Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 391 - Eri Isomura (Part 2)

April 18, 2024 Pete Zambito

Minneapolis-based percussionist Eri Isomura returns to talk about how she recovered from overuse injuries physically and mentally after undergrad (02:05), her time as a grad student at the Boston Conservatory (MA), studying with great teachers, attending summer festivals, and why it’s so challenging to have a performance career in Boston (12:55), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions segment, including portions on being a woman in the field of percussion, Japanese food, great books, private Karaoke rooms, and Andy Warhol (34:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1975 film Nashville (01:11:00).

Eri Isomura Links:

Eri Isomura’s Website

10th Wave Collective

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Matt McClung in 2022

Keith Aleo in 2020

Other Links:

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

“Psappha” - Iannis Xenakis

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor - Johannes Brahms

“See Ya Thursday” - Steve Mackey

Snakes on a Plane trailer

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me - Bess Kalb

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Crazy Rich Asians trilogy - Kevin Kwan

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

“Don’t Stop Believin’” - Journey

Andy Warhol - “Art is what you can get away with”

Raves:

Nashville trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 390 - Eri Isomura (Part 1)

April 11, 2024 Pete Zambito

Minneapolis (MN)-based freelance percussionist and educator Eri Isomura stops by to discuss her freelancing work, 10th Wave Music, networking, and the amount of planning needed to put it all together (03:40), her responsibilities when she taught at St. Olaf (MN), changes in her life once she became a mom, and the “Three M’s of Freelancing” (22:30), more about 10th Wave Collective and her entrepreneurship training in Boston (33:25), growing up in Minneapolis, her father the cellist, and her extensive piano background (42:20), and discusses her time as an undergrad at St. Olaf, the development of one’s musical taste, and how to create great sound from percussion instruments (56:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 book Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library (01:15:00).

Eri Isomura Links:

Eri Isomura’s website

10th Wave Collective

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Matt McClung in 2022

Matthew Coley in 2021

Other Links:

American Composers Forum

New Music U.S.A.

Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 23 - W.A. Mozart

Ballade No. 1 - Frederic Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Rachmaninov

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

The Golden Girls TV theme song

Sonatas and Interludes - John Cage

American Songbook No. 1 - George Crumb

Raves:

Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library - Amanda Oliver

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 389 - Allen Otte (Part 2)

April 4, 2024 Pete Zambito

Allen Otte returns to talk about getting to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, taking over the percussion program, establishing the Percussion Group Cincinnati at the school, and building a program (01:40), the changing personnel of PGC, commissioning composers, performing with students, being the “institutional memory”, and his decision to retire (17:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion literature choices, “Otte-speak”, diversity issues, The Met Opera Online, English novels, sports in the 1960s, and Renaissance Choral Music (38:10).

Finishing with a Rave on Nick Tosches’ 2005 book on Arnold Rothstein (01:12:05).

Allen Otte Links:

Part 1 with Allen Otte

The Innocents

Percussion Group Cincinnati

Other Links:

“Third Construction” - John Cage

Mark Saya

Lou Harrison

Tár trailer

Eugene Onegin - Piotr Tchaikovsky

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy

Charles Dickens

The 1960s Green Bay Packers

Warren Spahn

Henry Aaron

Lift-Off - Russell Peck

“Ave Maria” - Josquin des Prez

“Sick cervus” - Giovanni da Palestrina

“Ave Maria” - Tomás Luis de Victoria

Raves:

King of the Jews - Nick Tosches

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 388 - Allen Otte (Part 1)

March 28, 2024 Pete Zambito

Retired Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Professor, co-founder of BlackEarth Percussion Group and the Percussion Group Cincinnati, and performing percussionist Allen Otte stops by to talk about his current work with an early music improvisational group and The Innocents Project with John Lane (03:50), growing up in Sheboygan, WI, playing in church and with polka bands, his beginnings in piano and percussion, and studying with Michael Rosen (32:20), attending Oberlin (OH) for undergrad and getting into improvisation and new chamber music (43:50), and his work with BlackEarth, “inhaling music” vs. building repertoire and programs, and eventually making his way to CCM (56:40).

