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Linsey Pollak: Maker and Adventurer (re-release)
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This week, I’m featuring a wonderful episode from the archive, with Linsey Pollak, which was recorded and released in Season 2 of this podcast, 2022. Linsey Pollak is an Australian musician who is known worldwide as a passionate and creative advocate for community music. His life has been full of unusual opportunities to explore different styles of music, and his inventiveness has spurred him to create countless instruments from found objects. In this episode you’ll get to hear him play 4 different instruments in different improvisatory styles, and I’m sure that everyone will be inspired by stories from his life, describing some of his incredibly unusual, fun and beautiful collaborations and creations.
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Linsey Pollak website: https://linseypollak.com/
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photo credit: Beat Lehmann
Timestamps:
(00:00 Intro)
(01:58) gaida music
(05:10) Rafting trip, discovering Macedonian bagpipes, first trip to Macedonia
(11:35) trip to Greece to study klarino with Stavros Vasthekis
(13:15) discovering the Macedonian community in Australia, establishing Kulcha
(17:36) Linsey’s start making instruments, London and Early Music scene
(23:14) busking in Europe, learning Macedonian dance,
Živko Firfov Group, Destan Destanovski
(31:48) importance of humour in his solo shows
(33:17) duduk design and music
(39:57) Linsey’s early musical education and projects
(41:27) developing live looping in the early 90s, his solo shows
(50:30) rubber glove bagpipe
(54:36) Linsey’s current project going out to record in the forest with ambient sounds (his album of this music is on Bandcamp), also the frog sounds album
(56:53) Dva with Tunji Beier and now Beier-Griffin-Pollak trio with Philip Griffin
(58:23) Humarimba community music project
(01:09:16) Paranormal Music Society Romano Crivici and Blair Greenberg, and QWERTY with Peter Rowe
(01:13:47) MIDI wind controller Dangerous Song project with demonstration using animal sounds
(01:33:26) Linsey’s drive to create instruments and connect people, his creative process
(01:37:20) Linsey’s decision to stop touring outside of Australia
(01:40:07) Linsey’s advice
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