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Pioneer Works builds community through the arts & sciences to create an open and curious world.
“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ben-ratliff-run-the-song-joshua-jelly-schapiro
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“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ben-ratliff-run-the-song-joshua-jelly-schapiro
4 days ago
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As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.”
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Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise.
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Ende Tymes - YouTube
Founded in the wake of Fukushima, the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation contemplates the harsh, distorted quality of our age with pioneers of...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvmJDPA9HVrezqTIgv9NETZQ2nFTa5LU&si=IZfW3yFNb7niMf0t
11 days ago
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Longreads
14 days ago
"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."
@bolman.bsky.social
for
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve
Brad Bolman on what curveballs reveal about science, shared reality, and American values.
https://pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/when-baseball-threw-physics-a-curve
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Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (
@bolman.bsky.social
) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values.
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/brad-bolman-curveball
19 days ago
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For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from
@bolman.bsky.social
on PW Broadcast.
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/brad-bolman-curveball
19 days ago
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Brad Bolman
20 days ago
The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/brad-bolman-curveball
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Watch
@deerhoof.bsky.social
's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands.
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Deerhoof Live at Pioneer Works
YouTube video by Pioneer Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUhD8av0ary_H16q&v=YDjk0tvIVJI&feature=youtu.be
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Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and
@gowanusdredgers.bsky.social
track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters.
@amypedulla.bsky.social
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“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the
@gowanusdredgers.bsky.social
are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast,
@amypedulla.bsky.social
reports.
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Guardians of Gowanus | Broadcast
Along the city’s most polluted waterway, a band of citizen scientists is turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/gowanus-amy-pedulla-gary-francis-dredgers
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This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (
@chriskraus.bsky.social
) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast.
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house,
@parisreview.bsky.social
poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (
@mattbroaddus.bsky.social
), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor MĂłnica de la Torre.
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“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from
@aaknopf.bsky.social
, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with
@greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
.
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The Cooler Jesus | Broadcast
Julian Brave NoiseCat on the myth and mischief of Coyote—and the foolish river pirate who signaled his return.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we-survived-the-night-julian-brave-noisecat
about 1 month ago
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"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast.
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"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast.
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Big Apple Sky Calendar: October, November, December 2025 | Broadcast
Dramatic highlights from the skies above Earth by intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/big-apple-sky-calendar-october-november-december-2025
about 1 month ago
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“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from
@madeleinewatts.bsky.social
, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy.
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Tentacle Memory | Broadcast
When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tentacle-memory-madeleine-watts
about 2 months ago
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How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy,
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
finds a harbinger for our warming world.
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Edge of Paradise | Broadcast
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/edge-of-paradise-lauren-markham
about 2 months ago
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Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast,
@jannalevinastro.bsky.social
writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself.
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Picture This: Hot Bodies | Broadcast
To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/picture-this-hot-bodies-janna-levin-heat-week
about 2 months ago
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“We were both frustrated about how climate art mostly just grieved. We wanted to locate agency and not just give in to sorrow.”
@lav.io
,
@tega.bsky.social
, and
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
talk pirate solutions to climate change.
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Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/climate-hacks-tega-brain-sam-lavigne-shannon-mattern
about 2 months ago
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Meera Subramanian
about 2 months ago
Another achingly beautiful piece on mothering against the "apocalypse," from
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
. Among The Ruins via Broadcast of
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
.
#climateweeknyc
#heat
#climatecrisis
#Rome
#NYC
#trees
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Among The Ruins | Broadcast
Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/among-the-ruins-emily-raboteau-heat-week
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“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (
@billmckibben.bsky.social
) on shade’s fragile mercy.
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about 2 months ago
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“Air-conditioning is not just a technology of personal comfort; it is also a technology of forgetting.” Jeff Goodell (
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
) on the fraught luxury of cold air.
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about 2 months ago
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Heat won’t show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame. Emily Raboteau (
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
) on raising kids and growing trees in the mouth of a lion.
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Among The Ruins | Broadcast
Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/among-the-ruins-emily-raboteau-heat-week
about 2 months ago
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Lucy Sante (
@luxante.bsky.social
) shares an ode to the season that scorches: “It was all those cars, all those drugs, all that red meat, all that money it sucked up and vaporized. Summer only remembers luxury and rage.”
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Lucy Sante: A Thousand Julys | Broadcast
Summer only remembers luxury and rage.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/summer-lucy-sante-heat-week
about 2 months ago
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Shannon Mattern
about 2 months ago
I had the pleasure of speaking with
@tega.bsky.social
+
@lav.io
about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
!
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Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/climate-hacks-tega-brain-sam-lavigne-shannon-mattern
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about 2 months ago
"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
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@pioneerwork.bsky.social
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Edge of Paradise | Broadcast
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/edge-of-paradise-lauren-markham
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Broadcast presents HEAT WEEK—a series of dispatches from a world on fire. Ft
@luxante.bsky.social
,
@billmckibben.bsky.social
,
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
,
@jannalevinastro.bsky.social
,
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
,
@philipcball.bsky.social
.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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“Huge testicles, a long upright tail, and extensive territory: these are the foundations of wren triumph.” Now on Broadcast, an intimate look into the polygynous lives of wren, from Adam Nicolson’s BIRD SCHOOL (
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
).
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about 2 months ago
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“The answer to death is sex.” Adam Nicolson on the lustful lives of wrens—an exclusive excerpt from BIRD SCHOOL, out now from
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
.
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about 2 months ago
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Sam Lavigne
about 2 months ago
Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with
@tega.bsky.social
at
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
. It's up until Dec 13th. The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.
