SIMM-podcast

The 18th SIMM-podcast episode is focussing on research on the practice of participatory projects of opera and music theatre. SIMM-founder Lukas Pairon interviews Graça Mota (0'30->15'53), François Matarasso (15'55->31'22) and Imogen Flower (31'30->41'25).Referenced during this podcast-episode: Gata Perduda (Liceu), Paul Griffiths, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Paulo Lameiro, participatory action research (PAR), SAMP, Sex Workers Opera, SIMM research seminar on participat...

This 17th SIMM-podcast episode is focussing on the practice of participatory projects of opera and music theatre. SIMM-founder Lukas Pairon interviews three wonderful practitioners, who are developing projects in this field: Paulo Lameiro (01'05->25'30), Sarah Théry (26'20->54'30), and Claire Pasquier (54'55->70'10). This is a somewhat longer episode, but we think it makes sense to take the time to listen to the details Paulo, Sarah and Claire give about how they decided to dev...

The 16th episode of the SIMM-podcast presents the 5th edition of the Compendium of Music as a Global Resource, which you can read online here. SIMM-director Lukas Pairon interviews the 2 co-editors Barbara Hesser and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet. Barbara Hesser has been editor of all 5 editions of the Compendium. She is professor at and head of the Steinhardt New York University music therapy training programme. She has also been president of the American Music Therapy Association.Brydie...

This 15th episode of the SIMM-podcast is a reflective one. The main guest in this episode is sociologist Hartmut Rosa (16'30->45'54). Lukas Pairon interviews him on his book ‘Resonance – A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World’, but we also hear interviews with musicians Tom Pauwels (2'33->6'50), Chrissy Dimitriou (6'56->8'40), Michael Schmidt (8'46->14'40 + 23'20->24'35 + 28'56->31'10) and Filip Verneert (14'48->16'13).Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociol...

This 14th SIMM-podcast episode is presenting interviews with British musician-scholar-trainer Jonathan Vaughan (00:22->19:35), American musician-trainer Louise Zeitlin (20:10->33:05), Belgian organist, composer, conductor and opera director Bernard Foccroulle (33:34->45:53) and conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, writer, and human rights activist André de Quadros (45:56->60:44).We hear Lukas Pairon interview them about training and accompanying programmes proposed ...

This 13th SIMM-podcast episode is presenting interviews with Canadian composer-musician-scholar Fiona Evison (00:57-><16:58), Belgian musician Bart Maris (17:25->36:00), Cypriot composer-musician-scholar Georgia Nicolaou (36:40->43:30) and Canadian conductor-composer Patrick Murray (43:53->47:51). We hear Lukas Pairon interview them about which music is being proposed, played, created and composed in social and community music programmes.The short music extracts you will ...

This 12th SIMM-podcast episode is presenting interviews with Australian composer-musician-scholar Cathy Milliken (00:51->26:50), German musician-scholar Sean Prieske (26:52->46:42) and American teacher-musician-scholar Frank Heuser (46:45->63:57). We hear Lukas Pairon interview them about the impact of the groups of participants in social and community music programmes often being pluriversally composed.The short music extracts you will hear are recordings of the differe...

This 11th SIMM-podcast episode is presenting the French social music programme DEMOS, an initiative launched by the Philharmonie de Paris in 2010. We hear Lukas Pairon interview co-founder and director Gilles Delebarre (03:11->18:38) as well as research coordinator Indiana Wollman (18:40->31:06). The Philharmonie de Paris and its social music programme DEMOS will be hosting the 6th international SIMM-posium on 2nd and 3rd November 2021. The programme of this year’s SIMM-posium wi...

In this 10th SIMM-podcast episode Lukas Pairon interviews Inês Lamela (01:54->13:33) and Graça Mota (13:35->28:29) from Portugal, Aine Mangaoang (28:31->43:09) from Ireland who is now living and working in Norway, and Ailbhe Kenny (43:11->54:23) from Ireland. We discuss with them about research on music programmes in detention.One previous episode of the SIMM-podcast already treated these topics: In the 3rd episode we interviewed John Speyer, Mary Cohen and André de Quadros. ...

In this 9th SIMM-podcast episode we hear Lukas Pairon interview musicians Inês Lamela (01:05-30:23), Dirk Proost (30:25-38:24), Filip Verneert (38:25-48:27) and Sarah Thery (48:30-74:58) about what motivates them to want to engage themselves in social and community music projects, and also about how they prepare themselves for this type of work. These musicians are 4 very different personalities, from different countries and musical worlds. But listening to them during this somewhat long...