Finishing with a Rave on Ireland, its people, and its parades (01:17:30).

Allen Otte Links:

Percussion Group Cincinnati’s PAS Hall of Fame page

The Innocents

Previous Podcast Guest Mentioned:

John Lane in 2023

Other Links:

Anthony Braxton

“The Fall of the Empire” - Frederick Rzewski

Herbert Brün

Garry Kvistad

“Guantanamera” - Pete Seeger

“If I Had A Hammer” - Peter, Paul, and Mary

“So What” - Miles Davis

“My Favorite Things” - John Coltrane

Michael Rosen

Richard Weiner

Cloyd Duff

George Hamilton Green

“Log Cabin Blues” - G.H. Green

The Polka Belt in the USA

“Zyklus” - Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Concertino for Marimba” - Paul Creston

George Szell

Pierre Boulez

“Oiseaux Exotiques” - Olivier Messiaen

The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky

“Third Construction” - John Cage

“Music for a Summer Evening” - George Crumb

Jan Williams

“Suite for Percussion” - Lou Harrison

“Inuksuit” - John Luther Adams

“Ionisation” - Edgard Varése

“Bolero” - Ravel

“Atmospheres” - György Ligeti

“String Quartet” - Witold Lutoslawski

String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Raves:

Marching Mizzou at St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2024

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 387 - Bill Sallak

March 14, 2024 Pete Zambito

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Music Professor Bill Sallak stops by to talk about his job and dual role as director of percussion and audio engineering, working previously at Kent State (OH), Akros Percussion Collective, and manufacturing his own percussion items (03:20), growing up near Buffalo (NY), his interests in science and math, and watching transcendent athletes and teams (29:05), attending SUNY-Fredonia for undergrad (48:40), his research into J.S. Bach’s music transcribed for marimba (56:25), attending the University of Akron (OH) for his master’s and accompanying for modern dance (01:06:30), his sabbatical year at Ohio University and his doctoral studies at Arizona State (01:20:45), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on flexibility in performance, making pasta sauce, Invisible Cities, great percussion music, and Barbara Kingsolver (01:35:50).

Finishing with a Rave on Marissa R. Moss’s 2022 book Her Country (01:57:50).

Bill Sallak Links:

Bill Sallak’s homepage

Bill Sallak’s UWGB page

Bill’s version of the JS Bach Cello Suites

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Aiyun Huang in 2023

Kay Stonefelt

Other Links:

Phoenix Studios

Center for Games and Interactive Media

“Mutatis Mutandis” - Herbert Brün, performed by Akros Percussion Collective

“Bird of Passage” - Karlheinz Stockhausen

Steven Schick

“Piano Concerto” - Györgi Ligeti

“Nothing is Real” - Alvin Lucier

Michael Rector

Larry Snider

Thomas Siwe

“Sextet” - Steve Reich

Domino Hasek Highlights

Pat LaFontaine Highlights

Golden State Warriors 2015-2016 Highlights

Liverpool FC wins 2020 Champions League

Jurgen Klopp

Mo Salah highlights

Bernard Woma

“Psappha” - Iannis Xenakis

“Zyklus” - Karlheinz Stockhausen

Jean Geoffroy

Leigh Howard Stevens

J.J. Quantz on Ornamentation

Wieland Kuijken

Merce Cunningham

Joan Meggitt

“The Anvil Chorus” - David Lang

Roger Braun

J.B. Smith

Mark Sunkett

Anner Bylsma - Bach Cello Suites

Paul Tortelier - Bach Cello Suites

Decasia trailer

Michael Gordon and the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

“Hold On I’m Comin’” - Sam and Dave Live

The NOW Pizzeria - Hamburgh, NY

“Top of the Hill” - Tom Waits

“Tom Traubert’s Blues” - Tom Waits

“A Valentine Out of Season” - John Cage

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Raves:

Her Country - Marissa R. Moss

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 386 - Arin Levy (Part 2)

March 7, 2024 Pete Zambito

Denver-based sound bath specialist and freelance percussionist Arin Levy returns to talk about getting their DMA from Alabama, falling out of interest in getting a teaching job, and their personalized dissertation (01:35), getting into sound baths, moving to Denver, and working for MakeMusic (19:25), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions segment, with segments on the 432 Hz Debate, their experience in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, terrible jobs, the extensive Star Wars universe, the Twilight movies, traveling internationally, and Everything Everywhere All At Once (27:15).

