Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton:

 “I was first introduced to Jaimee Wriston Colbert by her daughter Mailie Colbert, who told me I should read her mother's books. I read Climbing The God Tree, and later Shark Girls, and more recently, Vanishing Acts with the greatest pleasure. Colbert's work is exciting in its formal inventiveness: it blurs the line between short stories and the novel for one, magical thing, moreover it is fiction rooted in the real lives of ordinary humanity, sometimes, and in some instances people who are unfortunately forgotten or overlooked in a lot of books and stories. The characters in Colbert's fiction really are like the people you could know in life except that she gives you more than a glimpse into their inner lives such that would be ordinarily unavailable to you in life. The people in Colbert's fiction have extraordinary dignity and integrity, even in some of the hardest social situations, and the struggles of the characters come alive in ways that make you look at human social life in a thoroughly novel way. In the proverbial phrase, you grow to care about them as you read. In having Colbert on the show, the artistic medium being celebrated is what used to be called the art of prose, and it is a medium in which she undoubtedly excels.”

Jaimee’s Biography: Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of six books of fiction: Vanishing Acts, winner of a 2018 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, and finalist for the 2018 American Fiction Prize, 2018 Foreword Indies Book of the Year, the National Indie Excellence Award in Literary Fiction, and the 2019 International Book Award in Literary Fiction; Wild Things, winner of the CNY 2017 Book Award in Fiction and the 2018 International Book Award in Fiction-Short Stories; Shark Girls, finalist for the USA Book News Best Books of 2010 and ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year; Dream Lives of Butterflies, winner of the IPPY Gold Medal/First Place Award for story collections; Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Tampa Review, and Prairie Schooner, and broadcast on “Selected Shorts.” She was awarded the 2012 Ian MacMillan Fiction Prize for “Things Blow Up,” a story in Wild Things. Other stories won the Jane’s Stories Award and the Isotope Editor’s Fiction Prize. She was recently awarded the 2018-2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Originally from Hawai’i, she is Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY, Binghamton University. 

Links to Jaimee’s Works: https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/jaimeewristoncolbert http://www.fomitepress.com/Vanishing_Acts html http://www.newletters.org/bkmk-books/wild-things https://livingstonpress.uwa.edu/htm%20(web%20pages)/shark_girls.htm https://www.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=jcolbert https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeewristoncolbert/ https://www.facebook.com/jaimee.wriston.colbert: 

Artist's Referenced: Tillie Olson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_Olsen Jack Driscoll: https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/tell-me-the-landscape-in-which-you-live-an-interview-with-jack-driscoll/ 

*Please note a correction in the episode,  artists mentioned in the episode : I mention an important novella by Tillie Olsen called Tell Me A Riddle. I say that the filmed version was directed by John Sayles. John Sayles was not the director. Lee Grant was!

The Art of Sound and Image: a conversation with Maile Costa Colbert

Inside the episode with Mitch Hampton:

I have known Maile Colbert personally for more than a decade, originally going back to the days when I frequented Mass Art Film Society where she presented some of her very first work, including a film about artist Sophie Calle, and my interest in some of the faculty at CalArts with whom she studied, including James Benning. Maile Colbert, like so many of the guests at Journey Of An Aesthete, is an artist whose work involves the aesthetic itself, but for what it reveals about us.

She is unique in that her art focuses on what I would call the textures of sensory life. She works in what is sometimes called experimental sound and does sound design for her own projects as well as those of others. She also makes film and video and has created an opera, Come Kingdom Come. She is interested in what the world sounds and looks like and what, as elements of "found" nature and created culture, the experience of our senses tells us about what it is to be human at this point in our collective history. Equally serious about and sensitive to the visuals and sounds of life, her work defies all traditional categories or genres and urges us to pay greater attention to the environment around us.

Maile’s Bio:

Maile Costa Colbert  is  an  intermedia  artist, researcher, and educator with a focus on audio-visual time-based media. She is currently a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on sound studies, cinematic sound design, and its relationship with soundscape ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and a visiting lecturer at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place (http://www.mailecolbert.com/proj-wayback.html), and asks what we might gather from listening to and sounding a past. She is a collaborator with the Portuguese art and culture organization Binaural (www.binauralmedia.org), a member of CineLab, IFILNOVA's research lab for cinema and philosophy (www.fcsh.unl.pt), and is an editor and author at Sonic Field - sonic arts, sound studies, and listening culture (http://sonicfield.org/author/mailecolbert/). She has exhibited, screened, and performed globally.

For an extended look at this episode, links to artists mentioned, more about Maile, visit our show Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast/

You can view, read, and listen to more of her work here:  www.mailecolbert.com 

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Since the publication of his Care of The Soul in 1992, Thomas Moore has been a bestselling author on all matters important to the human being. He has a background as monk, musician, psychologist and practicing psychotherapist with deep connections to Carl Jung, and is very erudite on all of the humanities, making him an ideal guest for Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast. 

 Moore holds Ficino, Erasmus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and J S Bach as special influences and attempts to bring their insights into the contemporary period. 

He is as widely versed in spiritual traditions as he is in the secular liberal arts and in books like Soulmates, The Soul Of Sex, The Re-enchantment Of The World and, currently, Ageless Soul., renders his philosophical commitments in the most beautiful prose.

