Best Fluid Exchange Podcasts (2024)

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"Juvenile B" (anonymous guest) 1:03:44

6y ago1:03:44

1:03:44

"Juvenile B" is the pseudonym we’ve given our anonymous guest, a brilliant American musician who performs creative, non-ideological re-workings of the music used by certain extremist groups for recruitment/propaganda purposes. We talk with him about the scales and modes of various world musics, shock value, and ideology. NB: Neither our guest, nor …

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Wolfe Barrett aka Drrty Pharms 1:33:15

6y ago1:33:15

1:33:15

Wolfe Barrett is the most controversial guest we have had on Fluid Exchange. Barrett is a pariah in the New York DIY scene and we wanted to get at just what it is that makes them so hated by so many people. CW many will be disturbed by much what is expressed in this episode. We at Fluid Exchange in no way support the actions expressed by Barrett.…

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M Lamar 1:55:52

6y ago1:55:52

1:55:52

Another special duo episode, this time with Looker interviewing co-host M. Lamar, a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Lamar expounds on being an 8-year-old opera fanatic, individualism and politics in his work, and what it means to be “free”.…

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Queer Trash 1:29:59

6y ago1:29:59

1:29:59

Queer Trash is a curatorial platform organized by Eames Armstrong, Michael Foster, and Richard Kamerman, as a framework for queer experimental performance practices across live disciplines. Looker and Lamar talk with QT about their relationship to the noise and improv scenes, what they look for in the artists they present, and various meanings of t…

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Penny Arcade 1:26:40

6y ago1:26:40

1:26:40

Penny Arcade is a true New York legend, a prolific performance artist, actor, and playwright whose work has been a fixture of the downtown scene and the worldwide experimental arts scene since the early 80s, having already worked with Andy Warhol, and John Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous, in the 60s and 70s. Looker and Lamar talk with Penny a…

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Charlie Looker 1:37:56

6+ y ago1:37:56

1:37:56

A special duo episode where Lamar interviews co-host Charlie Looker, composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work with the bands Psalm Zero, Extra Life, and ZS, as well as his chamber music. The two discuss John Zorn, their personal interpretations of the word "bourgeois", and why it's an exciting time to be making art as a whit…

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Dreamcrushr 1:28:25

6+ y ago1:28:25

1:28:25

Luwayne Glass (aka Dreamcrushr) has been active as a producer and performer of harsh electronic music in the US and global underground since the early 00s. Looker and Lamar talk with Luwayne about sneaking out to punk shows at a kid, their “ho phase”, and the both the usefulness and problems with their self-coined genre description, “Nihilist Queer…

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Zohra Atash 1:58:08

6+ y ago1:58:08

1:58:08

Zohra Atash is a singer, songwriter and musician whose projects include Azar Swan and Religious to Damn. She is also an irregular columnist at Slutist. Looker and Lamar talk with Zohra about her Afghani family’s turbulent story, her rich perspectives on various vocal techniques from around the world, and the importance of discipline, and craft.…

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Sam Hillmer 1:33:07

6+ y ago1:33:07

1:33:07

Sam Hillmer is a musician, artist, and curator living in Brooklyn NY. He is the creator of seminal Brooklyn noise band/chamber ensemble ZS, the You are Here Festival (aka the maze) which he conceives and produces with his visual art duo Trouble, and outsider hip hop moniker Representing NYC. Looker and Lamar talk with Sam about running venues in Ne…

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Manuel Gagneux 59:00

6+ y ago59:00

59:00

Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux is the lead singer, guitarist, and mind behind the new rising band Zeal & Ardor, where he combines elements of black metal, electronic, and traditional black American music. Manuel talks with Looker and Lamar about the problem with calling artists "problematic", Negro spirituals, and his personal relationship with Sata…

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Robert A.A. Lowe 1:18:49

6+ y ago1:18:49

1:18:49

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe makes music under the moniker Lichens, using voice and modular synthesizer to create spontaneous compositions that explore the physicality of sound. He is also a member of revered psych/doom metal band OM. Looker and Lamar talk with Robert about his roots in the 90s midwest avant rock scene, the electricity, nature, and the …

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Hunter Hunt-Hendrix 1:13:40

6+ y ago1:13:40

1:13:40

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is a New York composer, guitarist, vocalist, and writer, who leads the band Liturgy, makes electronic music under the name Kel Valhaal, and enraged many people in the black metal scene a few years back with his unsolicited philosophical essay "Transcendental Black Metal". Looker and Lamar sit down with Hunter to riff on the ahis…

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06: Capturing all relevant scales of biosphere-atmosphere exchange - Measurements and computations, 11.08.2017 1:34:54

6+ y ago1:34:54

1:34:54

06 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:26 Motivation0:07:51 The spectral gap0:12:18 Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions0:20:41 Historical overview of the energy balance closure problem0:25:29 Hypotheses for potential reasons of the energy balance closure problem0:27:49 Research approach and methods0:31:56 Wavelet analysis0:36:06 Large-eddy simulation0:42:13 Scale-cr…

