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Rock That Doesn't Roll: The Story of Christian MusicCornerstone, Communes and Chicago Blues (ft. Glenn Kaiser)Glenn Kaiser has had a huge influence on Christian music as a musician, a festival co-founder and an outspoken thought leader. He was our top guest choice for our live taping in January of 2025 in Chicago.While Glenn Kaiser is a singular figure in the world of Christian music, we are aware that Jesus People USA is a triggering topic for some listeners. For a more thorough examination of Jesus People USA check out the book Grey Sabbath or for the perspective of abuse survivors from JPUSA, the film No Place To Call Home.This...
2025-07-301h 19
ASX BRIEFSKAISER REEF LTD (KAU) - High-Grade Gold Mining: Kaiser Reef's Path to ExpansionSend us a textUnlocking the riches beneath Australia's historic goldfields takes vision, expertise, and careful strategy. In this revealing conversation, Jonathan Downes, Managing Director of Kaiser Reef Limited, takes us deep into the company's transformation from small player to emerging force in high-grade gold production.Kaiser Reef now controls three underground gold mines across Australia's eastern states, with two currently producing and a third poised for reactivation. The recent acquisition of the Henty gold mine marks a watershed moment, bringing substantial immediate cash flow that could generate over $50 million annually at current gold prices...
2025-07-0908 min
Loving EverythingEP46: Andrew Kaiser - What Women Teach Us Andrew Kaiser, a fine art photographer and storyteller, delves deep into the lessons women have taught him throughout his journey as an artist, creator, and collaborator. From photographing the human figure to exploring the transformative power of resilience, this episode uncovers women's contribution to the wisdom of our lives, relationships, and communities. As a fine art photographer based in the Pacific Northwest, Andrew's work has been shaped by his upbringing in the California Bay Area, education at UC Santa Cruz, and passion for capturing humanity through various mediums like film, digital, and instant photography. Over...
2025-05-031h 42
Keen On AmericaEPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and PutinIn his new book AMERICA LAST: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn argues that American conservatives have always had the hots for foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Franco and Pinochet. And so, he argues, it’s no great surprise that contemporary rightists like Ron DeSantis, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson have all fallen so heavily for contemporary European enemies of democracy. It’s a fatal attraction, Heilbrunn describes this illiberal infatuation with autocrats like Orban and Putin. And it reflects the weakness, rather than the strength, of many on the American right. ...
2024-03-1941 min
Sinica PodcastHistorian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an excellent essay in n+1 magazine in April that captured how the eclipse of the "wet-market" theory of COVID origins and its replacement by the "lab-leak" theory illustrates how an old racial form — "Orientalism," which sees countries of Asia as backward, dirty, and barbarous — gave way to what's been termed an "Asiatic" racial form, which reflects anxiety over Asians as hyperproductive, robotic, and technologically advanced.3:05 – Andy's n+1 essay on the lab leak theory and the two racial forms6:26 – A primer on Edward S...
2022-07-0757 min
2021-09-0304 min
Live Let Thrive PodcastEpisode 170: Mendbnb; Maintenance for your Airbnb! w/ Andrew KaiserThis week we interview the Co-Founder of Mendbnb, Andrew Kaiser. Andrew tells us how Mendbnb keeps your short-term rental in tip-top shape with on-demand service to fix issues that may come up at your short-term rental. Anything from plumbing, A/C, or appliances going out.
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2021-08-1959 min
ZenGlop The Podcast183 Eternity's Sunrise ( William Blake)He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroyHe who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sunrise. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.html
2021-06-1712 minSinica PodcastJournalist Andrew Jones on China's space programThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space program. With the successful arrival of the Tianwen spacecraft in Martian orbit and the deployment of the Zhurong Mars rover, China is catching up quickly with NASA in space exploration milestones. But China’s space program also comes in for criticism for its opacity and for potentially dangerous practices — like the uncontrolled reentry of a large Long March 5B rocket in early May. Andrew gives the latest on China’...
