BRIDGE podcast w/ John Lamberton

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You can support the Bridge Podcast over at Patreon.com/Lambertronix

If you'd like to support the Bridge Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/Lambertronix

If you'd like to support the Bridge Podcast you can do so over at Patreon.com/LambertronixSubstack post about the episode:https://lambertronix.substack.com/p/the-bridge-podcast-episode-55

You can support the Bridge Podcast by heading over to patreon.com/lambertronix

To support the Bridge Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

To support the Bridge Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

To support the Bridge Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

To support the Bridge Podcast w/ John Lamberton, head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

To support the BRIDGE podcast, head over to patreon.com/lambertronix

Support the Bridge Podcast via Patreon.com/lambertronix

If you'd like to support the BRIDGE Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

If you'd like to support the BRIDGE Podcast, head over to Patreon.com/Lambertronix

If you'd like to support the BRIDGE Podcast please head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

If you'd like to support the BRIDGE Podcast please head over to Patreon.com/lambertronix

Support the BRIDGE Podcast by heading over to patreon.com/Lambertronix

To support the BRIDGE podcast head over to patreon.com/lambertronix

You can support the BRIDGE podcast at patreon.com/lambertronix

You can support the BRIDGE podcast w/ John Lamberton through Patreon at patreon.com/lambertronix

You can support the BRIDGE Podcast w/ John Lamberton by heading over to patreon.com/lambertronixThe BRIDGE Podcast is also available in video format on YouTube

You can support the BRIDGE Podcast w/ John Lamberton by heading over to patreon.com/lambertronixThe BRIDGE Podcast is also available in video format on YouTube

You can support the BRIDGE Podcast w/ John Lamberton by heading over to patreon.com/lambertronixThe BRIDGE Podcast is also available in video format on YouTube

You can support the BRIDGE Podcast w/ John Lamberton by heading over to patreon.com/lambertronixThe BRIDGE Podcast is also available in video format on YouTube

My conversation with music theorist Bill Sethares

My conversation with John Stowell

A conversation with Michael Dessen

A conversation with Joan Pope

A conversation with Nick McMaster

A conversation with Jeremiah Cymerman

A conversation with Caroline Davis

A conversation with Anark

I speak with guitarist Joshua Payne

0:00 The coffee question...3:47 Quick biographical sketch / Seeing Miroslav Tadic4:50 CalArts and our dude Michael Kudirka (See Episode #4)6:22 "Quote-Unquote" "normal" songwriting8:07 Teaching kids, teaching neuroscience8:45 Beautiful Michigan and Mike again9:54 Finding a love of math and the brain (Victoria Booth and Michal Zochowski)11:45 Going into computational neuroscience12:07 Mike vs Mice12:17 Me analyzing Janet Jackson down to the millisecond12:47 Analytical insights on what makes a good album13:33 Unified whole without uniformity from song to song16:03 The new and novel / the adult addiction to competency17:56 Favorite guitarists?19:35 Tuning tedium on guitar / What does a day of MicroTone work look like?21:00 Creating algorithms for fret placement / Scott's tuning app25:00 2 cents on the octaves 1200 cents27:00 On scooching28:21 I foolishly say "ugly prime number"29:00 Does something like 13-TET or 23-TET screw all this up? Euler tuning?32:00 Math as rediscovering new things about things you've known about for a long time33:00 How might a musician find their way into math? / Learning styles34:57 "Another little rant..."38:30 Autocorrelation and tuning / Periodicity45:00 Boston University lab51:00 Audition vs Vision systems54:00 Jeff Hawkins book57:00 Jennifer Aniston neurons61:00 Bayesian Brain, Friston, Free Energy...63:00 Wacky VR ideas...66:00 Neil Harbisson68:00 Predictive coding73:00 Sonification?76:00 Experiment design86:00 MicroTone Guitar logo

0:00 The coffee question...3:47 Quick biographical sketch / Seeing Miroslav Tadic4:50 CalArts and our dude Michael Kudirka (See Episode #4)6:22 "Quote-Unquote" "normal" songwriting8:07 Teaching kids, teaching neuroscience8:45 Beautiful Michigan and Mike again9:54 Finding a love of math and the brain (Victoria Booth and Michal Zochowski)11:45 Going into computational neuroscience12:07 Mike vs Mice12:17 Me analyzing Janet Jackson down to the millisecond12:47 Analytical insights on what makes a good album13:33 Unified whole without uniformity from song to song16:03 The new and novel / the adult addiction to competency17:56 Favorite guitarists?19:35 Tuning tedium on guitar / What does a day of MicroTone work look like?21:00 Creating algorithms for fret placement / Scott's tuning app25:00 2 cents on the octaves 1200 cents27:00 On scooching28:21 I foolishly say "ugly prime number"29:00 Does something like 13-TET or 23-TET screw all this up? Euler tuning?32:00 Math as rediscovering new things about things you've known about for a long time33:00 How might a musician find their way into math? / Learning styles34:57 "Another little rant..."38:30 Autocorrelation and tuning / Periodicity45:00 Boston University lab51:00 Audition vs Vision systems54:00 Jeff Hawkins book57:00 Jennifer Aniston neurons61:00 Bayesian Brain, Friston, Free Energy...63:00 Wacky VR ideas...66:00 Neil Harbisson68:00 Predictive coding73:00 Sonification?76:00 Experiment design86:00 MicroTone Guitar logo

