In Your Ear Videos

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Kristopher Young of Another  Sky talking about the exciting new model of pay what you can for works of fine modern  literature.  Also another In Your Ear, reviewing Sundown Lounge, the podzine. No homegrown music this week, just some more blatantly ripped off semi-commercial stuff. Kristopher Young was born in 1974 with roots in Philadelphia and New York City. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004 to focus on his writing. His background is diverse; he’s vegan, is trained in branding and scarification, put himself through school designing databases and has a Master’s Degree in Media Ecology (the impact of mass communication on society) from New York University. Kristopher founded Another Sky Press in 2005 and continues to play a significant role as chief editor. Click was his debut novel.

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Kristopher Young of Another  Sky talking about the exciting new model of pay what you can for works of fine modern  literature.  Also another In Your Ear, reviewing Sundown Lounge, the podzine. No homegrown music this week, just some more blatantly ripped off semi-commercial stuff. Kristopher Young was born in 1974 with roots in Philadelphia and New York City. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004 to focus on his writing. His background is diverse; he’s vegan, is trained in branding and scarification, put himself through school designing databases and has a Master’s Degree in Media Ecology (the impact of mass communication on society) from New York University. Kristopher founded Another Sky Press in 2005 and continues to play a significant role as chief editor. Click was his debut novel.

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind. All music provided by Veil of Thorns Songs, in order: And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream Intellectual Institutional Object Thought Pollution Evolution In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, a terrifying immersive Halloween experience, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London s largest abattoirs. The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story The Forest . The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir. http://www.apocryphon.org/

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Eric Young of HipGnosis, talking about life as an independent musician and more. Also, an episode of In Your Ear, Reviewing The Leviathan Chronicles - an Audio Adventure (http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml or http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/ for high bandwidth - lots of animation, etc. Includes cast of characters, episode summaries, blog and all that kind of stuff). Also, a blurb from FoolishPeople about The Abattoir Pages. Music in this episode provided by HipGnosis : Glitch 303 Rendered, Underground Loom High to Fly, DOC Links: http://glitch.fm http://thereisnotwo.tk http://hipgnosis.us Coming up next week: A special GSpot edition, talking to the organizers of Esozone! (more ) Download The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young

Joseph Matheny interviews Danielle Hatfield (yes, one of THOSE Hatfields!) about Twitter, the Internet and life in general. A good casual conversation, not too stuffy or formal at all, just the way we like it, with a side of Louisiana hot sauce! Also another episode of In Your Ear-New Yorker Magazine archived short stories read aloud and discussed by current contributors. Danielle in here own words: http://daniellehatfield.com/about.html Also see: http://daniellehatfield.com/ & http://twitter.com/Dhatfield Download The GSpot: Danielle Hatfield

Joseph Matheny interviews Sam Hain of Flower of Kairos  about on-line fiction, Anarchy and life in general. Also another episode of In Your Ear-  Discussing the Geek Survival Guide - home of survival tips you will probably never need.  http://gsguide.blogspot.com/ ====== Samm says about himself: I am a writer for the The Foolish People Website I am a sometime contributer to Key64 I have been published in the now defunct Konton a chaos magick magazine published by the als now defunct chaosmagic.com Most of my writings were also included in the Best Of Konton anthology they put out as well. I was published in the Magick On The Edge anthology. I am the co-creator of the sadly neglected chaoscurrent.com You can also find me : on live journal Y!M or AlM: Kinghain23 Download The GSpot: Samm Hain Share This

