I wouldn’t have been able to make Classically (Un)Trained without 3 years of playing around with a more experimental podcast called Artists on the Verge.
This podcast explored several formats. Below is the archive and brief description of each of them.
Artist Portraits
Artists on the Verge started with the idea of doing interviews with artists who had found a unique way of existing as artists (“artist portraits”). I ended up doing 25 of them over the course of some 3 years.
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Ep. 1: Omar Shahryar (composer, facilitator, peace maker) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 2: Julia Mintzer (mezzo-soprano, director) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 3: Miriam Gordon-Stewart (soprano, director, opera frontierswoman)| Artists on the Verge
Ep. 4: Malena Dayen (singer, opera director) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 5: Jason Cady (composer, librettist, co-founder of Experiments in Opera)| Artists on the Verge
Ep. 6: Reginald Edmund (playwright, founder of Black Lives Black Words)| Artists on the Verge
Ep. 7: Cassandra Kaszor (millennial musician) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 8: Olivia Fuchs (theater director, environmental activist) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 9: Christoph Ogiermann (improvisor, composer, founder of Klank) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 10: Kate Gale (writer, founder of Red Hen Press)| Artists on the Verge
Ep. 11: Jim Osman (theater director, sci-fi enthusiast) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 12: HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Mike Miller (organist, singer, pastor) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 13: Miro Tóth (composer, improvisor, saxophonist) | Artists on the Verge
Ep. 14: Elena Floris (Odin Teatret violinist, actress, music director) | Artists on the Verge
Ep.15: Richard Katrovas ("ex-poet," my father) | Artists on the Verge
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An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Towards the end of my Artists on the Verge era, I created a segment called An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar, in which I chatted with comedian Nicholas Anthony about the arts framed by a “high/low art divide.” I was hoping to bring a more mainstream audience in – but in the end I think we didn’t quite fit in to the “opera singer” and “comedian” stereotypes enough to find that audience.
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Ep. 1: High/Low Arts Education | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 2: The True Hollywood Experience | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 3: Arguing About The Death of the Artist | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 4: Controversial Subjects + Death of the Artist | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 5: The Wild West of Technology | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 6: A Comedian Goes to High Art World | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 7: The Beatles and the Avant-Garde | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 8: High Art About Poor Artists (ft. The Met Opera) | Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar
Ep. 9: What is it like to Sleep No More? (candid review of immersive theatre)
Ep. 10: How Camp Explains Taste (ft. a FINAL review of THE SUDBURY DEVIL)
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Solo Episodes
There were also episodes in which I read academic texts relating to artists and reacted to them or read my own reviews. I called these episodes “snippets” because I felt I was doing some kind of cultural journalism and that what I was offering were “clippings” which one could add to one’s understanding of the big picture. Below is a selection of these.
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We need a more BORING definition of "artist" (ft. my Medium article) | Artists on the Verge
I Read a G20 Report on the Arts Economy So You Won't Have To | Artists on the Verge
Reading “The Arts After Darwin" by Ellen Dissanayake Pt. 2 | Artists on the Verge
Reading “The Arts After Darwin" by Ellen Dissanayake | Artists on the Verge
Summary + Reaction to "Another Artworld" by Nika Dubrovsky & David Graeber | Artists on the Verge
Debating Myself About the Internet (ft. my Medium article)
Communication vs. Experimentation (ft. Theorema Review) | Artists on the Verge
Can contemporary art / theater / music still be original? | Snippet No. 4 | Artists on the Verge