What's All This Then?!
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Podcast Description
Weird Toronto
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ExplicitNo.30: What Do You Do For A Living? | -- | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNo.29: Cycling in Ford Nation | -- | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNo.28: Blood on Bloor: Michael Bryant, Privilege, and Murder | Examining the evidence of what actually happened between ex-Attorney General Michael Bryant and courier Al Sheppard. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.27: Ali Berkok/Arkana Music | An interview with Ali Berkok from Arkana Music. Learn more about Ali at http://www.arkana-music.com or visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment on this show or just to say hello. | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNo.26: Letters From The Pit | What's All This Then?! no.26: Letters From The Pit. Responses to letters about the last show. Outro = Dane Swan improv with the Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra. Visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment con the show or just to say hi. | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNo.25: Esprit d' Crap | Everything I hate about New Music in Toronto, with examples. Visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment on the show or just to say hi. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.24: Interview with MiMo | An interview with Samuel Morgenstein and Matt Miller from the percussion + computer duo Mimo / weekly concert highlights / Guitardrone is shocking. Visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment on the show or just to say hi. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.23: Day of the Pianists | Eve Egoyan + John Kameel Farah show reviews; the Guitar Drone saga continues; shout outs to a couple listeners; this week's show listings. Visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment on the show or just to say hi. | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.22: Bob Wiseman Part 2 | In this half of the interview I talk with bob about how some of the elements of musicianship he finds important have changed over his career and what's remained consistant; about the advantages of collaboration; music morphing into multimedia; music industry garbage; film and theatre; touring; and the music that he admires. Visit http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/wattcast to comment on the show or just to say hi. | 1/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.21: Bob Wiseman Part 1 | Interview with Bob Wiseman Part 1; Shows of the week: Jan 09 Free Lillana Obando @ Tranzac, Jan 10 The Piano Salon, Jan 11 Amir Amiri @ Somewhere There; interview with Jennifer Polk on Narratives Blog: http://historyjen.blogspot.com | 1/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.20: January 01 2010 | Excerpts from my musical Odyssey at the Tranzac on Dec.20: Joe Sorbara, Letter-Reading Girl, Miami Rice + a look at three upcoming shows. Happy New Year! | 1/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.19: December 18 2009 | An interview with Steve Ward: trombonist, composer, booker, music presenter, streaming music broadcaster. Check out his ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/steve-ward-creative-music-live | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.18: December 15 2009 | The Cthulu Haiku champion recites!; The PRO's Torture Memos CD release concert; New venue: The Painted Lady; Fred Spek's Camp Combo | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.17: December 09 2009 | Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble; Please give generously to The Somewhere There Audience Mural Fund Drive; Ronley Teper, Antlers and Anchors, and Nick Zubek; L.R.G. Reports; Torture Memos and Cephalopodae; Have you seen my guitar drone? Show to see this week: my band! The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra's CD Release this Friday (Dec. 11) at the Tranzac. Be there! | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.16: December 02 2009 | Review of Drumheller show. Guitar Drone falls down on the job, and then falls in love. Gigs of the week: Facing the Music @ UofT Art Center, University College (Thurs Dec 03 12:00); Leftover Daylight @ Somewhere There (Fri Dec 04 8:00). | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.15: November 24 2009 | The reintroduction of What's All This Then?! Guitar drone berates our host for abandoning the show. Some very deep philosophical and psychological concepts are discussed. Gigs of the week: Drumheller @ the Tranzac (Tuesday Nov.24) + AIMToronto's Interface with Gino Robair @ Somewhere There (Friday Nov.27 to Sunday Nov.29). | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.14: Ronley Teper | One of my absolute favourite Toronto performers! Ronley Teper discusses: her theatrical approach to performing music; working with a band-in-flux; and her new recording. Ronley will be having a CD release concert on Thursday, March 19th at the Tranzac - do come if you're in Toronto. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.13: Chris Warren | Reflections on fifteen years of performing and recording music. Chris Warren discusses how his music has developed from his earlier incarnation as a poet to his brilliant newly-released CD Day for Night. