Podcast – Studio of the Future

Dan Bullock

Dan Bullock is a writer, public speaker, leadership consultant, and singer/songwriter, a past director for Gov. Mark White, and served on many local boards. He’s been recognized in the Aus. American Statesman, Dallas MN, Southwest Airlines magazine, Texas Monthly and the West Austin News. I know Dan as a bon vivant and renaissance man. He’s married to Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, retired Head Curator of The Blanton Museum of Art here in Austin, and he is founder of “The Mosey Project,” his online blog that reflects Dan’s philosophy to slow down, be informed and make a difference.

Forrest Preece

Forrest Preece is a fifth generation Austin native who spent 39 years in the advertising business, running his own agency — Good Right Arm —for 28 of those years before retiring in 2005. He and his wife Linda Ball support a number of arts, literary and health-related causes in Austin and they are on the Director’s Council of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas. Since 2001, he has written a personalities column for West Austin News. A food and wine connoisseur, he is friends with all the local chefs, past and present.

Ocean Scientist and Author

Juli Berwald is an enthusiastic ocean scientist with a new book entitled, “Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone.” In college Juli’s first snorkel adventure took place in the Red Sea, where Marine invertebrates stole her heart. Hoping to study the ocean forever, she spent seven years building mathematical algorithms to interpret satellite imagery of the ocean, and received her Ph.D. in ocean science. Then she met her husband-to-be and drifted away from the ocean to Austin, Texas to start her family. She wrote textbooks and popular science articles for Wired.com, Oceanus, Redbook, and while writing for National Geographic Magazine, discovered a fact about jellyfish which led her back to the sea and the creation of this impactful, fascinating book.

Extras

Video from Science Magazine about research into jellyfish venom

Juli graciously provided a signed copy of her book “Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone” to support the Sanford Community Center.

All proceeds are tax deductible and 100% go to benefit renovations through the Palacios Community Coalition (501c3) toward the Sanford Community Center.

Contact your Studio of the Future Host, Sara Hickman, at [email protected] for more information!

Musician

What makes Terri’s harmonica playing unique? What is OYOU? What’s up with her affinity for goats? Why are women musicians never compared to male musicians—and vice versa? Why is self-esteem important? What has been the financial and physical impact of her epilepsy? What insight has Terri learned from being a DIY artist? All this and more on today’s episode of Studio of the Future with Terri Hendrix!

We discuss why women musicians are never compared to male musicians; why self-esteem is important; the financial impact of her epilepsy and what she’s learned about it as a condition; how the music industry has changed, her harmonica, social causes and more.

Links

http://www.terrihendrix.com

Terri has provided signed CDs to support the Sanford Community Center.

All proceeds are tax deductible and 100% go to benefit renovations through the Palacios Community Coalition (501c3) toward the Sanford Community Center.

Contact your Studio of the Future Host, Sara Hickman, at [email protected] for more information!

Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra

Our Studio of the Future guest today is Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay. Maestro Bay has appeared with seventy-five different orchestras around the globe including the National, Chicago, Houston, Bochum (Germany), as well as the Lithuanian and Ecuadorian National Symphonies, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center.

Not only is he a keen, energetic and admired leader for Austin’s symphony, Peter is the primary conductor for Ballet Austin, as well. For Austin Opera, he has conducted A Streetcar Named Desire, La Traviata, Turandot, and The Marriage of Figaro.

In 1994, he was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program. Maestro Bay recently conducted 300 participants in two fully staged productions of Leonard Bernstein’s epic work, MASS—celebrating the centennial of this legendary composer and conductor.

This episode was taped in June 2018, the weekend before Peter Bay conducted Bernstein’s Mass here in Austin at the Long Center.

Links

http://www.peterbayconductor.com

Truth Be Told is an Austin nonprofit which offers programs designed by women for incarcerated women. Through personal storytelling, writing and healing arts, TBT helps women to break free from the imprisoning cycle of past trauma and abuse. These various programs also reduce stigma and re-entry barriers for formerly incarcerated women. One of the unique programs includes inviting outside women from the arts community — dancers, poets musicians — to perform inside the prisons. By treating incarcerated women as unique and valuable human beings, these women begin to value themselves and gain the courage and tenacity to make better choices in their lives.

