By Ally Tayag Ricarte
PearlArts Studios
Looking to shake up your routine? We’re delighted to share our team’s recommendations to nourish you and your loved ones safely at home. This month we are showing some extra love to inspirational work by Pittsburgh-based artists who are producing resourceful and entertaining content online. Please enjoy and stay safe, everyone!
Recommended by Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl, Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers is “an electronic instrument company for musicians and sonic architects.” They also produce content online on YouTube! You can find past episodes of the livestream in the link below. Remember to check out our other sound recommendations in past PearlArts Round-Up posts.
Several times a week founder and chief designer Richard Nicols does a live-cast featuring everything from interviews with designers and artists, live modular synthesizer jams, Q&A or you can watch him build his instruments. VERY nerdy stuff! - Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl, Co-executive director and sound engineer
2. True T: Podcast
Social change-makers; Dez & Naheen, joined by nervy co-host J Coley Alston, Matoaka Winston, Dalen Makaveli, and a rotating special guest find comfort in uncomfortable conversation around the most challenging topics in urban culture, politics, LGBT+ issues, and more. — Throwing shade, and spilling lots of tea, the nervy cast serve freshly brewed perspectives from a Black Queer point-of-view.
What’s your favorite flavor? They’ve got the tea and it’s pipping hot! , Republicans and Democrats come to agreement around new law to provide Stimulus Packages to all Americans — Sarah Rosso (Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation) & Sarah Miller (Central Outreach Wellness Center) stop by with helpful information on to keep you protected from the Coronavirus.
Weekly on Thursdays at 8:00pm
CALL IN LIVE — 516 - 531-9533 Listen online at https://www.blogtalkradio.com/podcasttruet
3. Virtual SPI with slowdanger
anna and taylor of slowdanger are offering 3 virtual SPI workshops over the next week. An open-level movement practice to sweat, shake and move through our collective quarantine. Somatic images and grooves to move through the boundaries that contain us. Available to anyone watching from wherever they need to. For the live stream series we are adapting our 2hr practice to be 1hr, offering modifications for those practicing in small containers.
Facilitated and DJ'd by anna and taylor.
slowdanger will be accepting donations though they are not required.
Venmo: @slowdanger
Paypal: paypal.me/slowdanger
Tax Deductible Link
4. JAMpress Artist Watch Party
March 29 - April 3, 2020 will feature the 6 uniquely different and nationally-acclaimed artists of the JAMpress Roster - each passionate and driven to ignite imagination and examine the world through dance and music.
Curated artists whose work is featured through a JAMtime Watch Party, will receive a $30 honorarium for contributing their work to this JAMpress Management virtual platform.
Sunday, March 29, 2020 - Friday, April 3, 2020
5. How Things are Made
Recommended by production manager Ally Tayag Ricarte, we encourage you to check out the musical web series How Things Are Made. The musical trio also called How Things are Made is comprised of Pittsburgh-based artists Brian Riordan (collaborator of Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl’s Eko Chamber Collective), David Bernabo and Matt Aelmore. The trio has collaborated with countless of talented artists on improvised music which are available for purchase on bandcamp.
Check out and purchase their work here.
6. The Overview Effect with The Space Upstairs
The Space Upstairs will be interviewing resident artists and special guests every week. This live podcast is broadcast from THE SPACE STATION and previous episodes can be viewed on YouTube below.
Weekly on Saturdays at 12:00pm.