Subject, Object, Verb is the sonic counterpart to ArtReview magazine, one of the world’s leading publications on contemporary art. The show explores the connections between artist, art and life – or, in the show’s own lexicon: subject, object and verb. Musician, artist and writer Ross Simonini engages with artists and thinkers of all varieties, including but not limited to painters, fashion designers, filmmakers, novelists, sculptors, poets, composers, sound artists, curators, and philosophe ...
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Stoner is a freewheeling conversation that often starts with "when was the first time you ever smoked weed?" and can end up anywhere. Guests range from artists to musicians to those working in the marijuana economy. Host Aaron Lammer is also the co-host of the Longform Podcast and has co-written songs with Francis and the Lights for artists like Chance the Rapper and Drake.
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Paul McCarthy is a legendary performance artist, painter and filmmaker. He is less known for his work as a musician, though he has been active as an improvising sound artist since his days in music school. Today, he continues to play with his band, Extended Organ (formed with Mike Kelley) and to edit the sound in his films with the sensibility of n…
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S2 Ep16: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Pop Music of the Future
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This episode is a conversation with the writer, Matt Marble on the composer Arthur Russell, who was active in the ‘70s and ‘80s music scene in New York. Marble’s book Buddhist Bubblegum is a study of Russell’s life and music, which spanned many styles and invoked esoteric practices such as Tantra and Shingon Buddhism. On the podcast, Marble discuss…
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S2 Ep15: Podcast: Joanne Robertson on Improvisation
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This episode features the musician and painter, Joanne Robertson whose work is born from improvisation. She regularly collaborates with other artists, such as Dean Blunt and Sidsel Meineche Hansen, who plays a vacuum on Joanne’s most recent release. We discuss her ideas on music, art and life, all while she nurses her newborn baby. Featured image P…
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S2 Ep14: Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak: the Sound of Language
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This episode features two multimedia artists, Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak, who both work with sculpture, music, language and ideas. Mobarak discusses her new work, Dafne Phono, an audio-based adaptation of the first known opera, translated into the most morphophonologically complex languages in the world. Gul presents an essay from her most recent b…
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S2 Ep13: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Metal Opera
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Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix is the leading creative force in the highly eclectic band, Liturgy. She also makes sculpture and has created her own philosophical system called Transcendental Qabala, which informs much of her work. In this episode, we discuss her opera, Origin of the Alimonies, which she considers a total work of art, involving film, s…
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S2 Ep12: Mochu – Narrating Art, Deep Time and Freeports
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Mochu is an artist who creates narrative technofictions in his films, writings and lectures. In this episode, he presents an audio adaptation of his new book, Nervous Fossils: Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether, which discusses fossils, synthetic colour production, and time-traveling syndromes. The episode takes place in an art freeport and drifts b…
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S2 Ep11: Natasha Ginwala on the Sound of Riots
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For the last five years, curator Natasha Ginwala has been investigating riots, uprisings, and pogroms. As a part of this research, she’s curated an exhibition and edited the book Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound, edited with Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri. For this podcast, Ginwala considers the sonic expression of riots through a collecti…
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S2 Ep10: Jared Madere’s Guide to Making Music with AI
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For the last few years, the artist Jared Madere has invented images and music using artificial intelligence. He jams AI systems with irrationality to arrive at pictures and songs that are both familiar and alien. In this episode, Madere discusses the ‘frozen operas’ he has been performing around the world and the idiosyncratic process he uses to co…
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Ei Arakawa is an artist working in sculpture, performance and more recently, musicals. In this episode Arakawa is interviewed for the first time about his songs, which have been largely overshadowed by his largescale performances, at venues such as Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Arakawa goes on to discuss the pro…
