Category: Music
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Episode 60: Ravi Shankar
Joe and Mark are joined by Christopher Guerin, poet and music aficionado, who is on the podcast to champion the classical Indian musician Ravi Shankar.
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Episode 45: Ambient Electronic Music
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the super successful and super-fun science fiction writer, John Scalzi. Scalzi tells the lads about how he almost missed his first WorldCon, in Toronto, 2003, because he forget his passport at the airport. He rushed there just in time to sit on his first panel, where…
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Episode 32: Doug and the Slugs
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe are joined by documentary film maker Teresa Alfeld. She’s made two docs (as well as short films), The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical and Doug and the Slugs and Me. Both of the co-hosts listened to (and loved) Doug and the Slugs when the Canadian band was popular…
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Episode 23: Sonata Pathétique
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by author, amateur musician and a pioneer in computer graphics research, Brian Wyvill. (And Joe’s brother-in-law.) The trio have a fascinating conversation, beginning with Brian’s love of mountaineering, rock climbing and diving, before moving on to talk about one of Brian’s favourite pieces of music, Beethoven’s Piano…
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Episode 7: Appalachian Spring
Joe and Mark discuss “the Dean of American Composers” Aaron Copland’s seminal composition Appalachian Spring with one third of the Arrogant Worms, Michael McCormick.