Finishing with a Rave with 2 films from the True/False Documentary Film Festival (01:07:10).

Arin Levy Links:

Part 1 with Arin Levy

Enso Sounds

Other Links:

Tim Feeney

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

Pauline Oliveros TedX Talk

“Bor——-H” - Anthony Braxton

The Bad Batch trailer

Twilight Saga - “Doesn’t He Own A Shirt?”

Tao Te Ching

The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff

Luigi’s Restaurant in Akron, OH

Robert McClure

Everything Everywhere All At Once trailer

Raves:

Daughters

This is Going to Be Big trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 385 - Arin Levy (Part 1)

February 29, 2024 Pete Zambito

Denver (CO)-based percussionist Arin Levy stops by to talk about Enso Sounds, gong selection, dealing with logistics, and the business of sound baths (03:15), growing up in Canton (OH), drum corps, playing trombone, and their involvement in theater (26:40), their undergrad years at Ohio University (36:55), going to Eastern Kentucky for master’s and teaching as a sabbatical replacement (47:00), and living in Indianapolis after the master’s degree, teaching high school drumlines, working with Jeff Queen, and freelancing (57:35).

Finishing with a Rave on the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra (01:03:10).

Arin Levy Links:

Enso Sounds

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Becca Laurito in 2023

Other Links:

Gongs Unlimited

Tim Feeney

Steven Schick

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Raves:

Maria Schneider’s Website

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 384 - Louis Raymond-Kolker

February 22, 2024 Pete Zambito

High Point University (NC) Professor of Percussion, Theory and Composition Louis Raymond-Kolker stops by to chat about HPU, North Carolina, and teaching at Appalachian State and Winston-Salem State (02:25), getting into composing and the art of teaching composition (26:05), growing up in Austin, TX and getting into all things percussion (37:40), his undergrad years at Texas A&M-Commerce and his time in drum corps (49:05), his masters years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (01:08:15), his gap year before heading to North Carolina, including his time as a USPS letter carrier (01:18:45), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions segment, including discussions of “The Percussion Canon”, Jhumpa Lahiri, Miyazaki movie scores, and “Dave the Diver” (01:26:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film The Zone of Interest (01:52:35).

Louis Raymond-Kolker Links:

Louis Raymond-Kolker’s website

Louis Raymond-Kolker’s High Point University website

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Danny Frye in 2018

Christopher Thompson in 2020

Other Links:

North Carolina Brass Band

Inside Out Steelband

Austin Percussion Collective

High Point University Community Orchestra

Partita for Eight Voices - Caroline Shaw

Discovering the Waterfront - Silverstein

“Remember, Marimba” - Errollyn Wallen

“Dream of the Cherry Blossoms” - Keiko Abe

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Guardians DBC

Great Plains International Marimba Competition

Hayao Miyazaki

Jhumpa Lahiri

DAVE THE DIVER

Raves:

The Zone of Interest trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 383 - Blair Helsing

February 15, 2024 Pete Zambito

Percussionist, Band Leader, and Podcaster Blair Helsing stops by to talk about his life and a percussionist, band leader and percussion enthusiast (02:30), his work with the PAS Diversity Alliance and his career in Information Technology (17:25), growing up in Chicago and California (26:40), moving to the Bay Area in college, playing in bands regularly, PAS, Digital Audio Workstations, and San Francisco during the 1990s and 2000s (32:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including sections on maintaining good posture while playing drumset, Edgar Wright movies, John Cage, Hal Blaine, Ringo Starr, the final Sex Pistols show, and Rick Beato’s YouTube page (54:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers (01:23:45).

Blair Helsing Links:

Blair Helsing’s LinkedIn page

Echo Beach Jazz Band

Previous podcast guests mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Heather Sloan in 2021

Dave Gerhart in 2018

Other Links:

PAS Diversity Alliance

Hurtado Brothers

M’Boom - Max Roach et. al.

