Podcasts about ucla's school

In this up close interview, Zo Anthony Shay interviews sound artist and flutist Nicolo Scolieri, who works with historical recordings and creates ambient tracks for art installations and soundtracks. All music in this episode is the work of Nicolo.  After having studied Ethnomusicology at UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture, he went on to work for NPR and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an analog audio conservator and digtial audio storyteller, while continuing freelance radio production, tape syncs for the BBC, WNYC, and others, and writing and scoring fiction stories and ASMR. Using modular audio hardware and digital sound programming, he is currently building works of sound art and design, bridging gaps between lived experience and the physical sound world. Find out more about Nicolo here: https://nicoloscolierisound.neocities.org/ Listen to Nicolo's music here: https://soundcloud.com/nscolieri

Mary Neely grew up in the entertainment industry. Not only is she a native of L.A; but both of her parents also worked in the industry. So she's no stranger to the glitz and glam of it all. From an early age she wanted to be an actress. She got her B.A. in acting + Scandinavian culture from UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television, wrote a screenplay that became a top 40 finalist in The Academy's Nicholl Fellowship and then wrote, directed, produced, edited, and starred in her first short film THE DRESSER. The thing about Hollywood, is that you could wait your whole life to be 'discovered' or be given that perfect script. And Mary wasn't willing to wait for someone to find her. When she has an idea, she tests it out. That's how she's built her resume with so many accolades and accomplishments in such a short time. Including having her latest short film selected for SXSW. Mary is a self-taught director, who recognized the gap in strong female characters and decided to create a reality where they exist.

We discuss journalism, education, Williams syndrome, Trinity Broadcasting Network, and the changing shape of journalism.   Teri Sforza is a journalist, author, filmmaker and mom. She contributed to the Orange County Register's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of fertility fraud at UC Irvine, covered what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in America‘s history, and is the author of "The Strangest Song," the first book to tell the story of Williams syndrome and the extraordinary musicality of many of the people who have it. Sforza decided to harness the power of the moving image to help bring her stories to life, earned her M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, and has made two documentaries - "American Pie: Slices of Life (and pie) on America's Back Roads," which won the Audience Choice Award at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; and the OC Register's "The Boy Monk," a story that was also told as a series in the newspaper. Sforza birthed the OC Watchdog column aiming to keep a critical (but good-humored) eye on governments and nonprofits, large and small.   

This week we had the privilege of having Matthew Brensilver; teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, San Francisco Urban Dharma and Spirit Rock. Matthew Brensilver, PhD, began practice in the Tibetan tradition and since 2003, has studied with Shinzen Young. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at USC for four years and teaches about the intersection of mindfulness and psychotherapy at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. He conducts research on treatments for addiction at UCLA's School of Medicine. Matthew was trained by Noah Levine, with whom he teaches at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Talks are available at againstthestream.org/audio. He is in the Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training program.