One of his central insights is that what he calls "literalism" is the biggest problem for our world today; consequently, he attempts to heal the effects of this literalism through a more poetic consciousness about all aspects of life. 

It was certainly an honor to have him as guest on the show.

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About this episode:

Smriti Shankar is a woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. Lots of people often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India.  Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined.

Check back with us for live updates with Smriti on the road about her travels in some live episodes soon!

Links to Smriti's project :

https://www.instagram.com/travellingboots/

http://travellingboots.in/media-kit/

https://www.facebook.com/TravellingBoots/

A deeper look : Inside the Episode with Mitch:

Back when I was living in Boston, which proved to be my home for most of my adult life since it was close to thirty years, I enjoyed the daily ritual of the Peets Coffee in Harvard Square. A lot of international travelers would came through that particular coffeehouse, if not actual students at Tufts, Harvard or MTI and so on, then visiting professors, families, and random business and leisure travelers. A serendipitous meeting with Smriti Shankar proved to be most illuminating since I became aware of her extraordinary Traveling Boots project. Smriti is a married woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. People often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India, the updates of which can be linked to here.  Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, to put it simply, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined. Her project is very much in keeping with the theme and spirit of Journey OF an Aesthete, perhaps even in the most literal sense of those words.  Welcome to Journey Of an Aesthete, Smriti Shankar.

" Mr. Sanifu Al Hall Jr. :  The Consummate Musician "

AL Hall Jr. is that uncommon individual: the consummate musician or musician's musician. He has literally done it all. From session work on the trombone to touring and recording with some of the best musicians of the previous century - Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Freddie Hubbard, Sammy Davis Jr. for starters, Hall has also played a critical role in recording and producing musical projects as much as composing, arranging and performing. Accordingly, Journey Of An Aesthete is happy to talk with him.

Extended Look Inside the Episode with Mitch:

In a very real sense having Sanifu Al Hall Jr. on my show at this early date is perfection in scheduling because as a man, musician and artist he exemplifies everything this podcast is about.

He is consummate musician who has mastered and played in every musical style. He has played trombone with some of the most important artists of the 20th century. Indeed he was in the Ray Charles Orchestra in the years of the early 1970s which was one of the great big bands of that era. He has toured with the great Marvin Gaye in the late 70s and was part of Stevie Wonder's Secret life Of Plants Tour. And that is just for starters. He is a composer and producer, a key member of the Black Jazz label (Gene Russell's label), one of the important jazz labels of the 1970s, contributing arrangements and compositions as much as his own trombone mastery on recording sessions.

He is also a true audiophile and was and is an innovator in recording technology and the arts of studio recording more generally. A musician's musician, he is is also one of the few musicians I know of to work in both straight ahead jazz contexts as well as RnB and dance music with equal facility as well as wind ensemble and classical.

He has done it all.

He also happened to write music for and produce for one of my favorite brass (trumpet and flugelhorn) players Freddie Hubbard. We will talk about his defiance about musical boxes and categories and much more. Moat recently we are lucky to have released some older sessions he conducted of some of his soul infused compositions, in  an ensemble called the Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra  I believe in a couple of cases this is the first time the tracks have been released.

We are happy to welcome... Sanifu Al Hall Jr.

Links to Al's Blogs:

https://alhalljr.wordpress.com/author/sanifualhalljr/

https://sanifu.blogspot.com/

Links to Al's works:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/480312-Al-Hall-2?page=1

https://www.discogs.com/artist/7222344-Sanifu-Al-Hall-Jr https://www.jamendo.com/artist/360061/sanifu https://cosmosdwellerzarkestra.bandcamp.com/ https://www.reverbnation.com/aljonimusic

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For his second episode of  Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast , your host, Mitch Hampton, records live at his Steinway piano, and does more playing than talking this time. 

An Alumni of New England Conservatory of Music , Mitch discusses his process of creating original music. Mitch is a world renown musician and composer who has scored for many major films, toured the world playing piano , and has produced many albums.

Using as a starting point his selection, Townsend Detective Agency , from his album Hard Listening vol 2 , Mitch shares his love for older musical styles and languages, (roughly those from, say, the forties through the 60s and 70s)  ideas about shifting from one section to another in a piece of music, the uses of restrictions as a boost to improvisation and much more.

For more information about Mitch's body of work, his musical mentor John Heiss ( mentioned in the episode) , links to albums, click here and enjoy!s,. across all mediums and art forms, Mitch himself first takes on an internal musical journey of composing live, before interviewing his special upcoming guests about their creative processes.

For more information about Mitch's body of work, his musical mentor John Heiss ( mentioned in the episode) , links to Mitch's albums, click here and enjoy!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mitch-hampton/434517595

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...in which our host, Mitch Hampton, introduces himself and his passions. Through the vantage point of the late, great Isaiah Berlin's ideas about pluralism, he reflects on what art is, has been and can be, the reality of stylistic diversity, with some personal reflections from the host's early life, movies, musical training and much more.

More aout Isaiah Berlin here : http://www.isaiahberlin.org/en

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