Calypso - Harry Belafonte

Baby Driver trailer

The Wrecking Crew trailer

Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer

Muscle Shoals trailer

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me trailer

Hal Blaine

J.R. Robinson

Last Night in Soho trailer

The Drummer’s Path - Sule Greg Wilson

Where the Heart Beats - Kay Larson

“Wonderful Tonight” - Eric Clapton

“Go Where You Wanna Go” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

“Dedicated to the One I Love” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

The Sex Pistols’ Final U.S. Tour

The Sex Pistols’ Final Concert - Winterland

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Rick Beato interviews Keith Jarrett

Rick Beato interviews Pat Metheny

Rick Beato interviews Sting

Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges

Raves:

The Sparks Brothers trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 382 - Olivia Kieffer (Part 2)

February 8, 2024 Pete Zambito

Grand Valley State University (MI) Visiting Professor of Music Theory, Composer, Educator and Percussionist Olivia Kieffer returns to talk about heading to Georgia State for her percussion masters degree, working with Chix with Stix, and teaching and freelancing in the Atlanta area (02:45), making the decision to pursue grad degrees in composition and heading to UW-Milwaukee for her masters (18:25), doing her doctorate at the University of Miami (FL) and demonstrating all of the toy pianos in her studio for the podcast (23:00), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on preparing students for the future, navigating the percussion and composition world as a woman, great movies, The Green Bay Packers, stories from doing karaoke, and the TV series Planet Earth 3 (40:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Somewhere in Queens (01:12:40).

Olivia Kieffer Links:

Part 1 with Olivia Kieffer

Olivia Kieffer’s GVSU page

Olivia Kieffer’s homepage

Toy Piano Chamber Music Database

“Nobility of the Homophones” - Olivia Kieffer

“The Texture of Activity” - Olivia Kieffer

“Playing the Changes” - Olivia Kieffer

Other Links:

Stewart Gerber

Jim Culley

Allen Otte

Chix with Stix Percussion Group

Reinhardt Contemporary Arts Festival

A Little Bit Culty podcast

Johanna Beyer

Maestro trailer

Mission Impossible 2 trailer

End of Mahler 2 conductors

Dune - Frank Herbert

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

“Time After Time” - Cyndi Lauper

“Moon River” - Andy Williams

“Bullet the Blue Sky” - U2

Planet Earth 3 trailer

Raves:

Somewhere in Queens trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 381 - Olivia Kieffer (Part 1)

February 1, 2024 Pete Zambito

Grand Valley State University (MI) Professor of Music Theory Olivia Kieffer stops by to talk about her job responsibilities at GVSU and some of her past experiences that led her to that particular place (04:10), her work on the PAS Diversity Alliance and the 2023 PASIC panel she moderated (21:20), growing up in Wisconsin, getting involved in percussion, her church background and her sports past (37:00), and talks about her time as an undergrad at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (OH) (53:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film American Fiction (01:02:20).

Olivia Kieffer links:

Olivia’s GVSU page

Olivia’s homepage

Previous Podcast Guests Mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Reynaliz Herrera in 2023

Joshua Simonds in 2017

Alexandros Fragiskatos in 2019

Other Links:

Greg Secor

Ben Toth

Percussion Group Cincinnati

Kalani Das

Scott Farkas

Michael Burritt

Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra

“Ionisation” - Edgard Varése

Jim Culley

“Canticle No. 1” - Lou Harrison

“First Construction” - John Cage

Emerson String Quartet

Rusty Burge

Raves:

American Fiction trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 380 - Pablo Rieppi (Part 2)

January 25, 2024 Pete Zambito

Percussionist, Educator, Freelancer, and Composer/Arranger Pablo Rieppi returns in Part 2 to discuss growing up in Northern Virginia (after being born in Uruguay), getting into percussion, improvising in classical music and jazz, and getting better at focused listening (01:40), going to George Mason University (VA) for undergrad (22:30), attending Juilliard for his masters and moving to New York City (31:45), and closes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on cooking, sports fandoms, great books and movies, a crazy ballet story, and seeing Modern Art in person (36:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Fallen Leaves (01:14:50).