2021-06-101h 15ZenGlop The Podcast182 : changing the Habitual BodyThe Habitual Body is like an exoskeleton of thoughts, preconceptions, karmic traces, emotions and aspirations. Some are obvious and familiar. Others are hidden and delicate but no less powerful. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.html
2021-06-1014 minZenGlop The Podcast172 why is karmaPerhaps Karma is embedded in the universe in the same way gravity, electromagnetism and Newton's laws of Thermodynamics. In which case why ask why? But still, I do. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.html
2021-06-0817 minZenGlop The Podcast171 Vonnegut and Homer - Stories of a Good DogMy dog (Reggie) died recently which makes me very sad and reminds of two other good dogs. Argos ( who waited for Odysseus's return and was the first being to recognise him) and Kazak, the Space Dog, who along with Winston Rutherford phases in and out of the galaxy in a Chrono-synclastic infundibulation ( Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan).More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)
2021-06-0118 minZenGlop The Podcast170: time, a corporate job and meditationThe quality of time, the 'kinds' of time that occur during a day at my corporate job helps to think about the moments in meditation. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https...
2021-05-0531 minZenGlop The Podcast169: socratic aporia and quantum uncertaintyThe state of Bafflement gives rise to realisation, wonders, concerns, confusion, theories, hypotheses and notions. I'd suggest that the intent of a dialogue with Socrates is to give rise to that phenomenon of Bafflement - rather than to actually answer any possible question. And that this Bafflement is also the necessary precursor to approaching the role of the observer in Quantum physics. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+t...
2021-04-2916 minZenGlop The Podcast169: mountains, birds, and meditationThe thinking mind is like the wind on top of Everest; the birds flying around a mountain. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA...
2021-04-2212 minZenGlop The Podcast168: a story of thought and no-thoughtI often clarify ideas for this podcast during my morning meditation. But during meditation I am trying to reach a state of equipoise. Surely, following thoughts and realisations is a Wobble away from that intent? Indeed it is. So how does the activity of 'ordinary Mind' fit with the objectives of meditation? Are we trying to halt thouse thoughts? Arrest the process of mentation?More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+m...
2021-04-2015 minZenGlop The Podcast167: dreams, sine waves, and a testable hypothesisA sine wave exists only because there is a periodic trough as well as the peak. Maintaining equanimity through those transitions ( inhale/exhale...wake/sleep....birth/death) feels like a testable hypothesis.More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.html
2021-04-1515 minZenGlop The Podcast166: meditation notes: Alan Watts, Being/Dying and a Head-Tailed CatAlan Watts wrote _The Book_ to plant a seed of an idea about the ongoing cycles in our Being. What he calls the 'head-Tailed Cat' of 'GoWithing'. How does this fit into meditation practice? Let's see!! More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/ze...
2021-04-0815 min
Thanks For VisitingFocusing on Preventative Maintenance, with Andrew KaiserBeing a successful host requires more than being reactive to issues — you have to be proactive and preventative. Andrew Kaiser of MendBnb chats with us to cover the top five maintenance issues that all hosts can prevent to improve the guest experience.Resources:mendbnb.comVisit https://mendbnb.com/thanksforvisiting/mend/59/ for 50% off your first monthRequest MendBnb in your city: mendbnb.com/newcity#STRShareSunday: @broadrivercabin_____________________________________________ Are you ready to master your hosting business without sacrificing guest experience? Click HERE for our free workshop! Thanks for Visiting is a production of Crate Media...
2021-04-0244 minZenGlop The Podcast165: Aurelius vs LarkinMarcus Aurelius mirrors Socrates in his analysis of death - - Larkin categorically ( and in quite wonderful poetry) disputes. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoO...
2021-04-0118 minZenGlop The Podcast164: meditation notes - the outcome will come outConfidence in the outcome of scrutiny, Authenticity and spontaneity will come out of the processes and practices of an examined life as surely as water on heat will boil.More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1)Subscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or sub...
2021-03-3010 minZenGlop The Podcast163: the joy of fictionWhy would I turn my efforts towards a 'magically realistic science fiction trilogy"? What indeed!Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2021-03-1115 minZenGlop The Podcast162: Socratic AporiaTalking to Socrates often left his talking partners bewildered, dazzled, unsure of what any language or thought might mean. We're given the word Aporia to describe this sensation. Socrates might say that a good life is one spent seeking out Aporia, and this podcast would agree.Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2021-03-0914 minZenGlop The Podcast161: meditation notes - a trend line?Can I create a trend line based on the resonant patterns that arise, abide and dissolve? From the smallest thought to the longest pattern I can be aware of - - if I dumped that information into a spreadsheet and calculated a trend, what would my confidence be in those results? Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXy...
2021-03-0511 minZenGlop The Podcastjournals, different types of...Sometimes I journal simply for the pleasure of feeling pen on paper ( an excuse to collect cool notebooks and beautiful pens). Sometimes I journal to track habits - I'm a fierce proponent of the premise that priority processes will make progress with 20 minutes a day religiously practiced. I journal daily as a matter of hygiene, to listen to the noisy part of my brain. those pages are discarded after monthly review. And I have a creative journal that sits beside the piano and next to my Drinking/Thinking Chair to capture fleeting ideas that may become podcast episodes, essays or new...
