Topics: Max Fleischer + Raymond Scott

Guest: Faustina

yeerk is joined by dear friend Faustina to discuss two titans of American technological vision, Max Fleischer and Raymond Scott.

The conversation ranges from the origins of Betty Boop, the hidden links between ANimation and ANimism, Fleischer's Superman as the spirit of American invention, jazz as a form of industrial music, and Raymond Scott's status as the prophet of MIDI.

A bustling Art Deco Metropolis of the Imagination arises around them, while in the infernal subterranean caverns beneath, demons of dice and liquor prowl on ribbon-like legs and grin.

"It was, and still is, my opinion that a cartoon should represent, in simple form, the cartoonist's mental expression"

"Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music"

Faustina's substack

Intro theme by Laz Harding (The Upest Fukist)