Pablo Rieppi Links:

Part 1 with Pablo Rieppi

Pablo Rieppi’s website

NYC Ballet Orchestra

Pablo’s Method Books

Rhythmic Roots - Pablo Rieppi

Other Links:

Washington Football’s “Hogs” Offensive line

1986 NY Mets

The Godfather trailer

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Marcía Márquez

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger

The Once and Future King - TH White

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Borders Bookstore

Pan’s Labyrinth trailer

Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson

Museum of Modern Art - NYC

Unsuk Chin

Raves:

Fallen Leaves trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 379 - Pablo Rieppi (Part 1)

January 18, 2024 Pete Zambito

Percussionist, Educator, and Composer/Arranger Pablo Rieppi stops by to talk about his roles with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, subbing with the New York Philharmonic, Percussion on the Sound (P.O.T.S.), The Nutcracker, and playing the same repertoire over and over (03:00), the teaching portion of his career and pivoting to take younger percussion students (29:00), and composing/arranging for percussion, including recycling popular method books for new purposes (38:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1976 autobiography Coal Miner’s Daughter (55:30).

Pablo Rieppi Links:

Pablo Rieppi’s homepage

New York City Ballet Orchestra

Pablo’s Method Books

Rhythmic Roots - Pablo Rieppi

Previous Podcast Guest mentioned:

Joshua Vonderheide in 2023

Other Links:

New York Philharmonic

The Percussion Conservatory

George Balanchine

The Firebird ballet - Igor Stravinsky

Appalachian Spring ballet - Aaron Copland

Symphony No. 3 - Piotr Tchaikovsky

Music from Suite No. 3 - Piotr Tchaikovsky

Christopher Lamb

Joe Pereira

14 Modern Contest Solos - John S. Pratt

Stick Control - George Stone

Syncopation - Ted Reed

Instruction Course for Xylophone - George H. Green

The New Breed - Gary Chester

Samuel Z. Solomon

Raves:

Coal Miner’s Daughter - Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 378 - Cory Hills

January 11, 2024 Pete Zambito

Owner and Creator of SplatBoomBang! Percussive Storytelling and Los Angeles-based Freelancing Percussionist Cory Hills stops by to discuss his PASIC 2023 presentation and getting into Percussive Storytelling (02:00), living in Los Angeles, Freelancing, and making Percussive Storytelling a business (22:00), his experiences with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and getting to meet William Kraft (40:40), growing up in northern Virginia (46:00), doing his undergrad at Northwestern (IL), studying with Michael Burritt, and the community he cultivates in his studios (51:10), living in Australia and studying with Vanessa Tomlinson (56:10), his fellowship in Italy and doing his doctorate at the University of Kansas (01:06:16), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion composer pieces, Beat Generation authors, and that party when he “performed on Christmas tree” (01:15:10).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Poor Things (01:37:25).

Cory Hills Links:

Cory Hills’s Homepage

Cory Hills’s YouTube page

“The Lost Bicycle” - Cory Hills

Previous Podcast guest mentioned:

Aiyun Huang in 2023

Other Links:

Fred Rogers’ Institute

Michael Burritt

Third Coast Percussion

Vanessa Tomlinson

Steven Schick

Fabrica Institute

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Derek Tywoniuk

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet

L’Histoire du Soldat - Igor Stravinsky

“?Corporel” - Vinko Globokar

Stuart Saunders Smith

“To The Earth” - Frederic Rzewski

“And Now For the News” - Graeme Leak

William Barton

Ji Hye Jung

Carl Czerny piano exercises

Charles Hanon piano exercises

Aladdin trailer

The Fast and the Furious trailer

Tao Te Ching - Laozi

Ursula K. LeGuin

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Howl - Allen Ginsberg

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Five Guys restaurant

J. Paul Getty Art Museum

Raves:

Poor Things trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 377 - Gifford Howarth

