Outside Music Inside the Golden State

By Eliot Burk

What's Outside Music Inside the Golden State about?

Interviews with creators of experimental, contemporary classical, noise, freely improvised, or otherwise outsider music in California. A podcast by Eliot Burk. Artwork by Z.A. Stenger.

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Outside Music Inside the Golden State episodes:

01.06.2023
Jeremy Haladyna
Interview originally recorded March, 2021. Eleven trips to the Mayan region and an investigation of some 35 years into Precolumbian thought have indelibly marked and changed the work of this U.S.-born composer. Haladyna’s Mayan Cycle now stretches to thirty-five highly...
12.26.2022
Joel Feigin
Interview originally aired July 5, 2021. Joel Feigin is an internationally performed composer, whose operas, chamber, orchestra, and piano works have been widely praised for their “very strong impact, as logical in musical design as they are charged with emotion...
05.07.2022
Anaís Azul
Peruvian immigrant Anaís Azul (they/them) is a California based singer-songwriter, composer, and teaching artist. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” their artistry engages with music as a tool for community building, cross-genre collaboration, and collective healing.Azul writes music that is...
01.13.2022
Dylan Marx
Moths, Clownfisher, Dylan Marx, The Sandman, Oracle of Light, Purveyor of Goods, Great Overtaker, Stopping by for Soup, Standing on the Corner with a Glass of Water, Dumping it out on the Sidewalk, missed the plants, missed the plant, went...
09.13.2021
Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble
The Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble (LAEE) was founded in 2018 by its core members Zaq Kenefick, Christina Lord, Marcus Carline, and Glen Grey. In this episode, the group discusses how they first came together, their aesthetic goals for the ensemble,...
07.16.2021
Daniel Newman-Lessler
Daniel Newman-Lessler is a composer, conductor, pianist, singer, educator, and dabbler in watercolor and pastels. His compositions have been performed by players and ensembles across the country, and impressively he has also found repeated success as a conductor and...
06.30.2021
Andrew Kaluzynski
Andrew Kaluzynski is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist living in Oakland, CA. Andrew's music endeavors to explore relationships between gesture and feedback, and the effects of aleatoric input on improvisations and compositions. Andrew often employs the use of obsolete...
06.24.2021
Alex Hawthorn
Alex Hawthorn is an Artist, Composer, and Technologist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn.His work interrogates notions of archive and memory, bringing together aspects of traditional composition and experimental sound design with elements of photography, videography, and other forms of...
04.15.2021
Andrew Barnes Jameson
Andrew Jamieson: composer, improviser, & bandleader of the Avant-Gospel Trouble Ensemble. We talk about dialogues in music and community, race relations in American music, cultural appropriation, and musical accountability. Andrew even does a live improvisation near the end of the...
03.29.2021
Scott Perry
Scott Perry earned his PhD in music composition from UCSB in 2019. He holds a BA from UCSB (CCS), an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a MA from UC Davis. His teachers include Beverly Grigsby, Jeremy Haladyna,...
02.26.2021
Jeremy Rosenstock
Jeremy Rosenstock is a composer, pianist, and installation artist in California. In this episode, originally aired 11/30/2020 on KCIA, we talk about his compositional outlook, Simone Weil, socialism, listening to sound on its own terms, a piano department, and many...
02.11.2021
Alison Niedbalski
Today's episode features Alison Niedbalski and the band she leads "qualia." Alison's music is tagged on bandcamp as: experimental, jazz, progressive death soul, torch gospel, great American songbook, and new wave old fashioned. Some of the things we talked about:...
01.26.2021
Tim Rowe
Tim Rowe is a drummer, painter, video maker. His video series "How to Play the Drums by Tim Rowe" uses all those mediums and others to touch upon subjects from the silly to the historical to the philosophical to...
01.13.2021
Cheryl E. Leonard
Cheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments,...
12.27.2020
Nathan Corder
Nathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people. Our chat covered topics like performer agency & control in composition, fixed media composition vs. composing for people and/or objects, and nontraditional ways of...
12.15.2020
Christoffer Schunk (Chris Sunk)
Christoffer Schunk is an artist based in Los Angeles. His portfolio vacillates between audio and theater, resulting in intricately staged productions, films, and sound art. His audio compositions incorporate almost everything: theatricality, humor, strange instrumentation (farts, hunting calls, dolls,...
12.06.2020
Pander Sera
Pander Sera is a noise-pop artist from the LA area. Our conversation touches on topics like practical uses of magic, equipment which grants a view on infinity, gender transition, pop punk as a modern folk music, and many other interesting...
12.06.2020
Memory Leaks Onto The Rug
Memory Leaks Onto The Rug is secretive and anonymous artist who has been recording tapes onto tapes since 2014, these days out of Santa Cruz, California. In this interview, originally aired 10/5/2020, we talk about some of their recent...
11.28.2020
AbstractJak
Composer/sound artist Dr. Ron K. Sedgwick received his PhD in music from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His acoustic and electro-acoustic works have received numerous awards and have been performed and broadcast throughout the world. He has studied composition...
11.10.2020
Patrick Talesfore Jr.
Patrick Talesfore, Jr. is a drum set artist from Sunnyvale, CA. His playing has been described by master drummer Kenwood Dennard as '...cognizant, deliberate, musical...like facing a life or death moment. Passion personified.' Since 2011, Patrick has performed solo and...

What's Outside Music Inside the Golden State about?

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Outside Music Inside the Golden State episodes:

Jeremy Haladyna

Joel Feigin

Anaís Azul

Dylan Marx

Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble

Daniel Newman-Lessler

Andrew Kaluzynski

Alex Hawthorn

Andrew Barnes Jameson

Scott Perry

Jeremy Rosenstock

Alison Niedbalski

Tim Rowe

Cheryl E. Leonard

Nathan Corder

Christoffer Schunk (Chris Sunk)

Pander Sera

Memory Leaks Onto The Rug

AbstractJak

Patrick Talesfore Jr.