Art Heals All Wounds: Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Avant-Garde Composer and Guitarist

05/04/22 • 31 min

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Today, I’m joined by avant garde and experimental composer and guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante. You might remember my conversation with his wife, filmmaker Marjorie Sturm, back in season 1 where we touched on how they are creating a home for their children to also explore the arts. Ernesto and I expand on that a little further and discuss how his childhood shaped how he and Marjorie are raising their family. We also get into how his music has evolved since his days in the Mexican rock band, Cielo Azul. Transcription

Topics Covered:

● What avant-garde music means to Ernesto

● The role that music played in his family growing up

● The story behind how he joined a rock band at the age of thirteen

● What inspired him to take a different path from mainstream music

● His approach to parenthood

Guest Info:

● Ernesto's Instagram

● Ernesto's Bandcamp

● paxrecordings.com

Other Music

· Cielo Azul

· Ketsa

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Topics Covered:

● What avant-garde music means to Ernesto

● The role that music played in his family growing up

● The story behind how he joined a rock band at the age of thirteen

● What inspired him to take a different path from mainstream music

● His approach to parenthood

Guest Info:

● Ernesto's Instagram

● Ernesto's Bandcamp

● paxrecordings.com

Other Music

· Cielo Azul

· Ketsa

Special Offer:

● Check out https://newsly.me and use the promo code ARTHEALS for a free one-month premium subscription.

Kasama Labs

● Sign up for the next Shelter in Pace weekender audio storytelling class labs at shelterinplacepodcast.org/labs.

Follow Me:

● Art Heals All Wounds Website

● Art Heals All Wounds Instagram

● Art Heals All Wounds Twitter

● Art Heals All Wounds Facebook

● Art Heals All Wounds Newsletter

Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Laura Joyce Davis, Creator and Host of the Podcast Shelter in Place

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Today, I’m joined by Laura Joyce Davis, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place. What started as a creative outlet to cope with the stay-at-home order of March 2020 has now turned into almost 200 episodes of narrative nonfiction storytelling about reimagining life through creativity and community. Laura and her husband have since expanded into the podcast education space with the launch of Kasama Collective, an intensive podcast training program for female and non-binary audio storytellers, as well as a self-paced online course. We discuss navigating motherhood and creative ambitions, confronting the role of perfectionism in her life, and what inspires her to continue showing up authentically online. Transcription

Topics Covered:

● How Laura started and scaled Shelter in Place and Kasama Collective

● Balance your needs as a creative person with your parental duties

● Why perfectionism isn’t always a bad thing

● Creating community and fulfilling the desire for connection via podcasting

● Being recognized at the International Women's Podcast Awards

Guest Info:

● Shelter in Place Website

● Kasama Collective Podcast Training

● Kasama Labs Online Course

Featured Podcast:

● Wild Precious Life

Join author, educator, and learner, Annmarie Kelly as she laughs, cries, and kvetches with the writers, musicians, entrepreneurs, and wanderers who inspire all of us to reach beyond our divisions and discover what it means to be wild, precious, and brave.

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● Check out https://newsly.me and use the promo code ARTHEALS for a free one-month premium subscription.

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Art Heals All Wounds: Michael O. Snyder, Photographer and Filmmaker

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Today, I’m joined by photographer, filmmaker, and educator Michael O. Snyder. His work focuses on the intersectionality of environmental and cultural change. Our conversation is centered around his project called The Coming Coast. In this photography project, Michael explores the impact of rising seas and how it will affect the Chesapeake Bay in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The area is important both strategically and infrastructurally, and it is predicted to be one of the places most highly impacted by rising sea levels. We also talk about some of his other work, including a film called Into the Dark, how he brings visibility and awareness to abstract concepts, and his approach for reaching diverse audiences.

Transcript

Topics Covered:

● The impact on the ecology, infrastructure, and cultures of the communities affected by coastline change

● What the term ‘value-action gap’ means

● The direction and vision for The Coming Coast project, and how that changed when the pandemic hit

● The underlying role that climate change plays in migration

● Transforming the documentary material into other art forms to reach a wider audience

Guest Info:

● Michael's Website

● Michael's Instagram

Resources:

● Raincoast Conservation Foundation