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Ep. 16: Healing through multimedia art - with Dr. Jessica Pollack
Dr. Jessica Pollack joins the pod for a wide-ranging conversation following the release of Part of Me is Water, an album of contemporary works for clarinet with a companion book of original poetry. The project explores pain, resilience, trauma, contradiction, storms, and self-compassion. Jessica speaks to Zoe about her process in creating this project, the many themes it weaves together, and why it sometimes takes multiple art forms to get inside topics such as these.
You can purchase Part of Me is Water here.
And find the album wherever music is streamed:
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YouTube
Amazon Music
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Jessica's Bio: Jessica Pollack is a clarinetist interested in collaboration across all arts. She has worked with actors, singers, dancers, puppeteers, visual artists, and anyone who has a meaningful story to tell. She founded the non-profit, Chamber Music with Friends, Inc., in her hometown, fostering collaboration between artists of all backgrounds for fun, welcoming, and unique shows in which audience members feel they are among friends. Other collaborations have included Banff Centre’s production of Kopernikus, in which Jessica and the whole musician cast performed the opera on stage, memorized, with costume and blocking. She worked with composer Chelsea Komschlies to adapt her folk-inspired violin solo, Fear A Bhata, for clarinet. Jessica then teamed with ME Theater to present Fear A Bhata for dancer and dancing clarinet. Her cross-disciplinary interests also extend to psychology. She graduated Northwestern University cum laude in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance and Bachelor of Arts in psychology. In her doctorate work at Florida State University College of Music, she works to bring tested performance and learning psychology principles to musicians. Jessica is an alumna of Aspen Music Festival, fresh inc., Brevard Music Center, Eastern Music Festival, Musicalta, and Interlochen music festivals, studied chamber music at IES Vienna, and completed her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University. She loves vegan cookies and her cat, Aly Raisman.
www.jessicapollackclarinet.com
Follow Jessica on Facebook and Instagram.
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Dr. Jessica Pollack joins the pod for a wide-ranging conversation following the release of Part of Me is Water, an album of contemporary works for clarinet with a companion book of original poetry. The project explores pain, resilience, trauma, contradiction, storms, and self-compassion. Jessica speaks to Zoe about her process in creating this project, the many themes it weaves together, and why it sometimes takes multiple art forms to get inside topics such as these.
You can purchase Part of Me is Water here.
And find the album wherever music is streamed:
Spotify
YouTube
Amazon Music
Pandora
Jessica's Bio: Jessica Pollack is a clarinetist interested in collaboration across all arts. She has worked with actors, singers, dancers, puppeteers, visual artists, and anyone who has a meaningful story to tell. She founded the non-profit, Chamber Music with Friends, Inc., in her hometown, fostering collaboration between artists of all backgrounds for fun, welcoming, and unique shows in which audience members feel they are among friends. Other collaborations have included Banff Centre’s production of Kopernikus, in which Jessica and the whole musician cast performed the opera on stage, memorized, with costume and blocking. She worked with composer Chelsea Komschlies to adapt her folk-inspired violin solo, Fear A Bhata, for clarinet. Jessica then teamed with ME Theater to present Fear A Bhata for dancer and dancing clarinet. Her cross-disciplinary interests also extend to psychology. She graduated Northwestern University cum laude in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance and Bachelor of Arts in psychology. In her doctorate work at Florida State University College of Music, she works to bring tested performance and learning psychology principles to musicians. Jessica is an alumna of Aspen Music Festival, fresh inc., Brevard Music Center, Eastern Music Festival, Musicalta, and Interlochen music festivals, studied chamber music at IES Vienna, and completed her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University. She loves vegan cookies and her cat, Aly Raisman.
www.jessicapollackclarinet.com
Follow Jessica on Facebook and Instagram.
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Follow along with the pod on Instagram:
https://instagram.com/oncominghomepod
On Threads:
https://threads.net/@oncominghomepod
Support the Patreon:
http://www.patreon.com/zoesorrell