Podcast appearances and mentions of wendel patrick

If you have enjoyed the podcast please take a moment to subscribe, and also please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. The way the algorithm works, this helps our podcast reach more listeners. Thanks from IC for your support. New from Inspire Citizens: Inspired Coaching & Inspired Experiences Learn more about how Inspire Citizens co-designs whole-school service learning programsYou can book a discovery call with Inspire Citizens at this linkShare on social media using #EmpathytoImpactEpisode Summary Oprah Winfrey said, “Everybody has a story. And there is something to be learned from every experience.” Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick fully embrace this with the mosaic of stories that they capture hiding in plain sight on their podcast Out of the Blocks.  I invite you to join me on this encore episode to hear about how this idea became a powerful learning experience for students and think about how the power of storytelling might transform your classroom. 

WYPR and WTMD have been partners since 2021. Today, we are announcing the formation of a new company that will serve as an umbrella for both stations. The two stations will join together as Baltimore Public Media to serve listeners in Baltimore and beyond. We speak with Craig Swagler is the President and General Manager of Baltimore Public Media. We are also joined by Wendel Patrick is a composer, performer and educator, and the host of ArtWorks on Maryland Public Television. He is the composer of the musical, sonic identities for WYPR and WTMD.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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Here's a Stoop Story from Out of the Blocks producer and artist Wendel Patrick about meeting his musical inspiration. Find out more about the Stoop Storytelling Series - check out upcoming live events and listen to the Stoop podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now, we turn to our good friends, Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick. They are the creative team behind WYPR's award-winning podcast series, Out of the Blocks.   The premise of the series is genius-simple: the producers pick a block, here in Baltimore, or elsewhere, they interview and photograph the people who live and work in that block, and they edit together a collage of profiles of those people and their stories. Aaron edits the collages. Wendel composes music to fit the voices of everyone whose stories we hear. The series comes to a close tonight, when the final episode of the podcast will be posted on-line. You can hear an excerpt from the episode on Thursday morning during Morning Edition...  The series garnered a national Edward R Murrow award in 2018. It introduced us to folks from around the city of Baltimore, and also let us meet people in communities well outside of Baltimore. Aaron Henkin has been hosting another great podcast, The Daily Dose, throughout the pandemic. He has started a new project here at WYPR that is so new, it doesn't have a title yet. Wendel Patrick is a performing musician, a faculty member at the Peabody Institute, and the host of Artworks on MD Public Television. On Thursday night, August 26, Aaron and Wendel will hold an event to talk about the series, and offer tips on DIY interviewing, on the hill at Patterson Park. That event starts at 6:00. For details, click here. Aaron Henkin joins Tom in Studio A, and Wendel Patrick connects with us on Zoom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wendel Patrick has been referred to as “David Foster Wallace reincarnated as a sound engineer” by Urbanite Magazine and as “wildly talented” by the Baltimore Sun. He has been referred to by XLR8R magazine as “a hip-hop producer that could easily make any fan of Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, or Madlib flip out.” The alter-ego of classical and jazz pianist Kevin Gift, Wendel Patrick has made a name for himself internationally as a music producer of remarkable vision, skill and talent. His five albums: Sound, Forthcoming, JDWP, Passage, and Travel were all produced without the use of sampling, with Patrick playing every note of every instrument. What is perhaps most astounding and perplexing to listeners is that there are actually no instruments…he crafts all of the instruments, and plays every note, electronically. Equally at home performing on stage with his band, behind two turntables, beatboxing, improvising, or playing a Mozart Concerto on stage with orchestra, Wendel Patrick has toured Europe on several occasions and performed throughout the world with renowned spoken word artist and poet Ursula Rucker (The Roots, 4 Hero). In 2014, Wendel Patrick traveled to Australia as a guest lecturer, speaking about music production and entrepreneurship in the arts at The Australian Institute of Music in both Sydney and Melbourne. In 2011, Wendel Patrick co-founded the Baltimore Boom Bap Society, with Erik Spangler (DJ Dubble8) that performs monthly improvised hip hop shows with hand picked musicians and emcees. The group's collaborative performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale was recently named “Best Mesmerizing Performance of 2016” by Baltimore Magazine. Wendel Patrick's music has also been heard across the country on NPR stations, most notably on Out of the Blocks, an award winning radio documentary program he co-produces with radio producer Aaron Henkin for  NPR affiliate WYPR that has been featured by the Third Coast International Audio Festival and Hearing Voices as well as on the BBC. Recent performances included a new collaboration between the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Boom Bap Society, on which Patrick's orchestral compositions were performed. An avid photographer and videographer, his photography has been exhibited in several art galleries including the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Chicago. Patrick shoots all of the accompanying documentary photography and videography for Out of the Blocks . Wendel Patrick/Kevin Gift majored in both music and political science at Emory University and earned his M.M. in Piano Performance as a scholarship student at the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston Illinois. Patrick is a winner of the 2015 Baker Artist Awards' Mary Sawyers Baker grand prize and was a member of the faculty at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland from 2001 to 2013 teaching piano, introduction to music theory, music history and electronic music production. He has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at Loyola University Chicago where he was Department of Fine and Performing Arts Guest Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Wendel Patrick is currently a professor at The Peabody Music Conservatory - Johns Hopkins University where he teaches “Hip Hop Music Production: History and Practice”, the first course of its kind to be taught at a major traditional music conservatory anywhere in the United States. He has recently been named as the new host of the “Artworks” television program on Maryland Public Television/PBS.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It really makes a difference and it's always nice to read kind words.Follow us on Twitter and  InstagramBe sure to check out our other podcasts:Mastermind Team's Robcast - Mastermind Team's Robcast is an irreverent and hilarious podcast covering all things pop culture and weird news. Let's Watch It Again - Let's Watch It Again is a movie review podcast from MTR The Network.★ Support this podcast ★