January 4, 2024 Pete Zambito

Bloomsburg University (Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania) Percussion Professor and Band Director Gifford Howarth stops by to talk about the PASIC 2023 Keyboard Committee Panel he moderated on Front Ensemble Rehearsal Engagement (05:35), his percussion activities at Bloomsburg, his adjudication responsibilities and being an artist/clinician (25:10), getting his college job and how his job at Bloomsburg has changed over the years (40:00), the clinic work he's done in Asia over 2 decades (55:40), growing up in upstate New York, his marching and lessons background, and his choir singing, solo singing, and background in musicals (01:08:30), his undergrad at Ithaca College (NY) and studying with Gordon Stout (01:22:00), his master’s degree from Kent State (OH), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including segments on skill development through sight reading, his active cooking life, Stephen King and The Dark Tower Series, the musical Hamilton, and being moved by performances he’s judged (01:40:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 docuseries Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning (02:15:45).

Gifford Howarth links:

Gifford’s Bloomsburg page

Gifford’s Yamaha page

Gifford’s Vic Firth page

“Leyenda” - Isaac Albéniz/Gifford Howard arrangement

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Lauren Teel in 2017

Julie Davila in 2019

Tom Burritt in 2021

Thom Hasenpflug in 2019

Other Links:

Yamaha Sounds of Summer

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“The Whole Toy Laid Down” - David Hollinden

“Marimba Quartet” - Daniel Levitan

“Bluebird Samba” - Ted Rounds

Selected Duets for Flute - H. Voxman

Arban’s Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet

The Dark Tower - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

James Patterson

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry

Hamilton

Raves:

Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 376 - Reynaliz Herrera

December 21, 2023 Pete Zambito

Percussionist, Composer, Educator, and Creator and Lead Performer of Ideas Not Theories Reynaliz Herrera stops by to talk about her recent PASIC 2023 panel appearance with the PAS Diversity Alliance on Neurodivergent Percussionists (03:10), Ideas Not Theories, writing music for bicycle, and how she works theatrically and musically with her group (12:25), growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, having an artistic family, getting into percussion, and her sports background (38:50), her undergrad years at the University of Ottawa (CA) (52:15), moving back to Mexico, then going to Boston Conservatory for her master’s (01:03:40), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including great and terrible movies, great TV shows, the Monterrey soccer scene, and the benefits and great music she got to hear while campaigning for a Grammy nomination (01:13:10).

Finishing with Raves on the 2023 documentary Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby and her interview with Marc Maron on WTF (01:42:30).

Reynaliz Herrera links:

Ideas Not Theories

Currents New Media

Ideas music videos

Previous Podcast Guest mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Other Links:

“Prim” - Asked Masson

“Inspirations Diabolique” - Rick Tagawa

“Time for Marimba” - Minor Miki

Peter Sadlo

The Room trailer

Life is Beautiful trailer

Happy Go Lucky trailer

Shutter Island trailer

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

Raves:

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields trailer

WTF with Marc Maron - Brooke Shields

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 375 - Karen Yu

December 14, 2023 Pete Zambito

Sound Art Curator, Co-Founder of the Upstrike Project, and Freelancing Percussionist Karen Yu stops by to talk about her PASIC 2023 performance in the New Music Research Sessions and the piece’s relationship to Hong Kong today (03:10), her work as a Freelancing Percussionist in Hong Kong with the HK New Music Ensemble and the UpStrike Project (16:00), her career as a Sound Art Curator, how she supports artists in these spaces, the concept of “new music” and the challenges of promoting it (26:20), growing up in Hong Kong and getting into music (47:40), moving to Canada to finish high school, getting used to a new education system, and the nature of being multilingual (54:00), getting her undergrad and masters at McGill University (CA) (01:09:10), moving back to Hong Kong and starting her life back there (01:25:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of creativity, her experiences as an Asian woman in percussion, Taiwanese poetry, translating between multiple languages, the competitiveness of Karaoke in Hong Kong, and great visual art (01:32:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Renaissance – a Film by Beyoncé (01:59:45).

