BRIDGE podcast w/ John Lamberton

Jamie and I talk about espresso, our allegiance to soy milk, veganism in LA vs London, nutritional criticisms of veganism, a future of lab grown Peter Singer burgers, geographic vs temporal considerations in expanding one's moral circle, anti-speciesism, scope neglect thought experiments, wild animal suffering and invertebrate suffering, lifestyle adjustments vs financial offsets for animal welfare, normie reception of Tomasik's video game essay, Effective Altruism, consciousness as information processing, panpsychism gone wild, and the role of artists and musicians in movements like Sentientism. For more info please check out Jamie's website and blog: sentientism.info Find Jamie on twitter: @sentientism @jamiewoodhouse

Shane and I talk about coffee, pancakes, guitar as obstacle, the guitarist/composer/improviser trifecta, an avant guitarist's day-to-day living, quick takes on some of my favorite guitarists, Marc Ribot, meditation practice, timbral epiphanies, exploring prepared guitar and arbitrary tunings on Autodidact, the magic of 20bpm, internal clocks vs quantized grids, educational playlists, Allan Holdsworth, Julian Bream, nail maintenance for steel string playing, and whether or not I'll be lame if I buy a 7-string guitar.

We discuss a wide range of topics including coffee consumption, the safety of studying the occult, tarot and other divinatory systems vs. statistical forecasting models, hermetic traditions, the open source nature of chaos magic, occult pageantry, cultivating perceptual sensitivity, techniques for lucid dreaming, remote viewing and psi in the military, the occult’s overlap with modes of personal development like NLP, use of psychedelics and neural annealing, and more.

Consider supporting Lim’s writing on Patreon and check out the Chaotic Thinking podcast.

Jonathan and I talk about his impressive home brewing set up, day to day brewing and drinking, reviving siphon brewing, creating an app to analyze particle size distribution (PSD), probability densities, his upcoming book The Physics of Filter Coffee, applying soil research to brewing dynamics, hardcore data collection, being a filter coffee expert who's pulled only two shots, Scott Rao, and also a bit on Jonathan's post doc research on brown dwarfs and exoplanets.

Charlie and I talk about coffee, ignorance and technicality in metal, medieval music, managing musical projects, Peter Sloterdijk's "vertical tension", the clout and swag of Zs, using standard musical notation, respective woodsheds of jazz and metal, Hansonian signaling, Miles vs Trane, definitions of "Sacred", esoterica, Transhumanism, and more.

Check out Charlie's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChd9uQdJAWEXQoq-jiPP__Q

Alfred and I talk coffee on the East Coast, a potential coffee origin themed album, the centrality of "wonder" in Alfred's practice, his new album "What Wands Won't Break", transient inflation, spectral music, Chicago footwork, narrative depth vs. hedonic immediacy, the degree to which traditional instruments are relevant, modular synthesis, Max/MSP, the Monome, the legacy of Ras G, Ethiopian food, 12 years of Low End Theory, and LA's management of COVID-19.

Find Alfred on Twitter:

@daedelus

Check out Alfred's newest album:

https://daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-wands-wont-break

Abelard and I get into coffee habits, cognitive enhancement over the past ten years, Abelard's nootropic formulations, balancing slow and rigorous science with fast and anecdotal bro-science, prolong states of wonderment, non-powdered nootropics, mitochondrial enhancement, takeaways from RAADfest, anti-aging strategies, and a little bit of Transhumanism to finish off.

Abelard's twitter:

@ciltep

Abelard's blog:

abelardresearch.com

In this conversation, Ben and I get into coffee habits, systematic practice, chordal permutation, "exhaustive" guitar players, the 24-hr practice gauntlet, the pandemic woodshed, Vipassana and meditation, "Windowpane", Devourment's new record, lessons from Paul Motian, and playing on David Bowie's final record.

Find Ben here:

benmonder.com

For the two pieces Ben mentions listening to at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o37J8U3ku0 + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTFNZdqwvM

Mike and I discuss his company MicroTone Guitars which is producing guitars with easily interchangeable magnetic fretboards for access to all sorts of temperaments. Along the way we also discuss coffee, the "only very new and very old" musician personality type, the fact that the guitar is a shitty instrument, French spectral music, woo-woo tuning mysticism, cultural inertia vs. utopianism, the music of Jeffrey Holmes, the legacy of Dušan Bogdanović, free will, and we explore the greater landscape of microtonal music in a series of "microtonal hot takes."

Charles is the cofounder of G&B Coffee and Go Get Em Tiger cafes in Los Angeles and the 2015 US Barista Champion. In this chat we talk about pandemic home espresso, the joys of darker roasts, reverence for the 2nd wave, data collection, automation, tofu making, reasonable consumption praxis, and more.

For more on GGET and G&B:

gget.com / @ggetla / @gandbcoffee