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.12: The Toy Piano Composers | A conversation with Monica Clorey and Chris Thornborrow, two artists involved in the up-and-coming Toy Piano Composers' Collective. The enthusiasm and determination of these young composers to build a new and exciting vehicle for presenting new music in a fun, unpretentious way leads your host on an intense emotional journey from the pit of ennui to a new appreciation for the creative spirit. The Toy Piano Composers will be presenting their second concert [featuring works for string quartet by Dan Brophy, Monica Clorey, Igor Correia, Elisha Denburg, Glenn James, Nancy Tam, Christopher Thornborrow, and Fiona Ryan] at Gallery 345 on Friday, February 13th. | 2/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.11: Friendly Rich | One of my favourite Toronto performers, Friendly Rich and the Lollipop people will be releasing a new CD this Thursday (August 21). I got together with Richard Marsella to talk about how this uniquely disturbing band got started, what they're up to now, and what the f**k he thinks he's doing. | 8/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.10: Zamfir + X-4 + Sun Ra | I've waited a month and a half for my much-anticipated interview with legendary pan flautist Gheorge Zamfir - but when the sinister alien robot X-4 and his sidekick Guitar Drone XPT101196.4 drop by the interview is ruined and the future of humanity lies in peril. With the Lonely Shepherd in their evil clutches, only Sun Ra stands between X-4 and his demented plan to obliterate sentient life throughout the Universe by assembling the greatest band ever known: The Cosmic Blues-Rock All Stars Big Band. | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.9: David Ogborn | Ogborn's 'Opera on the Rocks' was a surprise hit at this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. A darkly comic collaboration between one composer, four librettists, and four singers, this work strips away the conventional barriers between audience and performer, offering the possibility of engaging, daring, and artistically relevant chamber opera - without the pompous trappings usually associated with the genre. David Ogborn discusses how this project came about, its technical and personal demands, and how it articulates his social and artistic role as a composer. | 7/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.8: Scott Thomson | Scott Thomson discusses Somewhere There, the venue for creative music he opened recently: his reasons for starting the venue, who's playing there, and what the space has to offer to musicians and audience members exploring this facet of Toronto's music scene. | 6/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.7: Richard Underhill | A conversation with Richard Underhill, member of the iconic band the Shuffle Demons, legendary saxophonist, and Kensington community activist. Topics include: the sympathetic relationship between being culturally confrontational and having a great time; the psychological differences between the Cameron house and the Air Canada Centre; the positives and negatives to being vulnerable as a performer on stage; and how the Shuffle Demons went from being a street band to a big deal. Plus 900 saxophonists playing the theme song from Hockey Night in Canada in Dundas Square? And there’s a new ‘What The F--K Was That??’ quiz – Congrats to Lorne for winning the last episode’s quiz! | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.6: Duncan MacDonell | A wide-ranging conversation with Duncan MacDonell: Smoking pets, children-as-producers, Wallace Stevens, Greek Goddesses, Secret Japanese Girlfriends, the respective artistic values of psychological discomfort and bodily trauma, the positive result of setting Istvan Cantor loose in the Drake Hotel, and the Wavelength Series MacDonnell co-founded eight years ago. W.A.T.T.?! also introduces the fantastic 'What The F**K Was That?' name-that-weird-musician contest! | 5/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.5: Mike Smith | Featuring Mike Smith from the band Muskox. This session is a discussion of non-jazz instrumental music and how groups working in this exciting medium interact with Toronto's music scene. Mike talks about what he's trying to achieve musically with this ensemble and some of the problems associated with making quiet music in loud bars. Also: three weird things that have happened to Ben this week at three different shows. | 4/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.4: John Kameel Farah | My guest for session no.4 is John Kameel Farah, a concert pianist who's put his concert performances of Schoenberg, Stockhaussen, Chopin, and Bach on hold to invent his own music - a combination of live keyboards with electronic beats. Drawing on a massive range of idioms ranging from classical to jazz to electronica to middle eastern music while maintaining his own unique approach to music making, Farah presents a study of monastic artistry: in this world but not of this world. | 4/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.3: Scott Good | Composer-in-residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra | 4/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.2: Caitlin Smith | The Tiny Alligator Large Band girl. | 3/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No.1: Rob Piilonen | Flautist / Composer / Rob's Collision Ensemble / Toronto's Improv Scene / AIMToronto | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Awesome!
I love it! Very insightful and interesting exploration of the creative process. I also really like the letter-reading girl. I bet she's really hot.
More please!!
Incredibly informative, well thought out, engaging and honest. This goes a long way toward presenting listeners, no matter what sort of perspective they have of the scene, with real information about what's going on in Toronto. I am personally learning a great deal about musicians that I've only known as names thus far and also about musicians that I've had the pleasure of playing with many times. More please!!
Great Work
"What's All This Them?!" intelligently presents Toronto artists who are making interesting music. It focuses on those whose work falls outside of the mainstream and thus they are missed by most media coverage. Good, insightful queries by Mueller-Heaslip and the replies are craftily edited with examples of their work. We need more of this. Bravo! Nice to have you back, looking forward to the new format.