2021-03-0213 minZenGlop The Podcast159: Wordsworth The PreludeI have the habit on a Saturday afternoon to pour myself a bourbon, strike a match to light a pipe of Latakia tobacco and to thus apply myself to the study of whatever enthusiasm has taken me for the moment. In the instant most recent, I happened to read a choice selection from Wordsworth, which I will hence share my thoughts upon and a small selection thereof. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htm...
2021-02-2516 minZenGlop The Podcast158: meditation notes - three booksI recently rummaged through my bookshelf and came up with three books that turns out give a really nice sequence. Opening the Door to Bon by Nyima Dakota (an overview of the foundational practices for Bon Tibetan Buddhism)The Awakened One A life of the Buddha by Sherab Chodzin Kohn ( a wonderfully clear representation of the life and awakening of Gautama Buddha)What makes you 'not' a Buddhist a really serious exploration of the core realization of emptiness. I hope these books and this podcast help in your practice. More episodes on meditation notes...
2021-02-2314 minZenGlop The Podcast157: life is a storyI'm enjoying the process of writing fiction. That's a new kind of writing for me, I'm an essayist at heart. What if I approach the thorny problems of life, the undeniable constraints and condition - up to and including the way it ends - with the same pleasure, joy and commitment that I'm finding as I write a narrative with pencil and paper? Isn't that the answer to Sisyphus?Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zeng...
2021-02-2314 minZenGlop The Podcast156: creative block and creative spaceWhat are your experiences with 'writers block'? When I find myself not writing, it is rarely when I'm looking at a blank piece of paper. What gets written may end up discarded, set aside into the archeological pile of draft notes, or re-used in a different context. No, when I am not writing it is when I don't even sit down . The space is there. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlA...
2021-02-1612 minZenGlop The Podcast155: ZenGlop and the Miletian ArchaeI've been criticized for using the term ZenGlop - -that this silly word trivializes the substance and structure of my work. Fair enough, perhaps it does. But .... Reading about pre-socratic philosophers and their focus on the question of why something exists. And if it exists, what did it come from . (The Miletians, Thale Anaximander and Anaximenes) . The fragments that we have from 6th century Miletus suggests a lively discussion about whether there is a determinate single substance ( one of the elements) that serves as the source of all being. or whether there's some indeterminate substance filling that same purpose. It's a quest...
2021-02-1114 minZenGlop The Podcast154: notes on new compositionThoughts on recently finished composition for piano and electronics. Also a consideration of what it feels like inside an MRI, and whether that's sufficient aesthetic inspiration (give away the answer: "it is").Listen to the latest episode and subscribe: Apple iTunes or Android Hear 'Magnetic Resonance": https://youtu.be/SOYaVNwTC24Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/cha...
2021-02-0912 minZenGlop The Podcast153- meditation notes simplicity of available wisdomWe bring to each moment a set of insights, capabilities, strengths ( weaknesses) - - and even as this accumulated wisdom may be obscured by afflictive emotions, it is entirely sufficient to embrace a wise and compassionate reaction. Listen to the latest episode and subscribe: Apple iTunes or Android or download the episode directly: More episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zeng...
2021-02-0512 minZenGlop The Podcast152: music is distillation and distillerIf music is a still, then I am a fermented mash ready to be evaporated and precipitated out as an alchemical spirit.Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2021-02-0312 minZenGlop The Podcast151: what would be my last meal?Thinking more about Socrates and his final day described in Phaedo, I asked myself what my final meal would be. Turns out....Mahler and sparkling water. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2021-01-2813 minZenGlop The Podcast150: socrates massaged his feetOn the morning of the day when he would be executed, Socrates woke from a good night's sleep; massaged his feet; slowly placed his feet on the ground; and the spoke for the day about a good life. And you know what, I get that. If I knew I was to die tomorrow at sunset, I'd want to wake up well-rested, clear-headed and with the aches and pains massaged out. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net...
2021-01-2609 minZenGlop The Podcast149: meditation notes - moments of wonderKathryn (otherwise known as Mrs. ZenGlop) is taking a course online with Pema Chodron, We were talking at dinner last night and one of the things she said that resonated was the gift of wonder. That as we pay attention and practice, there's a real amazement that this moment is happening. At all! I know I get stuck sometimes in pushing to 'understand' the way my mind is working or the way to fit this realization or that understanding into some framework. But before all of that is this glorious beautiful breath, and a body pumping with Oxygen and air flowi...