By the time he was 10 years old Wendel Patrick was a seasoned traveler. The Trinidadian-American came to the states after time in other Caribbean countries and even a stint in South America (fun fact: you can see the shores of Venezuela from his family's home country). No matter where he was, music was a constant in his life. His father was an audiophile and Wendel observed the care and patience his dad practiced when tending to his vinyl collection. As Wendel got older, he demonstrated an astonishing proficiency for music and pursued music as a profession. Listen as Wendel talks about his beginnings in music training, how the sound of a piano while attending Emory University brought him back to music, and why "it takes what it takes" when he creates his projects.

For Episode 10, Host Piper Greenbaum interviews sound engineer and music producer Wendel Patrick. Wendel Patrick has been referred to as "David Foster Wallace reincarnated as a sound engineer" by Urbanite Magazine and as "wildly talented" by the Baltimore Sun. He has been referred to by XLR8R magazine as "a hip-hop producer that could easily make any fan of Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, or Madlib flip out." The alter-ego of classical and jazz pianist Kevin Gift, Wendel Patrick is rapidly making a name for himself as a producer to be recognized. His five albums, Sound:, Forthcoming, JDWP, Passage, and Travel were all produced without the use of sampling, with Patrick playing every note of every instrument. What is perhaps most astounding and perplexing to listeners is that there are actually no instruments...he crafts all of the instruments, and every note, electronically. Learn more about Wendel Patrick at wendelpatrick.com

Today, conversations with musicians across musical genres, to see how they are faring in an online-only world. Later in the show, Tom speaks with three pianists with local roots whose work has taken them to venues around the world: Classical pianist Lura Johnson; composer, producer and pianist Wendel Patrick; and virtuoso jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut. We begin with a look at Maryland’s largest arts organization, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The BSO’s performances, of course, have been put on hold -- except its online offerings. Brian Prechtl is a percussionist with the BSO, and the head of the Players Committee. Peter Kjome is the orchestra’s president and CEO. They join Tom on Zoom, like all our guests today.

