#29 Chris Cogburn - Percussionist/Improvisor

08/07/18 • 88 min

Pull up a chair, open your ears and prepare your mind for a great conversation with one sweet human. In Ep. 29 of CWD I sit down with sound artist and percussionist Chris Cogburn. Chris also happens to be my grant writer as well as the organizer and master mind of the No Idea Festival which just had its 15th year in Austin this past February. Furthermore, Chris has played a major role in helping me conceive of and initiate the Ground Light Sound collaborative art project and is one of six artists involved in the project. Listen in as we discuss all these things and more! Find out more about No Idea Festival at http://noideafestival.com/ and also check out some recent work by Chris and a trio he plays with in Mexico City here: https://anahuac.bandcamp.com/

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#28 Lisa Cameron - Sound Artist and Drummer

In Ep. 28 I sit down with drummer and sound artist Lisa Cameron. Lisa is one of six artists I am collaborating with for Ground Light Sound, a collaborative art project and opening funded in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. The opening will be September 28th at Cloud Tree on east 5th in Austin. Lisa Cameron played drums professionally with the band Brave Combo in Denton from 1977 until she moved to Austin in 1981. She went on to play with Roky Erickson, the Lotions, Glass Eye , Squat Thrust, Three Day Stubble, Daniel Johnston, Moist Fist, JSAS (Jherri Siggenfeld's Atrophied Sac), ST 37, and numerous others throughout the Eighties and Nineties. She has been working additionally with experimental music since the late 70's and its a real honor to be working with her.

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#30 Adele Hauser - Artist

This is the third in a special series of interviews with my collaborating artists for the Ground Light Sound project. Though I will be collaborating with Adele on lighting for the project, she is a talented multi media artist with a robust drive to make and design. Listen in as we discuss her background growing up in Austin, her thoughts on quilting, her discovery of an ancient knife at a archeological dig as a kid & more!