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Klein is multi-disciplinary artist. She’s made a feature length film, a hypertext storytelling game and theatrical works, but is primarily known for her music, a beguiling collage of sound. This episode features an interview in which Klein manipulates her vocals and provides a playlist of TV sitcom theme songs, commercial jingles, and Nigerian Noll…
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S2 Ep7: Sheila Heti on Thinking about Thinking
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Sheila Heti is a writer who interrogates the role of the writer, questions the limits of the book and explores the spectrum of literature. She has written novels, fables, a fashion book, a play, and philosophical investigations into everyday life. On this episode, she discusses working with systems as an artist, her love of thinking about thinking,…
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Tao Lin has a relentlessly curious mind. In his fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, he toes the line between reality and the imagined. His newest novel, Leave Society (2021), uses a great depth of nonfictional research to push against the ideas of accepted science as they related to his life. In an era of proliferating controversial theories, Tao's bo…
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S2 Ep5: Simon Critchley on Pandemic Mysticism
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Philosopher Simon Critchley writes about the history of human thought with generosity and open-minded curiosity. His newest book, Bald, is a collection of writings from his New York Times column, ‘The Stone’, which covers a vast cultural spectrum, from Socrates to David Bowie to Mormonism. On this episode, he presents his lecture on ‘Pandemic Mysti…
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The musician and filmmaker, Flying Lotus has created a body of psychedelic, horrific and musically sophisticated work. On this episode, he discusses his thoughts on film school, spirituality, cannabis, and the piano, alongside a few excerpts from his new album, a soundtrack to the Samurai anime series, Yasuke. Host Ross Simonini Credits Produced by…
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Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny has spent the last five decades investigating music from a vast array of musical approaches. On this episode, he discusses music from a philosophical perspective, alongside a few excerpts from his album of guitar quartet music Road to The Sun. Host Ross Simonini Credits Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini…
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Painter Tschabalala Self plays and discusses her new audio work, Cotton Mouth, which uses sound collage and oral history to tell the story of contemporary black pop culture. Host Ross Simonini Credits Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini.By ArtReview
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Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan opens up his personal inventory of recorded sounds, which he has featured in his many investigative sound works. For this episode, Abu Hamdan simultaneously performs these sounds and discusses their slippery nature in his Dubai studio with curator Sabih Ahmed. Host Ross Simonini Credits Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simo…
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S1 Ep4: Ariel Pink, Johanna Hedva, and Jacolby Satterwhite
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Musician Ariel Pink opens up his unreleased private archive of voice memos and talks about his love of unproduced bootlegs. Artist Jacolby Satterwhite plays a track from his band, PAT, which samples amateur song recordings made by his mother. Musician and writer Johanna Hedva discusses the many extended vocal techniques and experimental vocalists t…
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Writer Mason Currey discusses the daily rituals of Maya Angelou, Truman Capote, Beethoven, Patricia Highsmith, David Lynch, W.H. Auden and Lillian Hellman. Artist Natalie Labriola speaks about the history of female mystic artists, including Hildegard von Bingen, Betye Saar, Georgiana Houghton, CA Conrad, and Ana Mendieta. Candice Lin offers a surre…
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S1 Ep2: Josh Smith, Farah Al Qasimi, and Angharad Williams
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Painter Josh Smith speaks about his reclusive lifestyle and his conflicted relationship with exhibiting his work. Photographer, Farah Al Qasimi discusses her secret life as a soundcloud musician and plays some new music. Writer, Patrick Langley discusses the history of telephone art, and artist, Angharad Williams performs an act of channeling. Host…
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S1 Ep1: Dawn Kasper, Samson Young, and Susan Cianciolo
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Performance artist Dawn Kasper unpacks the process of making a collaborative sound work in Frankfurt, Germany. Artist Susan Ciancolo recalls her dreams, tells a joke and reads aloud her favourite book from her apartment in New York. Sound artist, Samson Young discusses a magic bell, tobacco auctioneers, and protest chanting in Hong Kong. Host Ross …
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT + Francis Starlite Rerun
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Stoner is taking a hiatus so I can write a book for Ten Speed based on this podcast! Gonna re-run some of my favorite Season 1 episodes over the holidays, then back with new episodes in 2019 after the book is turned in.By Stoner
