Immunotopia: A thought-experiment opting from a thirty-years' perspective on one of the most devastating events in human history: the Covid era.

A brief episode on the inescapable historic reality of Zionism and its ramifications.

Ragtime S2 Episode 3: The Science.  A short 9’ episode which examines the true meaning - albeit rarely understood - of moral relativism, leading to an argument featuring a brief tour through the evolution of Western ideas philosophic, scientific, good as well as bad, based upon the quintessential theme of Western culture: Science.

A brief, experimental episode which examines and critiques certain points raised in the previous interview with Kristian Winther.

Ragtime Series 2 Episode#1: Is a Mushroom Cloud Beautiful?  Featuring virtuoso violinist, deep thinker and maverick artist Kristian Winther.

0:00. Intro: On a mushroom cloud

0:45. Introducing Kristian Winther

1:08. EXCERPT: Vanessa Mae playing Bach

1:51. Art and mass consumerism

5:23. Celebrating uniqueness

10:50.  Bruckner versus Mahler

15:30. Stravinsky and commercialism

19:05. EXCERPT: Beethoven Violin Sonata#10

22:42. Music being institutionalised 

31:15.  Celebrating weirdos

31:52.  A problem with diversity

35:09. Can anyone be a Bach?

37:35.  Preserving or overthrowing tradition

52:14. EXCERPT: Terry Riley Half-Wolf

55:36. EXCERPT: Orson Welles on art

56:47.  Are you religious about art?

58:19. Self-censorship

1’03:33. Beethoven Razumovsky Quartets

1’05:39. Can art save the world?

1’08:51. EXCERPT: Scheherazade

1’11:56.  EXCERPT: Brahms Piano Quartet in A

1’13:30. More on self-censorship

1’18:32. Are you a rebel?

1’25:44.  Is a mushroom cloud beautiful?

Ragtime #9: The Language of Violence.  A brief homage to Charlie Kirk, assassinated for opposing cult ideology. 

Ragtime #8: AI - A Necessary Predicament.  Examining the shattering relevance of Walter Benjamin's most prescient essay.

Ragtime #7 - The Mass Man: outlining the attributes of a most dangerous type of character, the  'mass-man', through the prism of Kierkegaard and Jung.

Outline of the attributes that form the mass-man; a most dangerous type of character.  The question remains - would you necessarily recognise such a person?

Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness: Few might imagine that a most celebrated street musician is in fact a brilliant academic intellect, composer, painter, poet, as well as a highly credentialed philosopher with extensive training in both Eastern and Western medicine.  Melvyn Cann is a genuine Renaissance-style polymath, embodying the empirical spirit of Diogenes with the humanity of Erasmus.

0’00 Intro

4’11 On the unknown

9’25 On the street

20’25 EXCERPT: Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)

23’11 With Celibidache in Munich

26’30 EXCERPT: Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony

28’10 On intensity

33’08 On preparing for exams

37’30 EXCERPT: Paganini Caprice 17

44’38 On the nature of the violin

48’30 EXCERPT: Brahms Violin Concerto

50’28 Scientific reductionism

52’27 EXCERPT: Beethoven Violin Concerto

1:01’18 Teaching composition

1:08’02 EXCERPT: Beethoven String Quartet Op.127

1:17’09 Synchronicity in life

1:21’59 EXCERPT: Gluck Melodie