Bifurcating memory

Wiliam Halas - "untitled"

Shay Spitzer - "Imitation"

Christopher Gallagher - "Washing Cycle I-III"

The Black Garden Project: Prologue

Recorded at Blum Hall, Bard College, February 7 2024.

Alvin Lucier - "(Annandale) Memory Space"

Christian Wolff - "Stones"

Cornelius Cardew - "The Great Learning, Paragraph 4" (excerpt)

This is the third episode of FTW (For the Woman) Podcast. In this podcast, I talk to women leaders in tech and share their career paths, advice and lessons learned with you. 

In this episode, I interviewed Lydia White. Lydia leads design teams at Condé Nast, teaches at Parsons, and is also the founder and program director of Shell House Arts, an organization dedicated to supporting artists, designers, and writers through programs that help facilitate and deepen creative practices. 

We talked about her 6-month-long sabbatical around the world, her move across from the Bay Area to New York, starting her own art residency program, and the surprising problems of owning a house that shaped like a egg shell.

https://lydiawhite.info/
https://shellhousearts.org/

Lovely theme song by Annie Bacon: https://www.fiverr.com/theanniebacon

#3 Lydia White: Let Fear Guide You To Take the Bigger Steps

An 1852 railroad map of Contemporaneous member Finnegan Shanahan's native Hudson Valley sparks his imagination, and into his genre-defying debut album, he pours not only his own story but the story of growing up.

Written for Contemporaneous and featuring Shanahan singing and playing violin, guitar, and keyboard, The Two Halves is inspired by the composer’s experience of coming of age, particularly symbolized by the train that took him back and forth between the Hudson Valley home of his youth and his current home of New York City.

In this episode, we not only hear from Shanahan sharing his inspirations behind this remarkable work, but we hear from cartographer Aaron Reiss with a perspective on the map that sparked the composer’s imagination and from percussionist Matt Evans on playing drums in The Two Halves.

The Two Halves was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2016 and features Shanahan performing with Contemporaneous. You can find the whole thing on Bandcamp, iTunes, and Spotify.

Music in this episode

• Finnegan Shanahan: The Two Halves (2015) — Finnegan Shanahan & Contemporaneous
• Tiny Tim: White Christmas (1994)
• Finnegan Shanahan: In Your Land (2018) — Robby Bowen, Jeff Mertz, and Finnegan Shanahan
• Sacred Harp: Amazing Grace — recorded by Alan Lomax, 1959
• Finnegan Shanahan: 18 hours (2018) — Finnegan Shanahan
• Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister: from Planetarium (2012): Pluto
• Animal Collective: Fireworks (2007)
• Zammuto: Idiom Wind (2012)
• Sylvester: Body Strong (1979)

Bifurcating memory

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