Lisa Pegher: Percussion Pioneer

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

07/06/24

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Lisa Pegher is a brilliant American percussion soloist and drummer. She is also a composer, improvisor and software engineer. She is known for pioneering percussion as a solo instrument within the orchestral realm and beyond, making it her life’s work to present percussion to larger audiences by commissioning, collaborating, and creating new works and performances that bring percussion to the front of the stage. We talked about her new concerto/show, "Circuits and Skins," written for her by Paul Dooley, which explores ways to meld orchestra with Electronic Dance Music, and also her project A.I.RE Artificial Iintelligence Rhythm Evolution. You’ll hear about her perspectives on self-care, social media, the value of mentors, and a fascinating variety of her performances during this episode. (the links to the video performances from the podcast are linked to the show notes on my website, where you'll also find the transcript and this episode on my YouTube:

https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/lisapegher

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The podcast theme music was commissioned from composer Nick Kold, and you can use the timestamps to navigate the episode.

Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:24)the story of Lisa’s first drum, breaking boundaries at a young age as a soloist, Schwantner concerto (13:34) vibraphone improvisation (16:48) love for the vibraphone (18:46) great teacher (22:29) yoga, getting in the zone (24:19) No Reply (27:24) love for marimba, the importance of a solid technique (30:13) dealing with burnout (31:38) Player of Games, AI, Fate Amenable to Change (34:40) A.I.RE Artificial Intelligence Rhythm Evolution show (38:03) demo using AI (39:31) thoughts about improvisation (43:34) new merch available! (44:28) intro to Matthew Rosenbloom’s Northern Flicker (47:03) excerpt from Northern Flicker by Matthew Rosenbloom (50:17) the challenges of notating percussion scores (52:43) the fun of found objects (55:40) Splice, the joy of coding (01:00:51) TROMP percussion competition experience and value of community (01:03:43) Paul Dooley Circuits and Skins, bringing EDM audiences into symphonic music (01:06:02) Imperfection project with SideFire trio free jazz (01:12:38) excerpt from Fire from Imperfection with the SideFire trio (01:13:44) taking risks (01:15:45) collaboration with Andrew Knox Imaginary Windows (01:22:45) Water Runs Up from Minimal Art: Imaginary Windows (01:25:35) overwhelm with social media and promotion (01:32:52) equity and inclusion in music

Previous Episode

Cliff Beach: You Showed Me the Way

June 29, 2024

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104m

Cliff Beach is an award-winning singer, songwriter, author of “Side Hustle and Flow”, podcast host, record label owner and also works fulltime as VP of digital and operations in the beauty industry. This episode focuses on his recent album and tribute to Ella Fitzgerald “You Showed Me the Way”, we also got into his funk hit “Confident” and the last part of the interview we talked about some of his valuable advice from his book. Most of the guests I speak with work in music full-time, but of course that always means having many skill sets, and a few musicians like Cliff have a day job and also work hard on their music which is central to their lives. Cliff didn’t write his book for musicians, but for anyone that wants inspiration and advice for making the best of their lives, and I found a lot of what he wrote about resonated with me. Take a look at the time-stamps below.

Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast, and I’ve also linked the transcript to my website : https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/cliff-beach

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(02:34) jazz album “You Showed Me the Way” tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

(07:11) “You Showed Me the Way”

(13:13) Cliff’s childhood singing in harmony in church

(15:50) teen years and Berklee

(17:11) networking in LA

(19:27) cruise ship gigs

(22:26) Mestizo Beat, “Confident”

(26:38) ”Confident”

(29:58) winning the John Lennon song-writing competition

(32:27) playlist curation and pitching your music

(37:12) book “Side Hustle and Flow”, setting goals, self-reflection, gratitude and building habits

(53:16) new merch to support the podcast!

(54:09) more advice and perspectives from “Side Hustle and Flow”

(01:00:02) Bill Withers

(01:04:57) about “The Gift of Blues”

(01:08:3) “The Gift of Blues”

(01:12:14) Toastmasters

(01:19:19) creating the audio book and Udemy course

(01:24:32) the many roles we play in life and business, financial advice

(01:30:54) cold calls, taking chances and pitching

(01:35:33) making it personal, family stories

(01:38:09) telling stories with different media, how music helped Cliff through challenges

Next Episode

Sarah Jeffery of Team Recorder

July 13, 2024

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74m

Sarah Jeffery is a wonderful and versatile recorder player based in the Netherlands, known worldwide for her outreach with her YouTube project Team Recorder, which at the time of this podcast release has well over 205,000 very engaged followers. She is the Recorder Professor specializing in Contemporary music at the Royal College in London, and we talked about her work teaching recorder technique, improvisation in different styles, her varied career including experimental theatre and her synesthesia which directly informs her work as a musician. There’s lots more to this wide-ranging episode, which features some fantastic recorder performances as well.

Transcript and Video link on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/sarah-jeffery-of-team-recorder

Sarah Jeffery website: https://sarahjeffery.com/

Bach Sarabande: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9paJfIegQ3Q

Constellations album https://team-recorder.myshopify.com/collections/audio

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