Pictured: Carol, Lisa, and Katie with SOTF co-founder and engineer Marty Lester.

Links

http://www.truth-be-told.org

Novelist, Screenwriter, and Journalist

Born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sarah Bird grew up in an Air-Force family stationed in Japan. She discovered she wanted to be a writer after stumbling upon French photo romances.

Including her latest novel, “Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen,” Sarah is the author of ten previous books, most recently 2014’s “Above the East China Sea.” She has written screenplays for Paramount, CBS, Warner Bros, National Geographic, ABC, TNT and several independent producers. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and O Magazine. Sarah has been selected for New York Public Library’s 25 Books to Remember list, and recognized by Elle Magazine (Reader’s Prize), People Magazine (Page Turners), Library Journal (Best Novel) and a National Magazine Silver Award for her Texas Monthly columns.

In 2012, Sarah was voted Best Austin Author for the fourth time by the readers of the Austin Chronicle; was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame; and received the Illumine Award for Excellence in Fiction from the Austin Library Foundation. In 2013, she was selected to be The University of Texas’ Libraries Distinguished Author speaker, and was featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour.

Sarah lives in Austin, Texas.

Links

http://www.sarahbirdbooks.com

Sarah was a photo journalist early in her career and we talk about her work covering off-beat and, primarily, African-American rodeos.

Here’s some of her photos and also pix of her as a child/young woman.

Sarah graciously provided a signed copy of her book Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen to support the Sanford Community Center.

All proceeds are tax deductible and 100% go to benefit renovations through the Palacios Community Coalition (501c3) toward the Sanford Community Center.

Contact your Studio of the Future Host, Sara Hickman, at [email protected] for more information!

Folk Musician

With two Grammy nominations, Eliza Gilkyson is a singer/songwriter and activist, one of the most respected musicians in the Folk, Roots and Americana genres today. The daughter of legendary songwriter Terry Gilkyson (“Bare Necessities”), Eliza began recording demos for her father while she was a teenager. Since then, she has released 20 recordings of her own, including her latest release, 2018’s “Secularia,” a collection of spiritually charged songs that do not fit within the parameters of traditional religious beliefs. Eliza challenges each of us to be accountable for our actions in such perilous times. This album’s stunning performances include the acclaimed Tosca String Quartet; cameos with Shawn Colvin, gospel singer Sam Butler, and a duet with her dear friend, the late Jimmy LaFave. There are several songs adapted from poetry by her grandmother Phoebe Hunter Gilkyson and music by her father, Terry.

Her music has been covered by Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush and Rosanne Cash and used in films, PBS specials and on prime-time TV.

Eliza has appeared on NPR, Austin City Limits, Mountain Stage, etown, XM Radio, Air America Radio and toured worldwide as a solo artist. She has also performed in support of Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dan Fogelberg, as well as with the Woody Guthrie review, alongside the Guthrie Family, Jimmy Lafave, Slaid Cleaves, and with special guests Pete Seeger, Jackson Browne and Kris Kristofferson. She has been inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in the company of such legends as Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt and Nanci Griffith and is an ongoing winner of the Austin Chronicle’s various music awards, as well as numerous coveted Folk Alliance awards.

Eliza’s meditative “Requiem,” written as a prayer for those who lost their lives in the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia, was recorded by the internationally recognized choral group Conspirare, whose version was nominated for a Grammy and won the prestigious Edison Award in Europe. The song has become a standard in choir repertory the world over. Two of her songs appeared on Joan Baez’ Grammy-nominated CD, “Day After Tomorrow.”

In 2011 and 2012, Eliza and label-mates John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky performed as “Folk Super Trio” Red Horse, a side project whose CD stayed for months at the top of the Folk Music Charts. In 2014, Eliza was invited to contribute a track on the Jackson Browne tribute, “Looking Into You”, along with Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Sara Watkins, Shawn Colvin, Bonnie Raitt and others.

Links

http://elizagilkyson.com

Support Sanford Community Center

Eliza left 3 signed posters (one signed “Secularia,” her new CD) to raise funds for the renovation of the Sanford Community Center in Palacios, Texas.

