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

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Welcome to our very unofficial season 2 opener! I'm back after a long break due to illness to talk about my insistence that creativity is a human right.

I believe that accessing our own art, creativity, and imagination is a human right as essential as food, shelter, safety, etc. I also see a world with art at its center as a sort of North on my compass of how to build a more beautiful and more free world.

I also share a little about what's going on in my own life as I return to teaching and art, and some of my goals for the podcast as it enters this second season.

We've got some amazing guests planned for season two, so please stay tuned, and don't forget to help us grow the show by following, reviewing, and sharing!

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Please welcome poet (and coach and dancer and musician!) Abbi Jinks to the pod for a wide-ranging conversation on courage, transformation, sobriety, visibility, and so much more. 

Abbi Jinks Poet speaks words that are raw and real, as well as being uplifting and inspiring.  Abbi writes about things that might change your life and have certainly changed hers. She speaks about self-love, about fear, about resistance, choice and power, along with becoming sober, motherhood and clutter!  She articulates her poems in perfect rhyme and her work will leave you feeling elevated and motivated. 

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UK - https://www.abbijinks.com/product-page/my-debut-book-on-the-write-path-poems-from-the-heart

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Please welcome the inimitable flutist-composer Leanna Keith to the pod to talk about finding one's place, defying expectations, building trust with audiences, and so much more. I hope you love listening to this inspiring conversation as much as I loved being a part of it!

A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: “I didn’t know the flute could do that!” Their works focus on spontaneous sound creation, timbre-shifting, the mixed-race experience, queer theory, and the breaking of performer/audience boundaries. She is dedicated to playing music by composers who are still living, and advocates for the usage of music as social activism. Leanna is the professor of flute at Cornish College of the Arts. Their latest project is their second album, "body of breath", which is a concept album by Leanna Keith of the bass flute as a living, breathing, organism. Backed by live and pre-recorded processed electronics, she creates shifting surrealist soundscapes, utilizing the unique timbre and extended technique possibilities of the bass flute as a solo instrument.

Leanna's website:

https://www.leannakeithflute.com/

Watch Rice, Blood, Sugar:

https://youtu.be/n3-glUFjlcY?si=qQg_RtW18iNve-pl

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https://leannakeith.bandcamp.com/

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In this episode, I share my thoughts on storytelling as the only mechanism we have as humans for transmitting ideas from one person to the next, and why I therefore believe that discerning storytelling and story-listening might be the most important skills to cultivate.

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Our first guest interview! Please welcome composer Nick Fagnilli to the pod to talk about embodiment, music education, living composers, the art of improvisation, and so much more.

Nicholas Fagnilli is a composer, teacher, and performer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Nicholas received his Composition degree from Ithaca College, and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Music Education program at Carnegie Mellon University. Nick believes that creating and improvising freely should be a normal part of anyone’s musical experience. His framework of creating and teaching is based on the natural characteristics of sound and harnessing these in one’s own unique way. His music embraces the multiplicities of life and draws from a wide variety of processes and styles. His teaching and his practice as a composer and musician have developed a symbiotic relationship, and it is through this relationship that Nick seeks to reach a new understanding of what music means and what purpose it serves in today’s ever-changing world. Through his music, he seeks to discover what new stories and feelings can be evoked by releasing our previous associations of harmony and structure. 

Fagnilliousmusic.com

Fagnillious.bandcamp.com

youtube.com/@nicksgottheaux6445

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In this special tenth episode, I answer the questions that I'll be putting to guests on future episodes of the show. I share a little bit about my background, what creative projects I'm working on these days, what worries me, and what gives me hope.

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In this episode, host Zoe Sorrell talks about the multipotentialite creative, the person who has expertise and excellence in multiple different fields or genres. Zoe considers how to navigate life as a multipotentialite in a world that often demands specialization.

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In this ~unscripted~ episode, host Zoe Sorrell talks from the heart about their contentious relationship to social media and their ongoing movement to decenter and deprioritize social media in their creative work.

This episode is for you if social media leaves you feeling icky but you're not quite ready to walk away altogether. Let's find a third way together.

If this episode means something to you, it would mean the world to us if you consider following the show and leaving a review. Thanks so much!

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In this episode, host Zoe Sorrell explores how to be a thriving artist who sells products and services while maintaining anticapitalist values.

Zoe posits that sales under capitalism are uniquely violent because they rely on endless accumulation and the promise of a New Way of Being. But by grounding in enoughness and transparency, artists can lead the way in crafting more humanized ways of buying and selling.

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