Gary Muszynski
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
10/29/22
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Gary Muzsynski is a versatile percussionist and entrepreneur and this conversation delves into his experiences playing samba in Brazil, his discovery and exploration of the handpan, and some of his work as an educator in both community music projects and as an innovator using music in the corporate world. We also talked about his beautiful album "Roots and Wings - Medicine Music", which won the Gold Medal Best of Show in the 2021 Global Music Awards and features 25 master musicians from 8 countries. Gary plays several contrasting instruments in different styles during the episode, and timestamps are included below. Like every episode, this is available both as a video and podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and the transcript is also linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/gary-muszynski
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Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:31) Mbira music
(06:45) Gary’s mentors and training with Community Music: Babatunde Olatunji, David Darling
(09:21) Gary’s childhood and life-changing experience with music
(18:26) early career in St. Louis, going to Brazil and learning Samba
(24:10) Gary’s story about creatively getting a plane ticket to return to Brazil to perform in Carnaval
(28:36) Samba school experiences in Brazil
(38:44) demonstration of some samba rhythms on agogô and surdo
(46:02) Samba in the Midwest, community music making “Sambistas” band
(48:26) Handpan history, different types and demonstration
(01:09:57) about the “Roots and Wings, Medicine Music” album, Global Music Awards winner, Tito La Rosa, Yair Dalal, Varijashree Venugopal
(01:20:07) Gary’s executive and team coaching and how he pivoted to online during 2020
(01:23:14) Community music Babatunde Olatunji
(01:27:29) handpan improvisation
photo: Irene Young
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Linsey Pollak: Maker, Musician, Stories from his life!
October 22, 2022
•103m
Linsey Pollak is an Australian musician who is known worldwide as a passionate and creative advocate for community music. His life has been full of unusual opportunities to explore different styles of music, and his inventiveness has spurred him to create countless instruments from found objects. In this episode you’ll get to hear him play 4 different instruments in different improvisatory styles, and I’m sure that everyone will be inspired by stories from his life, describing some of his incredibly unusual, fun and beautiful collaborations and creations.
This is available both video and podcast :https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/linsey-pollak
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photo credit: Beat Lehmann
Timestamps:
(00:00 Intro)
(01:30) gaida music
(04:59) Rafting trip, discovering Macedonian bagpipes, first trip to Macedonia
(11:35) trip to Greece to study klarino with Stavros Vasthekis
(13:15) discovering the Macedonian community in Australia, establishing Kulcha
(17:36) Linsey’s start making instruments, London and Early Music scene
(23:14) busking in Europe, learning Macedonian dance,
Živko Firfov Group, Destan Destanovski
(31:48) importance of humour in his solo shows
(33:17) duduk design and music
(38:56) Linsey’s early musical education and projects
(41:27) developing live looping in the early 90s, his solo shows
(49:25) rubber glove bagpipe
(54:36) Linsey’s current project going out to record in the forest with ambient sounds (his album of this music is on Bandcamp), also the frog sounds album
(56:53) Dva with Tunji Beier and now Beier-Griffin-Pollak trio with Philip Griffin
(58:23) Humarimba community music project
(01:09:16) Paranormal Music Society Romano Crivici and Blair Greenberg, and QWERTY with Peter Rowe
(01:13:47) MIDI wind controller Dangerous Song project with demonstration using animal sounds
(01:33:26) Linsey’s drive to create instruments and connect people, his creative process
(01:37:20) Linsey’s decision to stop touring outside of Australia
(01:40:07) Linsey’s advice
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This is a re-release with improved audio. I was thrilled to have a fascinating chat with the inspiring and innovative multi-style violinist/vocalist, author, composer, producer and educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman. I first learned about her when I bought her book You Are Your Instrument, which was the first book written about how to overcome and prevent musicians’ overuse injuries. In this conversation we discuss her unique path through world music, some of the research she’s done for her book and radio programs, illuminating the history of slave fiddlers and the evolution of improvised string playing in the United States. She gives some wonderful advice about following your own path, and at the end, she plays two tunes in different styles.
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This episode in video form, along with the transcript, is here linked on my podcast website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/julie-lyonn-lieberman
JULIE’S BOOKS AND DVDs https://julielyonnmusic.ecwid.com
STRINGS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES Multi-Style Video Library https://www.stringswithoutboundaries.com/video-library.html
IMPROVISED VIOLIN Documentary https://vimeo.com/117067048
Julie Lyonn Lieberman String Archives https://julielyonn.com/string-archives/
D’Addario workshops with Julie: https://daddario.formstack.com/forms/...
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