Full Cadence Podcast

How does art change our experience of life? Is protest art better than abstract art? How does art foster a shared sense of community? How can art change society? How do the great artists of the Renaissance influence and shape modern art? Join visual artist Taylor Wang for this episode of Full Cadence Podcast where we discuss these topics and more!   

You can find Taylor’s art on instagram.com/yingshiart. 

Instagram/Twitter/Artstation: @yingshiart 

Website: tayloryingshi.wixsite.com/arts  

Co-Hosts: Hyuntae Choi and Marco Jimenez 

Audio/Video edited by Marco Jimenez 

Intro Music by Marco Jimenez

Is it necessary for all to art aim to influence society? What is the role of art in combatting ignorance and pessimism? By what standards can we judge art? By what standards can we judge human behavior? Join poet, writer, and poi artist Jack Starobin for this episode of Full Cadence Podcast where we discuss these topics and more!

Follow Jack on Instagram: @jack.starobin  

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Co-Hosts: Hyuntae Choi and Marco Jimenez 

Audio/Video edited by Marco Jimenez 

Intro Music by Marco Jimenez

What are the similarities between writing and music? How do they differ? What the nature of the inner tension between the composer and performer, and how does it relate to literary analysis? How does meaning change across languages? How does singing relate to music? Should Art exist for its own sake, or to convey ideas and communicate? Join pianist and writer Jenna Cooley in this episode of Full Cadence Podcast where we talk about these topics and more.   

Follow Jenna on instagram @_jennacooley  

Audio/Video Edited by Marco Jimenez

Intro music by Marco Jimenez

How does film shape the way you see the world? How has the world changed the way you approach film? What elements of film make it a unique medium in fostering connections within a community? Join filmmaker Kofi King for this episode of Full Cadence Podcast where we discuss these topics and more!  

Follow Kofi on his Instagram: @kofdaking 

Audio/Video edited by Grey Tran

How does your experience as a writer help you in fighting for justice? What is the importance of representation in media and writing? What were the most effective ways to engage with your community to make it a more inclusive space? Join writer and activist Lum Chi on this episode of Full Cadence Podcast where we discuss these topics and more!

What does it mean for art to be beautiful? What does it mean for science to be beautiful? What makes great art great? What is beauty? Can one achieve transcendence through the arts? If so, how? What makes the arts so special? What is the role of the arts in shaping and warping the audience's perception of space and time? Join us with musician, physicist, and mathematician Jack Gallahan for a discussion of composers from J.S. Bach to Elliot Carter, writers such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust, and a conversation about the meaning of the arts in the 21st century.

Anya Singh is a freshman attending University of Michigan—Ann Arbor with an intended focus on Biology, Health, and Society and a double minor in Art and Design and in Social Class and Inequality studies. She’s been a practicing visual artist for the past 11 years, most recently under the tutelage of Kriti Taneja. Anya’s work, influenced by social, political and cultural issues, is heavily commentative and reactionary. Believing in the importance of imbuing her work with her political views and biases, her work comes together to provide insight into her perspective. As a artist concerned with social justice, Anya has delved into movements like #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUp, and more specifically has explored cultural and judicial practices across domestic borders, such as in India regarding child marriage, LGBTQIA+ rights, and female autonomy. As she creates, she seeks to understand narratives, bringing stories to life on paper, canvas, and other media. Specifically in portraiture, she focuses on creating confluences of narrative and representational reality while empowering the underrepresented. As an artist, she has been invited to prestigious programs such as the Instagram Counter-Speech Fellowship, and has been recognized by Scholastic for her work in painting, drawing, mixed media, and political cartoons. In 2019, she won the New York Times Editorial Cartoon Contest and was subsequently published.  

You can contact Anya after the show using her email [email protected], and her art instagram is @anya_singh_art  

Video/Audio edited by Hyuntae Choi 

Intro music by Marco Jimenez

Samuel “Adán” Martinez is a 20 year old local activist, strings teacher, musician, and a St. Petersburg native to the Tampa Bay area. He currently is a full-time Music Studies Major minoring in Entrepreneurship at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and he plays with the Tampa Bay Symphony. Adán began playing the viola at the age of 11 through the Fine Arts program at his middle school. He didn’t have access to weekly lessons or musical resources and had many different on-and-off lessons with various strings teachers in the area. By his junior year in high school, Adán would play his viola on the street corners in downtown St. Petersburg to earn money for his viola payments, private viola lessons, and overall living expenses. Busking every Friday and Saturday night opened up many different doors for Adán as he met retired musicians with musical connections to members of the Florida Orchestra who eventually would teach him. He went on to receive many local accolades his senior year from winning first place in the Mayor’s Youth Showcase to headling an event with John Legend. Adán believes that “Music was a great outlet for all of the negative aspects of his childhood/reality and opened his eyes as to how he could make a positive impact on other people’s lives through music.”

Adán would like to promote the organizations Gathering of Women (you can contact them at [email protected]) and The Arts Conservatory for Teens (https://www.actstpete.org/).

Audio edited by Hyuntae Choi

Full Cadence believes in the power of the Arts to sustain the human spirit. Through sharing stories of young artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts who are making a difference in their communities, we hope to inspire our listeners to examine how they can use their own talents and unique skill sets to do good. We also aim to forge a network of artists dedicated to their craft and to advancing issues of social justice. Coupled with special episodes exploring the vast world of classical music, Full Cadence ultimately seeks to excite hope and joy in our audience.

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