Karen Yu’s Links:

Karen Yu’s website

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Matthew Lau in 2021

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones in 2022

Aiyun Huang in 2023

Jeff Moore in 2023

Other Links:

Handover of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Arts Development Council

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

“Rebonds A+B” - Iannis Xenakis

Fabrice Marandola

“Aphasia” - Mark Applebaum

“?Corporel” - Vinko Globokar

Don’t F%$8 With Cats trailer

Raves:

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 374 - Shawn Mativetsky

December 7, 2023 Pete Zambito

Percussionist, Tabla Player, Freelancer, Author, and College Professor Shawn Mativetsky stops by to talk about his recent PASIC 2023 presentation on playing tabla with effects pedals (03:10), his percussion activities and responsibilities in Montreal and at McGill University (CA), teaching tabla ensemble, his book Rudimentaal , and his regular ensemble work (18:35), growing up in Montreal and his musical background (36:35), his years as a student at McGill, his first interactions with tabla, the physical and practical issues of playing the instrument, and learning how to be a student learning tabla from a master (43:30), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with discussions of the tabla in western performance practice, continuing the tradition of the instrument, great movies, and important albums (01:12:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film The Holdovers (01:39:00).

Shawn Mativetsky links:

Shawn Mativetsky’s website

Shawn Mativetsky’s McGill page

Shawn Mativetsky’s Vic Firth page

Rudimentaal

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Todd Meehan in 2017

Justin Alexander in 2020

Neeraj Mehta in 2018

Dan Piccolo in 2020

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 373 - I-Jen Fang

November 30, 2023 Pete Zambito

University of Virginia Associate Professor of Percussion and Principal Timpanist and Percussionist for the Charlottesville Symphony I-Jen Fang stops by [after Pete learns how to say her name at (03:00)] to discuss her recent PASIC 2023 performance for the New Music Research day with Greg Beyer (04:00), her percussion responsibilities at UVA and Charlottesville, the marching band at UVA, and the challenges of recruiting there (12:50), growing up in Taiwan, having artistic parents (who are not in the music field), getting started in piano, and the culture of music there (41:10), studying at Carnegie Mellon University (PA) for undergrad with Tim Adams and performing on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (53:40), living in Chicago and studying with Michael Burritt for her masters at Northwestern (IL) (01:10:00), doing the doctorate at University of North Texas and her research into the 1986 Marimba Commissions (01:18:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with sections on developing well-rounded percussionists, being an Asian woman in the percussion world, her love and skill at cooking, Anime series, and performing the music of Christopher Deane (01:29:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the movies of Bruce Lee (01:59:00).

I-Jen Fang Links:

I-Jen’s UVA page

I-Jen’s Innovative Percussion page

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Mark Ford in 2023

John Lane in 2023

Eric Willie in 2022

William Moersch in 2019

Jason Baker in 2020

Other Links:

Greg Beyer

Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival

Michael Burritt

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Shenandoah National Forest

Tim Adams

“Wind in the Bamboo Grove” - Keiko Abe

Ju Percussion Group

She-e Wu

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

Top Gun: Maverick trailer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

Hunter x Hunter Set 1 trailer

Hot Tub Time Machine trailer

UVA Men’s Basketball 2018 and 2019

2017 Charlottesville Protests

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

“The Bones of Chung Tzu” - Christopher Deane

Raves:

Fist of Fury - dojo fight

The Way of the Dragon - fight with Chuck Norris

Enter the Dragon - fight vs. O’Hara

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 372 - Tim Feerst (2023)

November 23, 2023 Pete Zambito

University of Northern Colorado Percussion Professor Tim Feerst returns to discuss his recent PASIC 2023 clinic on Multi-Percussion FUNdamentals (03:20), his new job at UNC, the playing opportunities in the Denver area, and the change of scenery from Texas (18:30), and a shorter version of the Random Ass Questions, including segments on rewatching great TV shows, his beloved Washington Commanders, new video games, and Classic Christmas movies (39:40).

Finishing with a Rave about the Southeast Missouri University Percussion Studio during Pete’s recent appearance there (01:12:50).

Tim Feerst Links:

Tim’s appearance on the podcast in 2021 - Part 1 and Part 2

Tim’s website

Tim’s UNC page

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Todd Meehan’s appearance in 2017

Andy Bliss’ appearance in 2023

Other Links:

Saul Goodman

Ideo-Kinetics - Gordon Stout

“Bone Alphabet” - Brian Ferneyhough