Baltimore-based pianist and jazz innovator Lafayette Gilchrist joins Tom in the Midday studio to muse on the makings of his second solo CD, Dark Matter, out today (July 19) on the Lafayette Gilchrist Music label. The eleven tracks on the new disc were all recorded live in front of an ----intimate---- crowd at the University of Baltimore's Wright Theater in 2016 by acclaimed hip-hop producer Wendel Patrick (the composer and co-producer with Aaron Henken of WYPR's award-winning ----Out of the Blocks---- podcast series, and a man also known in music circles as classical and jazz pianist Kevin Gift). Over the course of the session, Lafayette Gilchrist's compositions range from deeply personal meditations to socially conscious declarations.We open the segment with the title track, Dark Matter, listen to a bit of Blues for Our Marches to End, and close the show with Black Flight, Gilchrist's ode to the famed African American WWII fighter pilots known as the Tuskeegee Airmen.

Baltimore in Maryland (Population: 611,000) is the birthplace of baseballer Babe Ruth and of the US national anthem 'The Star Spangled Banner'. It's a historic port and manufacturing centre, with more heritage buildings per capita than any other US city. But Baltimore's also got an unwanted reputation for crime, drugs and violence. 'Out Of The Blocks' started up as a short audio project 6 years ago: an experiment to collect stories by chance, and to capture the distinctive sounds of individual city blocks. We play some of an award-winning episode of the show called 2100 Edmondson Avenue and speak to host and creator Aaron Henkin, who makes the show with photographer and musician Wendel Patrick.

As the year comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to look back and remember some important contributors to local cultural and civic life who we lost in 2018. This is by no means an exhaustive list. I simply want to mention a few people I was blessed to know, and who our community was blessed to have. Tom Saunders died in January. He was an accomplished historian of local African American history, who led bus tours of important sites throughout the city. His tours drew thousands of people. He took them to Frederick Douglass’ house, the house where Thurgood Marshall was born, and the “Colored Pool,” that had long been abandoned in Druid Hill Park. He was a masterful story-teller, and having worked at the city Rumor Control office for many years, he knew very well how to separate fact from fiction.Few people knew John Taylor by his given name, but thousands of children knew him as Kinderman. He drove his Kindermobile from his base in Howard County to schools, festivals and conferences around the region, delighting children and their parents with his songs and dances, that he presented gently, lovingly and always with large dollops of audience participation. John passed away last July. In August, Baltimore lost one of its most dynamic, determined, and dedicated citizens. Sally Michel was a force of nature, an irrepressible spirit, and one of the most generous and committed people our city has ever known. She was a trusted advisor to Mayor Donald Schaefer, and a civic powerhouse who transformed Baltimore immeasurably. She established the Parks and People Foundation and the SuperKids Camp. She was an early and ardent supporter of the Baltimore School for the Arts. The Baltimore Sun reported that she served on 57 boards of organizations and institutions large and small, and she was the chair of 19 of them. She was indefatigable, elegant, and selfless. There are many fine people who are doing a lot of great work on behalf of Baltimore. They are not deterred by the depth of the problems we face. But none, in my experience, have explored solutions to those problems with the zeal and imagination and grace of Sally Michel. In September, we lost one of our most effective and experienced advocates for education. For more than three decades, Mike Bowler was a journalist for the Baltimore Sun, and his coverage of education was exemplary. His erudition, his deep concern for the success of students and teachers, his insights and his thorough understanding of the nuances and complexities of what it means to teach and what it means to learn made his work an invaluable resource for citizens and policy makers alike. He also worked at the Department of Education, and he served as a member of the Baltimore County School Board. We’ve heard the phrase, “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” Well, if you respect those special people who have made an incalculable difference in classrooms throughout our state, tip your hat to Mike Bowler.Not long after Mike’s passing, we learned of the death of Rashad Ollison, who died of cancer at the age of 41. He was also a reporter for the Sun, who wrote for the major papers in Dallas, Philadelphia and Norfolk, VA, as well. His expertise was in music and pop culture, and he wrote knowingly and compellingly about the ways in which music can uplift, enlighten and engage. His memoir, ----Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues, ---- Coming of Age Through Vinyl,---- is a gem. And so was he.  When Suzanne Cohen passed away last month, lovers of the arts lost one of our community’s most respected and generous philanthropists. It was Sue’s support of the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2005 that allowed the BMA to offer free admission for many of its exhibitions. She was also a generous underwriter of this station, in particular, the program and podcast, Out of the Blocks, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick. The contributions that these wonderful people have made to our city comprise some of the greatest blessings Baltimore has ever received. May they rest in peace, and may we build on their invaluable legacies.-- Tom Hall

