Imagination Radio investigates the ways we search for meaning through music and life, and why people are compelled to create. Produced by Contemporaneous and hosted by co-artistic directors David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly, this podcast explores the boundless imagination in every walk of life — from BASE-jumping to neuroscience, and cartography to music — in search of what drives each of us to venture into the unknown.
Imagination Radio
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Podcast Overview
Imagination Radio investigates the ways we search for meaning through music and life, and why people are compelled to create. Produced by Contemporaneous and hosted by co-artistic directors David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly, this podcast explores the boundless imagination in every walk of life — from BASE-jumping to neuroscience, and cartography to music — in search of what drives each of us to venture into the unknown.
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May 28, 2020
Bonus: excerpt from Finnegan Shanahan's The Two Halves
This bonus episode features two songs from the heart of The Two Halves, Finnegan Shanahan's lush and driving record: The Giant Sleeps and the title song 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. Imagination Radio Episode 3 takes a deep dive into the story and inspirations of The Two Halves, and even gives a cartographer’s perspective on the music. Check it out in the previous episode.
May 26, 2020
3: The permanence and impermanence of growing up — Finnegan Shanahan on "The Two Halves"
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)
December 21, 2018
Bonus: Katherine Balch's New Geometry
This bonus episode features a complete live performance of New Geometry, Katherine Balch’s captivating work for instrumental ensemble. This is the world premiere of the revised version of the piece, performed by Contemporaneous live at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York in April of 2017. Imagination Radio Episode 2 takes a deep dive into the story and inspirations of Balch’s piece, and even gives a physicist’s perspective on the music. Check it out in the previous episode.
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