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Episode 42: Ross Simonini, writer and artist
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Ross Simonini is the the author of The Book of Formation and the longtime interviews editor of The Believer. We talked about touring in bands, cults, and self-restrictions.By Stoner
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Episode 41: Elise McDonough, author of Bong Appétit
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Elise McDonough is the author of Bong Appétit and The High Times Cannabis Cookbook. She lives in Santa Cruz. @CannabisEdibles420By Stoner
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Episode 40: Matt Taibbi, co-writer of The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
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Matt Taibbi discovered a longtime acquaintance had a secret life as a marijuana kingpin, sending product all over the United States in car trunks. With his anonymous co-author, he collaborated on 'The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male,' an intimate and detailed account of the business of grey legal marijuan…
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Episode 39: Ann Friedman, co-host of 'Call Your Girlfriend'
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Ann Friedman is a longtime "casual but committed " marijuana fan and a writer in Los Angeles. She co-hosts Call Your Girlfriend with previous Stoner guest Aminatou Sow.By Stoner
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Episode 38: Peter Watts, author of Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
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Peter Watts discusses the library of Julio Santo Domingo who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s largest private collection of books and ephemera related to the topic of drugs.By Stoner
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Amanda Mac from Terp School talks about how terpenes tell you a lot more than sativa and indica labels. We also got into the differences between full spectrum and "gateway" CBD.By Stoner
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Paul Flannery is a sportswriter and a serious runner who went to the Colorado mountains to train with a championship ultramarathoner (Avery Collins) who runs stoned. Read: CANNABIS IS FUELING ONE OF THE BEST RUNNERS IN AMERICA (SB Nation) Also discussed: 🌱 Recent research about cannabis and exercise 🌱 Will the NBA ever let players use cannabis? 🌱 C…
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Alexis Coe is a historian and the author of " Alice+Freda Forever." We talked about setting weed rules for yourself, why it's hard to leave a legalization state behind, and which Presidents she thinks might have smoked weed.By Stoner
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Justin Ouellette of Portland's Lightscale Labs returns to talk about: 🌱 why strains are a bad way to sort weed 🌱 experimenting with CBD and micro-dosing LSD 🌱 why he's starting his own cannabis garden.By Stoner
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Episode 33: Ashley Brooke & Tahirah Hairston from The High Ends
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Ashley Brooke & Tahirah Hairston talk to women about their weed habits at The High Ends.By Stoner
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Episode 32: Eduardo Sanchez & Gregg Hale of Haxan Films (Blair Witch Project)
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Director Eduardo Sanchez and Producer Gregg Hale of Haxan Films talk weed and their longstanding creative partnership which started with The Blair Witch Project in 1999.By Stoner
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Episode 31: Anja Charbonneau from Broccoli Magazine
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Anja Charbonneau is the editor-in-chief of the free weed magazine Broccoli and former creative director of Kinfolk.By Stoner
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Episode 30: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR), co-founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus
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Congressman Earl Blumenauer has represented Oregon's 3rd Congressional District since 1996. He is a co-founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus which was formed in 2017. He doesn't smoke marijuana but has "no problem with people who do" and predicts marijuana will be legal within 5 years.By Stoner
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Episode 29: 'Elon Musk Hit the Blunt' w/ Charlie Warzel from Buzzfeed
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Buzzfeed tech reporter Charlie Warzel returns to discuss Elon Musk hitting a blunt on the Joe Rogan Experience and whether we're ready for a stoner CEO.By Stoner
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Episode 28: Adam Lisagor, director and founder of Sandwich Video
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Adam Lisagor makes commercials. We talked about life before the internet, when weed takes you to a dark place, and discovering CBD. Sandwich Video Cornerstone Research Collective in Eagle RockBy Stoner
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Episode 27: Jia Tolentino, writer for The New Yorker
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Stoner is back for Season 2! Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker who wrote recently about the teen vaping sensation Juul. We talked about her intention to die on the moon, the etiquette of sharing popcorn with a complete stranger during a stoned viewing of Beauty and the Beast, and how she navigates her weed life.…