Buy Joel's book here:https://www.terranovapress.com/books/guitar-talk-conversations-with-visionary-players0:00 Introduction / Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players0:28 Coffee habits1:11 Coffee fanatics from the guitar world1:53 Interviewing guitarists5:33 The trifecta of "guitarist/composer/improviser"6:19 The Alt Guitar Summit6:44 What does "alt" mean to Joel? Does it imply modernism?9:09 Exhaustiveness in guitar 11:03 Mr. Goodchord stories13:43 Is there an ego problem among guitarists?14:29 What motivates the greatness of the guitarists in the book?15:43 Woodshed monastics17:43 Guitarists and gear fetishism19:21 The map of guitar lineages- Connection lost briefly -21:07 Nylon strings?23:00 EGBERTO!23:50 RIP Alan Holdsworth / Wishing you played a different instrument24:39 Jimmy Wyble (...and Bob Wills!)25:48 Any low hanging fruit for innovation in guitar?27:27 The guitarist alone with their MIDIs... Where is technique headed?29:52 Innovations in playing with soul vs maths31:00 Career stuff, learning, and growing33:00 Any mundane, practical insights?34:38 Wonderful weirdness and non-musical conversations35:09 Diversity in guitar36:20 Organization of the book36:48 Guitar Talk - the album38:10 How to pronounce "Motian"38:54 Organizing communities of guitarists41:32 Other albums and sign offSupport the BRIDGE podcast or access the exclusive Woodshed materials atpatreon.com/lambertronix

David's work really resonates with me as it bridges poetic domains like art and music with biology, ecology, and philosophy. It was a pleasure chatting with him and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

Colin is probably the busiest guy in metal with an overwhelmingly large discography of overwhelmingly ambitious music. As a performer he plays guitar in bands like Krallice and Encenathrakh, 6-string bass with death metal legends, Gorguts, and of course the infamous Warr guitar in the infamous prog outfit Behold... the Arctopus. In addition to his many projects as a performer, Colin maintains an active recording schedule at his studio, Menegroth, and has adapted quite impressively in the face of COVID-19 lockdowns with more albums than most people make in years. In this interview we talk for over 3 hours and cover a range of topics that I'll try to create timestamps for but for now I'm just happy it's done exporting and on the YouTubes. * This episode is dedicated to Trent Graham (1982-2012) -- Support the BRIDGE podcast via Patreon.com/lambertronix

Dušan Bogdanovič is literally the most interesting classical guitarist / composer. I can't begin to describe the influence and inspiration he's given me over the past decade or so. In this episode, Dušan and I talk espresso before we dive into aspects of his career ranging from improvisational adventures in 1990's Los Angeles to his recent retirement from the Geneva Conservatory and forthcoming book Harmony for Classical Guitar. We follow this up with another hour or so of shop talk about poetry, modern devaluation of form and meter, Balkan rhythmic asymmetry, African divisive rhythm, "multiple modernities", systematizing his polymetric and polyrhythmic pursuits, the qualitative experience of his internal clock(s), the intellectual potential of Elliott Carter's exhaustive set theoretic materials vs. the emotional potential of modal harmony, the extra spicy lydian flavors of Unconscious in Brazil, counterpoint with a less academic framing, recording with James Newton and Charlie Haden on the "very European" Early to Rise, the music of Egberto Gismonti, Dušan's thoughts guitarists like McGlaughlin/Metheny/etc, the microtonal works of Jeffrey Holmes, our mutual affection for Taoist esoterica, and a few thoughts on computer music. This conversation is a definite highlight of my year and I hope you enjoy listening!SHOW LESS

Theo and I talk about coffee, integration of different disciplines, maintaining old disciplines, the weirdness of ice skating, WinterIce with Uri Caine, the voice as a biological instrument, embodiment, effects of technology on live performance, the music of Kate Bush, Wilhelm Reich, the origin of his collaborations with Ben Monder, the recording process on Oceana, the Bleckmann woodshed, practicing what you aren't good at, developing a toolkit of extended techniques, Bob Ostertag, using loopers and other gadgets, Björk and her Medúlla vocalist crew, death metal vocals, getting softies from seeing laptops on stage, letting new technologies sterilize aesthetics, Theo's master-list of weird/adventurous vocalists, the bespoke music making and community building of Meredith Monk, whether or not "just putting in the time" is enough for artistic success, taking artistic risks, and inspiring resistance and refuge on This Land with The Westerlies.