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16: Fish behaviour in response to hydrodynamic stimuli, 17.08.2017 1:09:56

6+ y ago1:09:56

1:09:56

16 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:22 Acknowledgement0:02:00 Introduction0:09:35 The drag function D0:13:04 Methods0:17:47 Flow field (ADV measurements)0:20:53 Space used vs Space sampled0:22:22 Hydrodynamic preference curves0:23:38 Specialized Behaviours Zones (SBZ)0:26:25 Results0:29:55 Results: How do other hydrodynamic metrics perform?0:33:11 Drag Function…

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15: Eco-Hydraulics and life in moving fluids, 17.08.2017 1:39:29

6+ y ago1:39:29

1:39:29

15 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:30 Lectures outline0:04:00 Lecture 1.1 – An introduction to Eco–Hydraulics and fish locomotion0:04:05 What is Eco–Hydraulics?0:05:43 Fish–migration0:07:12 Hydraulic barriers and threats0:16:04 The big picture0:19:00 Fish locomotion0:31:56 Fish sensing0:45:36 Sight (slightly off topic)0:47:30 References0:48:10 Lecture 1.2 – Sw…

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12: Plant water movement in xylem and phloem: A new perspective, 16.08.2017 56:07

6+ y ago56:07

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12 | 0:00:00 Start0:00:44 Why study plants?0:02:09 Agricultural production0:03:54 Plant vascular transport 0:05:58 Drought kills trees 0:06:56 Question: Why do plants need (so much) water?0:08:02 Exchange of water for CO2 0:08:27 Cost of CO2 Diffusion and Fick's law0:14:32 Transport Processes: Diffusion and advection0:16:08 The Advection-Diffusion …

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07: Turbulent Structure in Plant Canopies, 11.08.2017 1:25:07

6+ y ago1:25:07

1:25:07

07 | 0:00:00 Start0:00:50 Reminder-where did we get to on Wednesday?0:03:23 Time-Trace of velocity fluctuations-sweeps and ejections0:05:40 Ejection/sweep ratios (neutral conditions)0:08:43 Large-eddy simulation of canopy flows0:09:34 ISL and Canopy Layer Velocity Profiles0:10:53 Inflexion point in the velocity profile at canopy top is inevitable0:…

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09: Society as a Complex System - Can we find a safe and just operating space for humanity?, 12.08.2017 1:32:24

6+ y ago1:32:24

1:32:24

09 | 0:00:00 Start0:00:45 What are the Sustainable Development Goals?0:02:12 Biophysical Planetary Boundaries – Staying in the Holocene0:04:11 Social Planetary Boundaries – can we live within the doughnut?0:04:50 These biophysical and social boundaries are fundamentally different0:06:09 What is a complex system?0:08:05 Emergence0:11:47 Self organiz…

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05: Models and predictions: Basic ingredients, dimensionless numbers, predictions versus predictability - and what can go wrong, 10.08.2017 59:03

6+ y ago59:03

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05 | 0:00:00 start0:02:19 Structure of Talk0:02:54 Introduction0:09:08 The purpose of models0:15:55 Basic ingredients of models0:19:26 Predictability and determinism0:22:43 Nonlinear effects (Deterministic chaos)0:27:46 Verification of models –– ''non–verifiable'' models0:30:07 Verification of models –– no-analog communities0:32:19 Computing models…

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14: Physical limits on plant size and their organs, 16.08.2017 45:26

6+ y ago45:26

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14 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:52 Literature0:01:55 Centennial of On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson0:02:44 Question: Why no wheels in nature?0:03:31 Example: Why no wheels?0:04:37 Question: What drives evolution in biological systems?0:04:54 Energetics of Evolution0:06:50 Example: Size of living organisms0:07:29 Bacterial size limited by feeding strate…

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10: An introduction to the soil-root-system, 14.08.2017 1:20:44

6+ y ago1:20:44

1:20:44

10 | 0:00:00 Start0:00:27 An introduction to the soil-root-system0:01:59 Bulk Soil Properties Defined0:07:58 Representative Elementary Volume (REV) and the continuum hypothesis0:11:20 State equation for soil water0:13:12 Fluxes and flow of water0:14:41 Text-book view-Analogy to other transport laws0:21:50 Fluxes and flow of water0:23:31 Fluxes and …

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08: Life with an Altitude: A biosphere-Atmosphere Perspektive, 12.08.2017 1:30:46

6+ y ago1:30:46

1:30:46

08 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:20 Life with an Altitude0:02:41 The Eagle's Perspective0:04:56 The Flux Sensor's Perspective0:05:39 Surface- Atmosphere Exchange over Inhomogeneous Terrain0:07:17 Pattern: Spatial Scales0:07:55 Landscape: Impose Pattern and Scale0:08:40 Is this forest homogeneous?0:09:17 Measured Variability depends on Resolution:0:12:28 Plan…