All proceeds are tax deductible and 100% go to benefit renovations through the Palacios Community Coalition (501c3) toward the Sanford Community Center. All items are $30 each (includes s&h).

Contact your Studio of the Future Host, Sara Hickman, at [email protected] for more information!

Texas State Senator, Former Austin Mayor

Does he need a haircut? What woman influenced him the most? What has he learned about innovation? Is his favorite film “Galaxy Quest?” What would Ann Richards do about Trump? Why the resistance must have results, the #metoo movement, his legislative efforts and more.

Links

http://www.kirkwatson.com

Visual Artist

Ron shares his thoughts on everything from street art to appearing on Morton Downey Jr. (and why he didn’t get beaten up). We also discuss jail, how licensing well-known characters is very different in Asia to his meeting Trump (and what Trump asked him.) Plus his first encounter with crayons, his powerful poster for the Obama campaign and more.

Photo by Todd Wolfson

Gallery

Extras

Bonus Track: Tribes

Bonus Track: Black Out

Sara Hickman’s “Little.Yellow.Different.”

Support Sanford Community Center

Ron English (Episode 1, our first SOTF guest!) donated these 2 soft sculptures, 3 CDs and an XL t-shirt — all objects of his wildly creative mind and output!

Ron graciously brought all these items himself and even signed the Young MC sculpture while at our studio taping (on the back).

All proceeds are tax deductible and 100% go to benefit renovations through the Palacios Community Coalition (501c3) toward the Sanford Community Center.

Contact your Studio of the Future Host, Sara Hickman, at [email protected] for more information!

Ta-dah! A teaser promo of our August 15 release of the first STUDIO OF THE FUTURE podcast, an amalgamation of our first five guests. Podcast #1 is with world-renowned visual artist Ron English, sharing his thoughts on everything from street art to appearing on Morton Downey, Jr. (and why he didn’t get beaten up) to being arrested (for posting a sticker!) to meeting Trump (and what Trump asked him.) XO from my super pal universe and Everywhere Audio Studios!

About Sara Hickman

Sara Hickman is the producer and host of the podcast Studio of the Future. She is a musician, singer/songwriter, visual artist, and the State Musician of Texas (2010-2011), sandwiched between Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett. She has performed twice on “The Tonight Show,” has been nominated for a Grammy, received an Honorary Degree from the National Association of Music Therapists, and you’ve heard her voice in commercials for Popeye’s, Daisy Sour Cream, Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, and many others. While State Musician, she oversaw the production of “The Best of Times,” in which 39 of her songs were performed by prominent Texas musicians (Willie Nelson, Shawn Colvin, Robert Earl Keen, Brave Combo, Marcia Ball, Ruthie Foster, etc) with all proceeds benefiting Creative Action, a non-profit that provides art and theatre collaborations in Central Texas schools. Her recordings have been used in TV and film, including “The Vampire Diaries,” “All My Children,” “American Idol,” and “Arachnophobia,” and she continues to receive humanitarian awards for her philanthropic endeavors. In Uganda, Sara teamed up with her dear friend, Lynne Dobson, to record an anniversary album with the African Children’s Choir and is currently involved in building a much needed fistula hospital for women and girls, the first of its kind for the country. Sara is currently concentrating on this podcast, producing/booking the MossFest Family annual concert series and creating visual art. She is mother to two freakin’ awesome daughters and has a very patient husband, who is a designer and photographer for their design company, Stingray.

Learn more about Sara at sarahickman.com.

About Marty Lester

Everywhere Audio is led by 30-year veteran audio-engineer, Marty Lester. Marty worked in both Los Angeles and Austin recording with talented artists such as Ani DiFranco, Alejandro Escovedo, Tracy Chapman, Iggy Pop, Dale Watson, and Sara Hickman. Since 1995, Marty has found his passion in audio post production and live recording and has been expanding into other areas such as podcasts and webcast production. His clients have included KCRW, SXSW, as well as ADR/dialogue/music recording/editing and sound design for “Walking Dead,” “Futurama,” “The Simpsons,” Lollapalooza, and many other television, commercial jingle, and film projects.

Connect with Everywhere Audio at www.everywhereaudio.com.

Photo by Todd Wolfson