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Soundwalker

Soundwalker

By: David Rothenberg
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 A series of talks on music, nature, sound, and the world around us hosted by musician and writer David Rothenberg© 2025 Soundwalker Music Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Joe Boyd: A Lifetime Seeking Unexpected Music

    Joe Boyd: A Lifetime Seeking Unexpected Music
    Oct 7 2025

    Seems like whenever musical history was made over the last sixty years, Joe Boyd was there. He produced Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, and introduced startling world music to Western audiences, including Trio Bulgarka, Ivo Papasov, and Toumani Diabate. The founder of Hannibal Records, He's even the guy who refused to unplug Bob Dylan when Pete Seeger complained at the Newport Folk Festival. So what does he think about what's happened to music today?
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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment

    Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment
    Nov 30 2024

    An hour and a half with the great improvising pianist Marilyn Crispell, winner of a 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Award. We learn how and when she began improvising, and how she has learned to combine energy and calm over the course of a long and ever-changing musical career. Photo by Andrew Pothecary.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?

    W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?
    Nov 2 2024

    A conversation with 86-year old musical master Allaudin Mathieu, who started out arranging for Duke Ellington and went on to become a great mentor and spiritual force, today making some of the best work of his career and continue to teach nonstop. Here we discuss his new memoir The Shrine Thief, what he is listening for, and how much theory and history a good musician needs to know.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
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