Outside Music Inside the Golden State

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, Kurt Rohde, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger, Pablo Ortiz, Mika Pelo, David Rosenboom, Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow.

Pieces featured, in order heard:
Continuum Music One
Three Spells
Regression, Tone Painting for Orchestra
Study in A-Rhythmicon
Study in C-Utonal-Rhythmicon
Continuum Music Thirteen A
Continuum Music Thirteen B

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 other things. You can also hear some selections of his great music!

Pieces featured, in order heard:
Renunciation of Time (unreleased)
cairn eight: i
ice transducing, 5.13.20

https://jr0se.bandcamp.com/
https://issuu.com/jeremyrosenstock
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5QIwlwQBXfJkRPLligVINw

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: covering Captain Beefheart songs, the legacy of Carla Bley & Annette Peacock, the effect of trauma on the creative process, many friends, and we preview a track for her upcoming record "Beside." Check it out!

Songs Featured, in order heard:
Missed Me (to be released on forthcoming album 'Beside')
Zig Zag Wanderer
Dropout Boogie
ida lupino's last stand
needs (redistributed)
the way we never were
Trouble

www.qualia-is-real.com/

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 the purely musical. We talk about his careers as a drummer & painter, how he makes his videos, why he makes the artistic decisions he makes, his personal connection to & political views of 9/11, and also  a little about the rest of his life.

Videos featured, in order heard (or mentioned):
Closet Bonzo
Alphabet
Click. Track
Levon in the Underworld
Sean Meehan Reads my 9th Grade Yearbook Pt 2.
Dielman
The Chromesthesia of Elvin Jones.
America at War
Walking Music (called 'Trees' in the interview)
Lisa Mezzacappa in Real Musicians Have Day Jobs
Trio with Steve Adams and Myles Boisen
The Six Sacred Objects
Levon in Limbo

https://timrowe.blog/
YouTube Channel

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, and often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales.

We talk about her time at Palmer Station in Antarctica, her instruments built from natural objects, Tenaya Lake, about her compositional process, and about several specific works.

Pieces featured, in order heard:
Adélie Colony Young Chicks
Frozen Over
Ablation Zone (unreleased)
In The Gloaming

http://allwaysnorth.com/

https://cherylleonard.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/ieallwaysnorth

'Music from the Ice' Blog

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 conceiving rhythm and musical time.

Pieces featured, in order heard:
Untitled (for string trio and electronics)
Appetite
Push
Lockstep

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, to name a few), noise, and many other things.

We talk a bit about content production on the internet, his switch from experimental music to TikTok videos, and of course how he writes his music.

Featured tracks, in order heard:
Jackrabbit
Deer
Mourning Dove
Did You
Find

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 things.

https://pandersera.bandcamp.com/

https://pandersera.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8uxKf6JYUIR5tUjKm-v_g

https://soundcloud.com/pander-sera

https://vimeo.com/pandersera

Pieces & songs featured in this episode, in order:
Yard Work
Con Past Young
Jelly Band
Hana the Giant
Catch Me
honey
sun on bone

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 and older music releases, how they make music, names, and about birds and plants and places.

Check out their bandcamp:
https://memoryleaksontotherug.bandcamp.com/

Their YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqpT7ChVWDfJabui-D98UA

Their SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/mlotrug

And some related projects made by the same person:
https://memoryleaks.bandcamp.com/, https://laymeekroms.bandcamp.com/releases

Tracks featured in this episode, in order:
Spring Cinquefoil
Sweet-pea Shrub
Smilax Asparagus
Green Carpet
front noseslide
lay meek srmo
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Bubble Pushing

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 with Professors Joel Feigin, Karen Tanaka, Kurt Rohde, Samuel Adler, and electronic music with Professors Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow.

Check out his bandcamp:
https://abstractjak1.bandcamp.com/