2021-01-2210 minZenGlop The Podcast148: Do you hear what I hear?Probably not. We all have slightly different physiology, and that's particularly evident in our hearing especially as we age. Hearing tests will show quite different responses to frequency range. I'm deaf in one ear and with damaged hearing in the other, as the result of surgery about 15 years ago. I've seen my brain create sounds where none are there and modify sounds to match what my memory expects. it's fascinating, thrilling and disorienting. What does this mean in electronic music where so much of the output is intuited through exploring different sound modules? I have no idea what you're hearing and rea...
2021-01-2012 minZenGlop The Podcast147: art that facilitates as well as stimulatesArt - the aesthetic object, whether music, poetry, painting, landscape - stimulates a wide range of responses in us. What about art that needs to teach us what the response could be? Art that facilitates the response. More episodes on Ekpyrotic Art notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/ekpyrotic-art/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQB...
2021-01-1415 minZenGlop The Podcastmeditation notes - the importance of a teacherWhat I've been thinking about lately is the formulation "What Would do?". It's important to have a teacher in spiritual practice. The experience, direction, instruction, guidance, support are essential. But who - or what - is that teacher? We're accustomed in America to seeing spiritual leadership corrupted by materialism, sex and greed. What if the teacher here can be anybody....a monk, sure, but maybe also a martial artist, a piano teacher, a leader at work. Anyone - - in this particular point, I'm more interested in being able to create that moment of cognitive distance.So the ques...
2021-01-0713 minZenGlop The Podcast145: New Years Eve, Notre Dame and Jean Michel JarreWelcome back to a new season of the podcast. On New Years Eve, Jean-Michel Jarre broadcast a concert set in a Virtual Reality Notre-Dame cathedral. It was a wonderful show and resonated with the ancient, mystical architectonics of the space. More episodes on sonic psychogeography here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/sonic-psychogeography/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/chan...
2021-01-0515 minZenGlop The Podcast144: meditation notes - the availability of authentic action , immediatelyThere are no requirements to meet or hurdles that need to be overcome before we can choose to interject compassion into the immediate moment. I'll be taking a break for the end of year and I hope you are all able to enjoy some time off. There may be an intermittent podcast, or a livestream from the studio but otherwise I'm going to be dug in and writing. Cheers, all.more episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a news...
2020-12-1812 minZenGlop The Podcast143: reading Sylvia PlathI finished reading " Red Comet: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath" , a recent biography written by Heather Clark. Reading Plath's poetry is like being alive: strange, beautiful, elegant, upsetting. Tragic. Ecstatic. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-12-1717 minZenGlop The Podcast142: leap of faithA leap of faith? Or should it be a leap from faith? What about a leap from Realisation? A leap into what? Towards what? Is it a leap, or are we pushed?Listen to the latest episode and subscribe: Apple iTunes or Android or download the episode directly: more episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAn...
2020-12-1615 minZenGlop The Podcast141: meditation notes - thoughts on bodhicittaThe Bodhicitta vow is the aspiration to bring compassion and empathy in all action of body, speech and mind. I like the 'planetary gravity' metaphor. Some anomaly in the gravitational continuum causes the accretion of atomic material leading eventually to suns and planets. When we sit on a cushion and consider the Bodhicita vow, it is like a gentle indentation in space-time which over the course of lifetimes causes the accretion of compassion and empathy. more episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination...
2020-12-1113 minZenGlop The Podcast140: quotidien sounds - daily life remixWe are surrounded by noise, just about all of which we filter out either mechanically or mentally. But when I made note of unexpected and beautiful noises that arose throughout a day, in short order I started to have a sonic journal of surprising delicacy and emotion. Just using the recorder directly on my phone to capture anything that struck me as beautiful or unusual. Then I mixed it together for a short ( 1 minute) piece....but maybe over the weekend I'll get in the studio and work more with these sounds ( or others).for more posts on field reco...
2020-12-0914 minZenGlop The Podcast139: Magic Space Rockets, and an update on my operaPicking back up on my opera ("Love,Love,Bing,Bing" an opera about the Soviet Space Dog program). Focusing for now on the text and trying to figure out some more details about the characters, specifically the character of The Program Director. There's a history of bizarre occult influences on early Russian rocket science, and I'm digging up articles on Konstantin Tsiolkovskii - self-taught, possibly Theosophist, certainly eccentric and now recognized as the 'grandfather of Russian space travel'. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to a newsletter for occasional updates on the podca...