Here’s a Stoop Story from Out of the Blocks producer and artist Wendell Patrick-- also known as Kevin Gift--about meeting his musical inspiration, classical pianist Andru233u Watts.You can hear his story and many others at stoopstorytelling.com, as well as the Stoop podcast.Listen to the latest episode of Out of the Blocks.

TTBOOK (as it's known to its friends) started life as a radio show back in 1990 on Wisconsin Public Radio. 28 years later and it's still on the radio on nearly 200 different US stations, and of course now you can podcast it too! Husband and wife team Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson do most of the interviewing, with Anne taking the lead role as host. And the format's perhaps best described as 'variations on a theme'. Each episode takes a big idea and explores it with a range of different interviews. Recent topics have included the search for meaningful work, automation, and forgiveness. We play a couple of clips from a recent episode called 'Listening To The City': Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick produce a podcast called 'Out of the Blocks' in Baltimore, and there's an interesting chat about sound and prejudice (or the 'sonic colour line') with sound historian Jennifer Stoever. ('Listening To The City' from To The Best of Our Knowledge is hosted by Anne Strainchamps and the sound designer is Joe Hardtke).

Curious about how the original seed got planted for Out of the Blocks?  This week marks the ten-year anniversary of Aaron Henkin & Wendel Patrick’s audio bro-mance, and on this episode the two friends unearth archival audio from when they first crossed paths. They originally met in 2008, when Wendel was Aaron’s musical guest on WYPR’s old radio show, The Signal.  Aaron liked Wendel’s music, Wendel liked Aaron’s interviewing style, they hit it off, and the rest is history.  Plus:  Did you know that ‘Wendel Patrick’ isn’t Wendel Patrick’s real name?  Take a trip down memory lane with the guys and enjoy the back-story!

Wendel Patrick is the composer, producer and performer of the musical score for every episode of Out of the Blocks. In this special installment, he talks about some of his favorite compositions from the show and delves into how (and why) he makes the music. Wendel can span musical genres from classical to hip hop with compositions that take the listener on an emotional journey full of surprises:  A cell-phone ringtone symphony? Check. A hair-clipper fugue? Check.  This is a must-listen for aspiring music producers or anyone who wants to hear extended music cuts from Out of the Blocks.

Wendel Patrick is a Baltimore-based jazz and classical pianist, as well as a sought after hip-hop producer, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, and a sound documentarian. He's also the co-founder of the monthly Baltimore Boom-Bap Society and a co-creator of WYPR's award-winning ----Out of the Blocks---- podcast. The three songs that changed him range from seminal hip-hop, to a genre-challenging instrumental, to a soul stirring rendition of a Leonard Bernstein classic by one of the most important performers of the 20th century.

Here’s a Stoop Story from musician Wendel Patrick, co-producer of WYPR's Out of the Blocks, speaking about a photograph that inspired him. You can hear his story and many others at stoopstorytelling.com, as well as the Stoop podcast.

Out of the Blocks collaborated with the BSO for a special concert series called, “Baltimore Voices.” The concerts featured recordings of four Baltimore City teenagers sharing beautiful and honest stories about their lives. Wendel Patrick composed an original score for each story.  And The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed Wendel’s scores live, while the stories aired on the sound system in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.