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Episode 26: Cannabis Bar Association co-founders Amanda Conley and Shabnam Malek
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Amanda Conley and Shabnam Malek are Bay Area lawyers who co-founded the National Cannabis Bar Association. They also maintain their own practice, Brand & Branch LLP, which provides intellectual property services to cannabis businesses. We talked about the importance of attorneys sharing notes across state lines, California's confusing legal history…
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Episode 25: Mira Gonzalez, poet and writer
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Mira Gonzalez is a poet and writer in L.A. She got a job at a dispensary when she was 19 and she once drank an entire bottle of weed lube.By Stoner
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Episode 24: Benjamin Dickinson, filmmaker
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Benjamin Dickinson is a director whose most recent film is Creative Control. We talked about being a movie director in the age of TV, his daily writing routine, and his experiences with seeing a dream therapist.By Stoner
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Tao Lin is is the author of the novel Taipei and a forthcoming book Beyond Existentialism about Terence McKenna and psychedelics. We talked about: 🌱 why Tao documents both his own thoughts and his caffeine and cannabis consumption in a giant .RTF document 🌱 having empathy for your parents 🌱 how pesticides block endocannabinoid receptors and steal h…
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Episode 22: The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery w/ Amanda Chicago Lewis
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Amanda Chicago Lewis returns to the show to discuss her new GQ story "The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery" about a shadowy business group that is trying to patent marijuana strains.By Stoner
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Episode 21: Ian Vanek from Japanther and Howardian
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Ian Vanek spent 13 years in the art project duo Japanther. He's currently touring the country by himself on a dirt bike as part of his new project Howardian. We talked about the challenges of solo motorcycle touring, frosted weed milkshakes, and why Japanther called itself an art project instead of a band.…
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Episode 19: Matt Haughey founded Metafilter and works at Slack
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Matt Haughey never touched weed as a teen, despite being a competitive BMX rider in Southern California. He didn't smoke any weed in his 20s either, busy founding Metafilter one of the internet's first collections of "cool shit people find on the internet." By the time he was in 30s, Matt was curious to try marijuana but didn't know anyone who had …
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Episode 18: Samantha Miller, Chief Science Officer at HMBLDT
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Samantha Miller does research that informs the formulation of the special vape pens that hmbldt makes branded not by strain but effect: sleep, bliss, calm, relief. Prior to becoming HMBLDT's in-house scientist, Miller founded Pure Analytics, one of the first cannabis testing labs in the country. We talked about the value of anecdotal evidence in te…
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Episode 17: Cards Against Humanity co-founder Max Temkin and writers Joanna Feldman & Julia Weiss
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Max Temkin is a co-founder of Cards Against Humanity, a "party game for horrible people," and Chicago comedians Joanna Feldman and Julia Weiss are its head writers. After a successful Kickstarter in 2011, Cards Against Humanity was released independently, reaching #1 in Amazon's Games section and spawning numerous expansion packs and copycats. We d…
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Episode 16: Digby, an English cannabis enthusiast who has lived in Morocco since 1973
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In 1973, Digby traveled from England to Morocco seeking out villages that practiced traditional hashmaking. Forty-six years later, he's still there.By Stoner
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Episode 15: Benny Blanco, producer and songwriter
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Benny Blanco has produced twenty-six #1 hits and his records have sold over 100 million copies (or so Wikipedia tells me.) His writing credits include Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream,' Rihanna's 'Diamonds,' Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself,' and Maroon 5's 'Moves Like Jagger.' He was nominated for the 2017 Producer of the Year Grammy. Benny is only 29 an…
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Episode 14: Dope Girls Zine (Beca Grimm & Rachel Hortman)
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Dope Girls Zine's editor Beca Grimm and art director Rachel Hortman discuss why they made a zine for women who "can still get shit done while getting high," living in Atlanta during a rap golden age, and Beca's monthly weed dinner parties.By Stoner
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