Episodes

  • S2 Ep17: Paul McCarthy’s Life in Music

    S2 Ep17: Paul McCarthy’s Life in Music
    Dec 16 2022
    Paul McCarthy is a legendary performance artist, painter and filmmaker. He is less known for his work as a musician, though he has been active as an improvising sound artist since his days in music school. Today, he continues to play with his band, Extended Organ (formed with Mike Kelley) and to edit the sound in his films with the sensibility of noise and collage. In this episode, McCarthy describes his life in music, his early influences, and his mysterious interactions with a man who may have been the chess prodigy, Bobby Fischer.

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    Paul McCarthy, Whipping a Wall and a Window with Paint, 1974, performance, video, b/w photographs. © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; photo: Al Payne

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
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    34 mins
  • S2 Ep16: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Pop Music of the Future

    S2 Ep16: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Pop Music of the Future
    Nov 9 2022
    This episode is a conversation with the writer, Matt Marble on the composer Arthur Russell, who was active in the ‘70s and ‘80s music scene in New York. Marble’s book Buddhist Bubblegum is a study of Russell’s life and music, which spanned many styles and invoked esoteric practices such as Tantra and Shingon Buddhism. On the podcast, Marble discusses Russell’s philosophical perspectives on such divergent topics as non-dualism and disco music, and how Russell worked with his Buddhist teacher to create what he believed would be the pop music of the future.

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    Photo: Tom Lee; courtesy Audika Records

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
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    35 mins
  • S2 Ep15: Podcast: Joanne Robertson on Improvisation

    S2 Ep15: Podcast: Joanne Robertson on Improvisation
    Sep 30 2022
    This episode features the musician and painter, Joanne Robertson whose work is born from improvisation. She regularly collaborates with other artists, such as Dean Blunt and Sidsel Meineche Hansen, who plays a vacuum on Joanne’s most recent release. We discuss her ideas on music, art and life, all while she nurses her newborn baby.

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    Photo courtesy Bruna Amaral

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
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    23 mins
  • S2 Ep14: Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak: the Sound of Language

    S2 Ep14: Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak: the Sound of Language
    Aug 5 2022
    This episode features two multimedia artists, Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak, who both work with sculpture, music, language and ideas. Mobarak discusses her new work, Dafne Phono, an audio-based adaptation of the first known opera, translated into the most morphophonologically complex languages in the world. Gul presents an essay from her most recent book, an excerpt on the subject of somatic philosopher Moshé Feldenkrais, along with an exercise for listeners to try at home. 

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    Theodoor van Thulden, Apollo and Daphne, 1636-38. Public domain.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
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    46 mins
  • S2 Ep13: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Metal Opera

    S2 Ep13: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Metal Opera
    Jul 1 2022
    Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix is the leading creative force in the highly eclectic band, Liturgy. She also makes sculpture and has created her own philosophical system called Transcendental Qabala, which informs much of her work. In this episode, we discuss her opera, Origin of the Alimonies, which she considers a total work of art, involving film, spiritual gnosis, and a gender-affirming transition.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
    Image courtesy: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
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    36 mins
  • S2 Ep12: Mochu – Narrating Art, Deep Time and Freeports

    S2 Ep12: Mochu – Narrating Art, Deep Time and Freeports
    May 31 2022
    Mochu is an artist who creates narrative technofictions in his films, writings and lectures. In this episode, he presents an audio adaptation of his new book, Nervous Fossils: Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether, which discusses fossils, synthetic colour production, and time-traveling syndromes. The episode takes place in an art freeport and drifts between essay, fiction and mythology. It's a wild philosophical ride into deep time.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
    Image courtesy: Adityan Melekalam + Mochu
    Audioscape: Suvani Suri
    Sound Recording: Abhishek Mathur @ Quarter Note Studios
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    29 mins
  • S2 Ep11: Natasha Ginwala on the Sound of Riots

    S2 Ep11: Natasha Ginwala on the Sound of Riots
    May 5 2022
    For the last five years, curator Natasha Ginwala has been investigating riots, uprisings, and pogroms. As a part of this research, she’s curated an exhibition and edited the book ​​Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound, edited with Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri. For this podcast, Ginwala considers the sonic expression of riots through a collection of mixtapes and sound collages on social unrest. The episode features contributions by Arshia Haq (writer, filmmaker, DJ), Louis Henderson (artist, filmmaker), Josh Kun (author, music critic), and Atiyyah Khan (arts journalist, music writer, artist).

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini

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    Jitish Kallat, Anger at the Speed of Fright, 2010, Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future, 2018, ifa Gallery Berlin, courtesy: Victoria Tomaschko
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    59 mins
  • S2 Ep10: Jared Madere’s Guide to Making Music with AI

    S2 Ep10: Jared Madere’s Guide to Making Music with AI
    Apr 7 2022
    For the last few years, the artist Jared Madere has invented images and music using artificial intelligence. He jams AI systems with irrationality to arrive at pictures and songs that are both familiar and alien. In this episode, Madere discusses the ‘frozen operas’ he has been performing around the world and the idiosyncratic process he uses to collaborate with the non-human.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

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    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
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    28 mins