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RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who in 2023 warned Joshua Minsoo Kim against what he called real death: “When people graduate, they sometimes think they know stuff. That’s what dying is. When you think you know, that’s when you’ve really died.”
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about 2 months ago
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Farewell to Hermeto Pascoal—the Brazilian master who found music everywhere. On the day after his 2023 set at Pioneer Works, he said to Joshua Minsoo Kim that death didn’t scare him: “People think about it as an end, but for me it’s just part of the journey.”
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The Eternal Life of Hermeto Pascoal | Broadcast
The late Brazilian master found music everywhere.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/hermeto-pascoal-joshua-minsoo-kim
about 2 months ago
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National Academy of Sciences
2 months ago
Einstein once said science & art coalesce at high levels of mastery.
#NASmember
S. James Gates, Jr. has found that fusion in “adinkras,” geometric diagrams that illuminate supersymmetry & help visualize hidden truths of nature. Read more in
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
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Picture This: Adinkras | Broadcast
Sylvester James Gates on reality's hidden matrix.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/picture-this-adinkras-sylvester-james-gates
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Gavin Schmidt
about 2 months ago
NASA GISS folks talking about climate at
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
in Red Hook today 12-4pm. Come say hi!
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“I just want to know her damn name.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) on ancestral presence, living records, and the power of naming names.
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“I don’t really draw and I don’t really paint, but me and words are tight.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes on the power of archives, the practice of play, and the presence of ancestors.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Wants to Name Names | Broadcast
Jazmine Hughes talks to the artist for whom message is medium and process is play.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/kameelah-janan-rasheed-jazmine-hughes
2 months ago
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Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed (@sprawlingtext) and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) discuss process as play, writing as high art, and why searching is the point: “Capitalism requires a certain sense of finality, and me and capitalism haven’t gotten along.”
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Wants to Name Names | Broadcast
Jazmine Hughes talks to the artist for whom message is medium and process is play.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/kameelah-janan-rasheed-jazmine-hughes
2 months ago
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What kind of clam are you? In her latest memoir, Anelise Chen inhabits her inner mollusk to spin solitude into revelation. For PW Broadcast, Carolina Abbott GalvĂŁo considers CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandom) and the pleasures and perils of a life spent inward.
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What Kind of Clam Are You? | Broadcast
In becoming a mollusk, Anelise Chen turns reclusion into revelation.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/anelise-chen-carolina-abbott-galvao-clams
3 months ago
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How do you turn reclusion into revelation without letting hiding become habit? In CLAM DOWN (
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
), Anelise Chen writes as a mollusk to study reclusion, inheritance, and how our own survival instincts can injure us.
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What Kind of Clam Are You? | Broadcast
In becoming a mollusk, Anelise Chen turns reclusion into revelation.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/anelise-chen-carolina-abbott-galvao-clams
3 months ago
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jenn pelly
4 months ago
grilled my sister for
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Sister Inquiry | Broadcast
The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jenn-pelly-liz-pelly-mood-machine
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
3 months ago
For
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
, Jordan Kisner talks with Garth Greenwell about being ruthless with your art. Read the interview here:
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Garth Greenwell Is Too Much | Broadcast
Jordan Kisner talks with the novelist and critic about being ruthless with your art.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/garth-greenwell-jordan-kisner-too-much
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3 months ago
"A library-based service might not fully 'solve' the streaming dilemma, but I think it would help foster intentional listening, which is part of the puzzle." A conversation between
@jennpelly.bsky.social
and
@lizpelly.bsky.social
for
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
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Sister Inquiry | Broadcast
The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jenn-pelly-liz-pelly-mood-machine
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Can we talk to whales—or are we just beginning to understand how they talk to each other? In Scientific Controversies, Janna Levin joins David Gruber and Joy Reidenberg to explore how sperm whales communicate through clicks, codas, and anatomy. Watch now:
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Can We Talk to Whales? Experts Weigh in.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
https://tinyurl.com/5n97bz2t
3 months ago
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“I think any artist’s life is a kind of gamble.” Does art retain its value when everything else falls away? @GarthGreenwell and Jordan Kisner discuss Small Rain and devotion.
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3 months ago
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“My whole aesthetic practice is predicated on if something is too much, you do more of it.” Writer @GarthGreenwell talks to Jordan Kisner on art, annihilation, and ruthless devotion.
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Garth Greenwell Is Too Much | Broadcast
Jordan Kisner talks with the novelist and critic about being ruthless with your art.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/garth-greenwell-jordan-kisner-too-much
3 months ago
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What if reality itself is a computer simulation? Theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates on reality’s hidden matrix.
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Picture This: Adinkras | Broadcast
Sylvester James Gates on reality's hidden matrix.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/picture-this-adinkras-sylvester-james-gates
3 months ago
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“War Profiteers Out of Music should also include Daniel Ek.” Liz Pelly on how Spotify gentrified file-sharing culture, and what the future of music should look like.
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Sister Inquiry | Broadcast
The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jenn-pelly-liz-pelly-mood-machine
4 months ago
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“One conversation can change your life.” For Liz Pelly, it was a 7th grade friend telling her to download music on Napster. She joins
@jennpelly.bsky.social
‬ to talk streaming’s cost, and the future of listening
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Sister Inquiry | Broadcast
The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jenn-pelly-liz-pelly-mood-machine
4 months ago
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“It’s an eternal teenager sensibility.” Identical twin sisters Jenn Pelly (
@jennpelly.bsky.social
‬) and Liz Pelly stopped by Pioneer Works to discuss DIY music, music writing, and life beyond streaming.
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Sister Inquiry | Broadcast
The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jenn-pelly-liz-pelly-mood-machine
4 months ago
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