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03: Airflow in Plant Canopies, 09.08.2017 1:27:45

6+ y ago1:27:45

1:27:45

03 | 0:00:00 Start0:02:05 The atmospheric environment0:05:37 Turbulence0:18:42 Richardson Number0:20:55 TKE and the turbulence spectrum0:22:26 Boundary layers0:26:31 Some basic concepts and formulae0:29:27 Structure of the daytime atmospheric boundary layer0:32:39 Dimensional Analysis0:36:47 Neutrally stratified surface layer0:38:00 The ubiquitous …

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02: Introduction to the fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of cavitation in plants, 09.08.2017 1:17:05

6+ y ago1:17:05

1:17:05

02 | 0:00:00 Start0:01:05 Structure of Talk0:01:44 Very short history of land plant evolution0:04:41 Rapid radiation of vascular plants0:05:16 Xylem structure of vascular plants0:07:45 Part 1 – Outline of the cohesion - tension theory0:07:48 Anatomic features of the plant water transport system0:08:19 Experimental evidence for sap flow0:10:06 Outli…

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04: Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange: From kinetic theory to the limits of plant life, 10.08.2017 1:29:20

6+ y ago1:29:20

1:29:20

04 | 0:00:00 Start0:00:59 Collaborators0:02:12 Introduction0:03:09 Evaporation: A Molecular Perspective0:05:57 From ‘Molecular‘ to ‘Turbulence‘0:07:59 Bringing in the energy0:10:38 Combination equation and thermal stratification effects0:11:34 Bringing in the plants0:13:35 Stomata and the climate system0:15:08 Stomata and climate0:16:21 Stomata and…

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01: Introduction to stress physiology of plants, 09.08.2017 52:38

6+ y ago52:38

52:38

01 | 0:00:00 Start 0:00:20 Stress Physiology of Plants 0:02:27 Background - Stress 0:03:35 Relevance of drought & heat stress 0:04:32 Example: European summer drought & heat in 2003 0:05:59 Why is water shortage critical for plants? 0:06:17 The plant water highway 0:09:43 Example: Callitris - most drought-resistant conifer genus in the world 0:12:1…

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00: The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start, 09.08.2017 1:16:30

6+ y ago1:16:30

1:16:30

00 | 0:00:00 Start 0:02:45 The Speakers... 0:15:47 Introduction 0:18:49 van Leeuwenhoek's estimate 0:19:28 Projections all use logistic curve 0:20:39 Carrying capacity K 0:21:54 Equilibrium versus steady-state 0:28:06 Stability classification of logistic Equ. 0:28:58 Relaxation time scale 0:29:45 Longer term view of population growth 0:30:58 Longer…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Fluid Exchange Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Fluid Exchange

M Lamar, Charlie Looker

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Transport Phenomena in the Biosphere

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

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"Juvenile B" (anonymous guest) 1:03:44

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Wolfe Barrett aka Drrty Pharms 1:33:15

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M Lamar 1:55:52

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Queer Trash 1:29:59

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Penny Arcade 1:26:40

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Charlie Looker 1:37:56

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Dreamcrushr 1:28:25

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Zohra Atash 1:58:08

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Sam Hillmer 1:33:07

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Manuel Gagneux 59:00

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Robert A.A. Lowe 1:18:49

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Hunter Hunt-Hendrix 1:13:40

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06: Capturing all relevant scales of biosphere-atmosphere exchange - Measurements and computations, 11.08.2017 1:34:54

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16: Fish behaviour in response to hydrodynamic stimuli, 17.08.2017 1:09:56

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15: Eco-Hydraulics and life in moving fluids, 17.08.2017 1:39:29

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12: Plant water movement in xylem and phloem: A new perspective, 16.08.2017 56:07

1
07: Turbulent Structure in Plant Canopies, 11.08.2017 1:25:07

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09: Society as a Complex System - Can we find a safe and just operating space for humanity?, 12.08.2017 1:32:24

1
05: Models and predictions: Basic ingredients, dimensionless numbers, predictions versus predictability - and what can go wrong, 10.08.2017 59:03

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14: Physical limits on plant size and their organs, 16.08.2017 45:26

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10: An introduction to the soil-root-system, 14.08.2017 1:20:44

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08: Life with an Altitude: A biosphere-Atmosphere Perspektive, 12.08.2017 1:30:46

1
03: Airflow in Plant Canopies, 09.08.2017 1:27:45

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02: Introduction to the fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of cavitation in plants, 09.08.2017 1:17:05

1
04: Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange: From kinetic theory to the limits of plant life, 10.08.2017 1:29:20

1
01: Introduction to stress physiology of plants, 09.08.2017 52:38

1
00: The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start, 09.08.2017 1:16:30

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