grayson Hamm and Walt Blythe of Space4Lease:Space4Lease is a psychedelic rock band from Oklahoma City, and this podcast features Grayson Hamm and Walt Blythe (and Caleb Gray in the background). Stick around till the end of the podcast and get to hear an EXCLUSIVE acoustic song from them. You can find them on Facebook and Instagram, or more easily on their website: www.space4leasemusic.com

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

BJ Mendelson and I discuss privacy, social media, the Internet, artificial intelligence, politics, history, the future, and so on. This was an incredibly informative and fun conversation and I'm super happy to have had BJ on. You can find all of his things on his website, bjmendelson.com

Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.