Joseph Matheny interviews another Joe , AKA Bazooka Joe, from Solipsistic Nation and formerly of the smallWorld. They talk about music, podcasting and get into a weird Joe to Joe cross interview feedback loop. Also, another episode of In Your Ear, this week reviewing Variant Frequencies a podcast of (mostly) short fiction in the horror/subgenre sci-fi vein. From Puske: I pay special attention to the podcast novel which they debuted - The Failed Cities Monologues http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/) - link is to the podiobooks version. Joe s bio info: My dad was a singer and guitarist in a cover band in Mexico City. They were called Los Checkmates and they put out a record or two and I think they may even of had a television appearance. My dad always had a hunger for music and he had put together a pretty eclectic record collection. It was the soundtrack of my childhood: classics like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and new oddball stuff like The Firesign Theater, Segovia, Gilbert O Sullivan and Kraftwerk. It was my dad s record collection and his love for music that led to me collecting a lot of music and eventually becoming a DJ. In my teens I lived in South Bend, Indiana and while i was still listening to stuff like The Doors and Black Sabbath I was also listening to what was being blasted over the airwaves and over the television in the form of MTV. That meant stuff like Culture Club, Dexy s Midnight Runners, etc. I was starting to hate rock and roll. There had to be more than the same ol same ol . Fortunately a girl that I dated showed me the way with a mix tape she made me. It had stuff like King Crimson, The Buzzcocks and The Cure. That doesn t sound like such a big deal but at the time it blew my 16 year-old mind. It was still pop rock but done in such unique and surprising ways that I could understand why it was being broadcast in my hick town of Indiana but still made me wonder why such great stuff wasn t on the radio! When I was 18 I moved to Boston and was digging deeper and deeper into all this new music I was discovering. And then I totally fell for the who punk/hardcore thing. For a brief time I was into the purity of punk and it s DIY ethic. I still treasure that about punk but the conformity of punk drove me crazy. The uniformity, the attitudes, the slang, etc. Also, I was tired of getting shit for admitting that I liked Wire s electronica related album or The Coctau Twins. Around this time I got a gig at WMFO, a college/community radio station. The format was freeform and the station attracted a lot of serious music nerds who totally geeked out on the subgenres of music they were into. My time at WMFO was spent talking with DJs about everything from contemporary classical music to the latest Pailhead release. Techno was huge and at one station meeting the hosts of an industrial show suggested doing a techno show. I was at the end of punk phase but I still scoffed that techno was just a fad and would fade into obscurity. Little did I know that a year later I would totally embrace electronic music. Oh, and I ve always loved disco, it just wasn t cool to admit that as a punk. In 2000 I moved to San Diego. I had quit radio for good. Or so I thought. Eventually that craving to spin over the air got me looking for a radio station to call home. That home turned out to be a pirate radio station (Free radio San Diego) and an activist hippy/punk station (RadioActive san Diego). I still tried to do a freeform show but I eneded up playing a lot of electronic music. I decided to to do an all electronic music show called Solipsistic Nation so I could still have my electronic music fix and still do a freeform show. Later on I had to give up both stations due to time constraints but did launch my interview show, Small World. A year or so later I relaunched Solipsistic Nation as a podcast. After nearly 500 editions of Small World I closed it s doors and now focus on Solipsistc Nation. Solipsistic Nation is a weekly hour long show where I play the best of all genres of electronic music. Once a month I showcase a record label and feature a recording of a live electronic performance. I ve also had various guest DJs that have come on the show, featured retrospective mixes from select artists and done a handful of documentaries of subgenres of electronic music. I kind of think of Solipsistic Nation being what NPR might have done if they had decided to do a show focusing on electronic music. Download GSpot: Solipsistic Nation Share This

Joseph Matheny takes a break from interviewing this week to play a recording from the 2009 LAFF: Architect Thom Mayne talking about film along with another episode of In Your Ear. Also, introducing our first podcast sponsor: Tunecore. ======== Pritzger prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the renowned architectural firm Morphosis, comes to the Festival to share his passion for space, light, and cinema. Download The GSpot: Thom Mayne Share This

Joseph Matheny discussed the state of independent film and ponders some solutions to the Internet dilemma with his friend and partner, Michael Mailer. Also, a new episode of In Your Ear with Psuke. Michael Mailer (born 1964) is a film producer and the oldest son of writer Norman Mailer. He has produced over 17 films. He has one sister Kate and two brothers Matthew and Stephen an actor. He is the co-founder of Bigel/Mailer films. He is married to Sasha Lazard and they have one son Cyrus. (wikipedia) IMDB MMF Download The GSpot: Michael Mailer Share This