Twin Cities Song Story

What do David Bowie, witches, chairs and fears have to do with a show about a couple planning a dinner party? Catalog Models (Mark Sweeney and Gemma Irish) dive into how these elements found their way into ‘Invitation’, the opening number to The Chair-builders their 2016 Minnesota Fringe Festival offering. After about seven minutes of […] The post Catalog Models | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 16 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Experience podcasts like they were before the internet! The NoisePicnic Podcast Festival is coming up August 28th and 29th at the Phoenix Theater. It will feature six live shows of all your favorite NoisePicnic Podcasts over two nights. Twin Cities Song Story will close out the festival with guests Philip Simondet, Tom Reed + Co-host, […] The post Phillip Gonzales in a Diner| Twin Cities Song Story: UnEpisode1 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Andrew Gaylord is a listener. If you ask him a question he’s more than likely to want to hear your answer than to give you his own. As one-half of PlaceBase productions he’s traveled across Minnesota collecting the stories of communities and spinning them into site-specific productions. When the company was approached to create a […] The post Andrew Gaylord | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 14 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Ted more is a sound designer and composer who thrives in punctuating stillness and tension. His work manipulates live instrumental performance and recordings with software through written processor effects. In this month’s podcast Ted Moore talks about his work on Persephone, staged at the Cowels Center in December 2014 with director-creator, Hannah K Hollman. Ted […] The post Ted Moore | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 13 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

In Fruit Fly: The Musical, Sheena Janson and Max Wajtanowicz thinly fictionalize twenty years of friendship between a gay man and straight woman. This month’s Song Story, features Max and Sheena discussing “I’m Totally Fine Without You” from Fruit Fly. They explore why their specific relationship felt necessary to bring to the stage and how […] The post Fruit Fly: The Musical | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 12 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

The much loved Minnesotan film Sweet Land, based on a short story by Will Weaver, is not standard musical theater material. The story lives in quiet actions and awkward silences as cultural barriers give way to understanding and eventually love. In these quiet moments Perrin Post found opportunity to create music that dives under the […] The post Sweet Land The Musical | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 11 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

It’s episode ten and it’s Jill Bernard! Jill is the creator of Drum Machine, the amazing one woman historically placed solo improvised musical. She’s also one of the most fearless and giving performers I’ve ever witnessed.   Jill created Drum Machine in 2002 and has toured it internationally. She talks about how music, history and […] The post Jill Bernard | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 10 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Ryan Dean creates work under the name The Live Instructional Video .  His 2014 Minnesota Fringe Festival show Lazerjuice was a multidisciplinary work of modular theatre that mixed elements of dance and electronic music with audience isolation, sketch comedy, puppetry, and movement. Also, it took place in space and had invisible robots. It surprised those […] The post The Live Instructional Video | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 9 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

David Darrow and Blake Thomas sit down after a long rehearsal to talk about ‘The Wandering Wondering’ from Jonah and the Whale: A New Musical. They wrote the song when faced with the challenge to develop a character after her death. Thomas comes from a more traditional folk songwriter background and is continually discovering new […] The post Jonah and The Whale | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 8 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Beaverdance! A Marxist Holiday Fur Trading Musical returns to Bedlam Theatre this holiday season after premiering in 2009. This time around the show has five new songs. In this episode composer Marya Hart and lyricist Dan Pinkerton talk about ‘One Click Shopping’, a snappy, toe tapping, slightly evil song about the availability of mass produced […] The post Beaverdance! | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 7 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Caroline Wigmore returns to the Twin Cities for a showcase of her original musical Van Winkle – A Folk Musical. She is joined by orchestrator, Jen Green. The two discuss the song ‘Watchin’ the Door.’ The post Van Winkle – A Folk Musical | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 6 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Sandbox Theatre’s Killer Inside is being billed as their own take on a Musical. This is the first time the group has incorporated music from the start of their idea-generating process. Theo Langason, Sandbox Ensemble Member, and Derek Trost talk about the song ‘I’ll Be Your Monster’ and how it evolved as it passed through the hands and voices of the Sandbox ensemble. The post Sandbox Theatre | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 5 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Let’s get a general idea as to why I’m doing this Podcast. Then I talk to Mark Sweeney about his song ‘A Matter of Time’ from his musical The Unknown Matters. It’s a musical about dark matter, exo-planets, working relationships and a lot of waiting for results. The post Mark Sweeney | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 4 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Keith Hovis stood out in the Minnesota Fringe Festival for his dark musical comedies, with Mrs. Housel: A Suicide Suite he gets seriously dark. We talk about his song ‘The Nine Lives of Mrs. Housel’ and the bit of Minnesota history that inspired his one-woman folk infused musical. The post Keith Hovis | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 3 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Eric Sharp let us pop by the Mu Performing Arts rehearsal room to talk about ‘Holy Crap, Here I Am’ from his new play Middle Brother. Middle Brother is a fictionalized physical theatre telling of his personal Korean adoptee experience. The post Eric Sharp | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 2 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

It’s the first episode of Twin Cities Song Story! This episode features Katie Hartman of The Coldharts. She guides us through the process behind writing ‘In the Valley of the Many Colored Grass’ for their show, Edgar Allan. The post Katie Hartman | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 1 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.