Make/Work Episode 40: Kate Schatz
In Episode 40 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer and activist Kate Schatz.
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Posts Tagged: Scott Pinkmountain
Make/Work Episode 39: Dorian Wood
In episode 39 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with musician, vocalist, and experimental performer Dorian Wood.
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Make/Work Episode 38: Beth Pickens
In episode 38 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, which begins its second season, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with Beth Pickens, an LA-based consultant for artists and arts organizations.
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Make/Work Episode 37: Melody Parker
In Episode 37 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with composer, singer, and producer Melody Parker about her incredible new album, Archipelago.
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Podcatcher #6: The History Channeler
Scott Pinkmountain, host of The History Channeler, on how he created the podcast, music, comedy, and his love of Tom Cavanagh.
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Podcatcher #5: #GoodMuslimBadMuslim
Podcatcher talks with Taz Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim about the podcast format, finding humor in absurdity, and diversity within the Muslim identity.
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Make/Work Episode 36: Abeer Hoque
In Episode 36 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with author and photographer Abeer Hoque about her long journey to publication, and her obsession with memory and nostalgia.
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #6
Welcome back the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. This is the final installment: the round up. I’m relieved and overjoyed to say the project was fully funded and then some. No Country Music will have a proper release on vinyl with some extra […]
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Make/Work Episode 35: Dru Farro
In Episode 35 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with scholar Dru Farro about his role on the fringes of academia, his deeply ingrained American reluctance to seek medical attention, and his eventual and abstract creative goals.
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #5
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. At the time of writing, there’s just under a week to go with the campaign. At the time of publication, there will be one day left. The good new is, we made it. Funded! […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #4
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Before I started working on my campaign, I asked friends what they thought about Kickstarter. I was kind of surprised by the negative responses. Everything from “Kickstarter is dead,” to comparing crowdfunding to a […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #3
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Wooo! Things are going amazing! We’re more than 2/3 of the way there and it’s been less than two weeks! We’ve received over one hundred pledges! We got selected as a staff pick (a […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #2
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. As much preparation as I have done for this beast, which I managed to drag out over six long months of dread, procrastination, and ambivalence about the entire concept of crowdfunding, I immediately discovered […]
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Make/Work Episode 34: Joy Castro
In Episode 34 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks to Joy Castro about her unorthodox writing process, the course of her career, and the distinctions between literary and commercial fiction.
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #1
Today marks the launch of my first Kickstarter campaign and this blog mini-series, where I’ll be writing about the experience as it unfolds. I’m attempting to raise money to release an album. I feel strongly about this album. I love it. It’s maybe the best thing I’ve made yet. But for some reason, I’ve been […]
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Make/Work Episode 33: Daniel Baird and Alex Chitty
In episode 33 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artists Daniel G. Baird and Alex Chitty.
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Make/Work Episode 32: Nathan Langston
In episode 32 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poet and composer Nathan Langston about the origin and development of his most recent project, and the effect it’s had on his creative and personal life.
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Make/Work Episode 31: Aurora Tang
In episode 31 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with researcher/curator Aurora Tang, who has built a career around thinking about sustainability for artists and arts organizations.
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Make/Work Episode 30: Jon Nielsen
In episode 30 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist/composer Jon Nielsen about becoming disillusioned with the music scene, and hitting the road in search of motivation.
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Make/Work Episode 29: David Meltzer and Julie Rogers
In episode 29 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poets David Meltzer and Julie Rogers about maintaining a long-term creative practice, the role of poetry in the US, music, and politics.
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Make/Work Episode 28: Pamela Z
In episode 28 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the composer/performer Pamela Z about her penchant for databases, life without a security net, and the benefits of the one-a-day Squickie.
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Make/Work Episode 27: Saul Melman
In episode 27 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with emergency room physician and visual artist Saul Melman about the parallels between creative practice and caregiving.
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Make/Work Episode 26: Christine Hiebert
In episode 26 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with visual artist Christine Hiebert about limitations, the relationship between drawing and musical improvisation, and of course, lines.
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Make/Work Episode 25: Jim Ragen
In episode 25 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer Jim Ragen, who has been working on a five-volume novel spanning generations of life in the Dakotas.
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Make/Work Episode 24: Artist Roundtable
In episode 24 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain hosts a conversation between four artists about labor power, the difference between honesty and truth in art, and public vs. private practices.
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Make/Work Episode 23: Katherine Ball
In episode 23 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the artist/activist Katherine Ball about the importance of the “yes” and the “no” and the poetry in creative activism.
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Make/Work Episode 22: Mick
In episode 22 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist and songwriter Mick about his childhood abuse, drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.
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Make/Work Episode 21: Mona Tian
In episode 21 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with violinist Mona Tian about her lost childhood, and how she eventually had to discover her own reasons and motivations to continue playing music as an adult.
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Make/Work Episode 20: Gene V. Baker
In episode 20 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with musician Gene V. Baker about finding time for his creative practice outside of a consuming day job.
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Make/Work Episode 19: Angela C. Villa and Thollem McDonas
In episode 19 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with documentarian Angela C. Villa and musician Thollem Macdonas.
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