John and I chat about the American ultra-modernist composer Elliott Carter as well as coffee, composition, set theory, continuity, modernism, algorithms, technology, and more. I particularly enjoyed the stories John shared about his time spent with Carter which gave me a little more insight into Carter's personality, disposition, affect, and drives. I also very much enjoyed getting a window into John's composition process and strategies. Carter's music has a sort of academic bent and comes with a daunting catalog of materials usually reserved for doctoral music theory classes but I feel like his musical language should be easy enough to get a feel for if you skim some wikis on set theory, combinatorics, permutations, etc. His rigorous methodology is pretty impressive and I wanted to learn more regarding his approach to internalizing such a vast swath of material.

Mark Fell is a computer musician and artist based in Rotherham. We chat about green tea, collaboration, algorithmic processes, remote performance during quarantine, fancy pliers, whether he or his son Rian Treanor is cooking dinner, working with John Chowning, and a lot more. I've been following Mark's work for years I'm very grateful for his generosity with him time. If you want some guidance in terms of where to start with his discography, I'd highly suggest:snd - AtavismMultistabilityanything from Sensate Focus

Sonya and I chat about coffee, cypherpunk, cyberpunk, nootropics, admiration for Gwern, Tor, Signal, Bitcoin, SciHub, PGP, opsec, threat modeling, encryption as a hermetic seal, Tarot vs Tetlock, zine making, artifact vs art, physically tangible art vs digital art, anarcho capitalism, distaste for cannabis culture, communicating across frameworks, becoming a theist after being an atheist, costly waste signaling, media diet suggestions, and more. Check out Sonya on Twitter @sonyasupposedly and her personal site: sonyasupposedly.comSHOW LESS

During the day he might be Mark Cichra CFA but by night... he's Money Hammer!Money Hammer is a brutal death metal one-piece that sets out with the mission statement to teach basic financial management skills. While the idea might sound absurd or silly, the riffs are as brutal and crushing as the 2017 Bitcoin dip.Check out Money Hammer on Bandcamp here:https://moneyhammer.bandcamp.com/

This conversation is mostly improvisation shop talk with my buddy Ross Bryant who does improvised comedy with the likes of Improvised Shakespeare Co. Unlike Ross, my interest in improvisation is specifically musical so I wanted to mind meld with him and see where our practices overlap, where they diverge, and what takeaways I might apply to my own work. Check out Ross's excellent doodles on Instagram: @rossbb

John is the CEO/founder of Decent Espresso. Today we chat about coffee drinking, non-coffee influences, espresso extraction styles, the new technical vocabulary used by the Decent community, flow profiling, Jonathan Gagné's conditional espresso, secondary puck compression, flow profiling, IoT and privacy, hackability, forays with ML temperature profiling, the water hammer, and espresso mayonnaise.

It was my pleasure to speak with Andy Schecter about coffee, espresso, extraction, proportional integral derivative controllers, data collection, god shots, the 'think tank'-y era of coffee forums, tofu, pressure profiling and more.

In this conversation we talk coffee, nootropics, Lawnmower Man, VR, air as medium, audio vs music or sound, audio as temporary social architectures made of air, manipulating wind and air in a public art installation, voice replication with machine learning, the listening space he facilitates "Black Hole LA" and different residencies they've featured, his parents' TM practice, music as sugar or vinegar, 25ms vs 40hz, and more. The conversation was too short to cover everything we wanted to so expect a second conversation in the coming weeks where we'll pick up on the topics from this episode as well as the implications of music and machine learning in the future. Check out more of Micah's work here: nophones.org The Black Hole listening space Micah facilitates: https://www.blackhole.la/ and his collection of essays on audio Figures in Air: https://www.amazon.com/Figures-Air-Micah-Silver/dp/1941753019

In this episode of the BRIDGE podcast, I speak with Magnus Vinding who writes on topics such as antispeciesism, veganism, suffering focused ethics, consciousness and more. In this conversation we do a lot of vegan shop talk including ways of eating, thoughts on "fake meat", cultured meat, and methylcobalamin vs cyanocobalamin before we get into the nitty gritty of utilitarian thought experiments. Toward the end I inquire about how artists and musicians can contribute to movements aimed at reducing suffering and we end the conversation on contemplative practice as a way to cultivate compassion. Here are the videos from Animal Ethics that Magnus refers to in the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQNclA8JyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBeQOz1Hzw Here's the Animal Ethics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCko1rYsrC9nBTjozImX-FEw The Dr. Gregor video on B12 that Magnus brought up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7m9RsPJYM&t=147&authuser=1 ...and Gregor on coffee: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd-ewr1tj8sc0iLpZwriMRt3

Jamie and I talk about espresso, our allegiance to soy milk, veganism in LA vs London, nutritional criticisms of veganism, a future of lab grown Peter Singer burgers, geographic vs temporal considerations in expanding one's moral circle, anti-speciesism, scope neglect thought experiments, wild animal suffering and invertebrate suffering, lifestyle adjustments vs financial offsets for animal welfare, normie reception of Tomasik's video game essay, Effective Altruism, consciousness as information processing, panpsychism gone wild, and the role of artists and musicians in movements like Sentientism. For more info please check out Jamie's website and blog: sentientism.info Find Jamie on twitter: @sentientism @jamiewoodhouse