2020-12-0817 minZenGlop The Podcast138: meditation notes - stopwatch not a timer?It's time for my meditation practice to shift gears. The last several months have been a focus on a certain set of prayers and chants...I'm feeling like a shift to more open-ended insight practice. It occurred to me that my entire practicing life, I've started a meditation session with a timer set to some pre-defined amount. Could be 2 minutes (short, good meditation is excellent); 20 minutes ( a nice strong stable practice) or 40 minutes ( probably the longest I've ever sat in a single sitting). But what if I turned off the timer and set a stopwatch instead? As part of the observa...
2020-12-0415 minZenGlop The Podcast137: Is Sisyphus happy?How much did Sisyphus know about the nature of his punishment? Did he know that the rock was fated to roll back down? Or did he think he had a shot each time, but was just really bad at pushing rocks up a hill? Was he Happy?Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-12-0315 minZenGlop The Podcast136: Vera Lotar Shevchenko ( The Lost Pianos of Siberia)Vera Lotar Shevchenko was a French pianist who studied with Alfred Cortot, married a Russian - both arrested and sent to Siberia. She survived ( her husband did not) and later in the 60's was able to record again. There's recordings available to listen on Youtube. I learned about this remarkable artist after reading "The Lost Pianos of Siberia" by Sophy Roberts. (https://www.lostpianosofsiberia.com)Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.html
2020-11-2524 minZenGlop The Podcast135: Messiaen whimsical FM synthesisMessiaen considered birdsong a divine source of inspiration, one that happily coincided with his interests as a composer (tritone harmony, extended melodic reach, ametrical rhythmic patterns).Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-11-2412 minZenGlop The Podcast134: meditation notes - hack the "undermutter"The mind produces an ongoing chatter - what my teacher calls the "undermutter". Neither good nor bad, meditation practice puts this noise into perspective but also lets us question the content. That's the hack. Have a listen, let me know if you have any questions.more episodes on meditation notes here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube ...
2020-11-2014 minZenGlop The Podcast133: thoughts on electromagnetic artSome thoughts on a project I'm starting....to create a map of the Very Low Frequency (VLF) electromagnetic forms on Penn ave ( Pittsburgh). My initial curiosity; the interesting challenges of archiving and organizing information; and some speculation on the final output.Buy my book On Mortality and the Human ImaginationSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-11-1915 minZenGlop The Podcast132: The Aesthetic ObjectOne of the phrases I like to use is to call a 'Thing' an 'Aesthetic Object'. The 'Aesthetic Object' compels a confrontation with the vectors of scale through the human imagination. Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination: https://www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser+mortality+and+the+human+imagination&qid=1605609759&sr=8-1Subscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAu...
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2020-11-1507 minZenGlop The Podcast131: Larkin Required Writing"Required Writing" is a collection of journalism written by the poet Philip Larkin. I picked up a copy because included in the book is a transcript of an interview he gave with The Observer newspaper...I'd seen the interview referenced elsewhere and wanted to read the whole thing. some more thoughts on Larkin https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/the-larkin-project/Subscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other writing. https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/zenglop-the-newsletter.htmlAnd/or subscribe to youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub...
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2020-11-1206 minZenGlop The Podcast130: After an unintended hiatusWelcome back. I didn't intend to stop podcasting for the last month and I return with renewed inspiration. The music, poetry and meditation that I talk about in this podcast helps me to examine my life. I think it's really important to have things like that as companions in the imagination - to frame experience, articulate experience perhaps seek out specific types of experience. I hope this podcast helps you identify similar connections.listen to the latest episode and subscribe: Apple iTunes or AndroidSubscribe to my newsletter for occasional updates on the podcast, videos and other w...
2020-11-1013 minZenGlop The Podcast129: meditation notes - what is the good of renunciation?Renunciation is not denial. It is the embrace of creativity. the first step towards experiencing the nature of Mind. Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-10-0215 minZenGlop The Podcast128: modular synthesis, control voltage and a bit of Marshal McLuhanOne way of describing modular synthesis is to look at the studio as oscillators, filters and envelopes modulated by control voltage. To paraphrase Marshal McLuhan we flip to the simultaneous and extend the ganglia of our nervous systems when we compose in the electronic studio. Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.An earlier blog post I wrote about McLuhan: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/2013/03/mcluhan-auditory-space.htmlI'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confi...
