Started in Chicago in January 2017, AudPod is a passion project featuring performers, composers, educators, and other members of the music community. After a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, AudPod restarted in 2023 with a broader scope to include people everywhere.
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Sage talks about writing and recording her new album Blood Cells, providing background on her personal experiences, certain Special Sound Moments in the album, and how she approaches lyrics vs. music.
The track included at the end of this episode is the title track from Blood Cells, which is available now on all major streaming platforms.
IG: @sagenizhoni
website: sagenizhoni.com
Noah and Nelson talk about improvising together, reflect on recent influences, and defend the virtues of the cassette tape.
The track included at the end of this episode is “Channel Resolution," from the duo's recent release.
Stream/purchase the album and check out tour dates at noahbarker.bandcamp.com, plus check out Nelson's website at nelsondevereauxmusic.com.
IG: @noisebody (Noah) and @nelsondevereaux (Nelson)
Carmen Abelson, Hannah Christiansen, and Isidora Nojkovic of the Chicago-based Varo String Quartet (which also includes Lena Vidulich) talk about their first season as a newly-formed quartet and their upcoming concert of music by Grazyna Bacewicz, whose compositional style shifted soon after she was severely injured in a car accident in 1954.
Get tickets here for Varo SQ's June 14 concert at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
DeCarlo Jackson and Rick Haneman of the Twin Cities-based indie jazz group HEYARLO talk about recent releases, their evolution as a group, and upcoming summer shows.
The single at the end of this episode is “Chanting & Gossip,” and is available on all major streaming platforms.
IG: @heyarlo_
The “founding contributor and champion of the Weirdo Industrial Complex,” Tim Kaiser makes, performs with, and records his own electronic musical instruments. He's based in Duluth, MN, but will be venturing to cities in New York, Ohio, Illinois, and elsewhere during his upcoming Music for Weirdos Tour. Visit his website for all tour dates!
IG: @timkaiserduluth
Nashville-based sound artist and improvising multi-instrumentalist Jayve Montgomery (also known as Abstract Black) talks about how deep listening has informed the sounds on his new tape, Breathing With Each Ear (Hour 3).
The piece included at the end of this episode is Montgomery's “Where There Is No Sun To Light The Way,” available now to stream and/or purchase at jayvemontgomery.bandcamp.com.
IG: @abstractblack
Amanda Beaune (violin), Zaira Castillo (piano), and Isidora Nojkovic (cello) of the recently-formed, Chicago-based Codex Trio discuss their upcoming September 12 program for New Music Chicago's Impromptu Fest.
Codex Trio's performance at Impromptu Fest takes place 6:00pm Tuesday, September 12, at Epiphany Center for the Arts.
The audio excerpt at the end of this episode is the first movement from Codex's springtime Constellation performance of Peter Kramer's piece “Three Gestures.”
Codex IG: @codextrio
New Music Chicago IG: @newmusicchicago
NMChicago Impromptu Fest website: newmusicchicago.org/impromptufest
Chicago-based quartet a Light Sleeper discuss their new album Equaeverpoise (out on Cuneiform Records), their writing process, and how improvisation informs that process.
The tune included at the end of this episode is “Trees and Flora,” from Equaeverpoise.
a Light Sleeper includes:
Maria Elena Hernandez - alto and tenor saxophones
Traci Huff - viola
Matthew Jung - drums, keyboard
Dheeru Pennepalli - guitar
Listen to/purchase Equaeverpoise at: cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com
Check out a Light Sleeper's other music at: alightsleeper.bandcamp.com
IG: @alightsleepermusic
Upcoming shows:
August 6 - The Hideout - 1354 West Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
August 15 - ChiCityLive Que4 Radio - www.youtube.com/@q4radio/
August 28 - The Brass Rail - 1121 Broadway - Fort Wayne, IN www.brassrailfw.com
August 29 - The Lodge - 231 6th Avenue - Dayton, KY www.thelodgeky.com
August 30 - The Government Center - 715 East Street - Pittsburgh, PA www.thegovernmentcenter.com
August 31 - The Crown - 1910 North Charles St - Baltimore, MD www.thecrownbaltimore.com
September 1 - Gallery 5 - 200 W Marshall St - Richmond, VA gallery5arts.org
September 3 - ProgDay - Chapel Hill, NC progday.net
Albuquerque-based shoegaze guitarist David Castillo (aka SOMNILOQUIST) talks about their songwriting process, their relationship to visual aesthetics, and their upcoming split release with fellow ABQ act ōverwhelm.
Song included in this episode is “Dead Willow”
SOMNILOQUIST IG: @somnillawafer
somniloquist.bandcamp.com
ōverwhelm IG: @overwhelmnm
overwhelmnm.bandcamp.com
The pod returns! We're restarting AudPod with the Minneapolis-based Anita Velveeta, whose new genre-elusive album Western Amphibians came out in March 2023.
Included song: “Put Me in My Place” (from Western Amphibians)
anitavelveeta.bandcamp.com
IG: @anita.velveeta