2020-09-3013 minZenGlop The Podcast127: what is 'pataphysics?I learned a new word over the weekend..'pataphysics. The apostrophe is intentional and I presume silent when spoken. Do you know anything about 'pataphysics? If you do, please let me know what your study involves.Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on the related study of psychogeography here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/psychogeography/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-09-2809 minZenGlop The Podcast126: meditation notes - positive thinking ( why not choose strength, understanding and compassion)We all live in a landscape ( inner and outer) where negative emotions like anxiety, despair, anger reside right next to deep compassion, strength and understanding. Positive thinking begins with simple affirmations and extends to transformational visions ( with a passing reference to Albert Camus, of course!)
2020-09-2512 minZenGlop The Podcast125: field recording (remix the world)We live in this ecstatic wash of sound! Field recording - going out in to the world with a tape recorder - lets me capture specific sounds that end up in my music. Sometimes those references are apparent in the finished music. Other times, the source provides a hidden richness of harmony and timbre often far beyond what I could create independently in the synthesizer. Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.Here's another recent episode about field recording:https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/2020/09/118-bleepy-bleepies-sounds-in-everyday.htmlHere's my bandcamp site: https://zenglop.bandcamp.com
2020-09-2417 minZenGlop The Podcast124: Debussy - music without motifThe composer Claude Debussy is quoted as saying "I would like to see, and I will succeed self in producing, music which is entirely free from 'motifs', or rather consisting of one continuous 'motif' which nothing interrupts and which never turns back on itself". Why would he say such a thing? What does it mean? And what can we as listeners expect when confronted wit music that is never interrupted? (Yes, there will be an obligatory reference to Heraclitus).Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.I'm making a push to build up my youtube chan...
2020-09-2315 minZenGlop The Podcast123: meditation notes. Physical props, mental aspiration (and a poem by Emily Dickinson)What to do when the body struggles with the meditation posture? Give it the support it needs, the props you need. The body itself is a prop, after all....being manifest in the body is what allows us to practice sitting meditation! Ends with a reading of a poem by Emily Dickinson ( The Props assist the House...)Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.y...
2020-09-1816 minZenGlop The Podcast122: George Butterworth, AdumbratedThe kinora was an early form of home entertainment. If you've ever marked the corners of a book, then flipped through the pages to watch your doodles come to life - that's essentially how a kinora worked. There's a film of George Butterworth ( British composer, folk song collector) where he dances a Morris dance recorded in the silence of Kinora. There's a distinct feeling to the adumbrated object. Absence evokes a wierd kind of presence. It is the absolute most precise distillation of the object
2020-09-1719 minZenGlop The Podcast121: reading Larkin - Faith HealingThere's a deliberately ambiguous comma ( or missing comma) towards the end of 'Faith Healing', a poem which captures so much of Larkin's obsessions...including magisterial punctuation. Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1subscribe to podcast on Apple iTunessubscribe to podcast on Android
2020-09-1621 minZenGlop The Podcast120: meditation notes - remember the end state ( and start from there)At the end of a meditation session I often feel a sense of comfort, familiarity and insight. I'd like to be able to package that up and send it back to the 'me' that started the session. The pattern in a 30 minute meditation session recapitulates ( and anticipates) the pattern of a lifespan. May this also be useful to you.Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. ...
2020-09-1116 minZenGlop The Podcast119: messiness and creativityAs I stumble over piles of debris to get to my desk, and then frantically rummage for a necessary piece of paper --- I surprise myself with the dichotomy between how I think my desk/studio should look, and the reality of how it really is. Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-09-0914 minZenGlop The Podcast118: bleepy bleepies - sounds in everyday lifePlans for a 'sound-map' of Pittsburgh recording concentration of unique crosswalk signs..those things that bleep and bloop when it's safe to cross. In this episode I found a couple of old recordings of crosswalk signals from Delaware (US) and Rotterdam ( Netherlands).Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on field recording here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/field-recordings/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-09-0817 minZenGlop The Podcast117: music through the body to the imaginationWhat would sound 'sound' like if it was entirely a product of the imagination?Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-09-0422 minZenGlop The Podcast116: modular synthesis, prayer and mantraI just published a new video on my youtube channel, a recording of music from my modular synthesis studio (https://youtu.be/PcZ6vnbXA8M). I've started to use language that comes from meditation practice to describe these kinds of pieces. Do you think that kind of language is a useful way to talk about music ( this music, or any music?) Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to s...
2020-09-0218 minZenGlop The Podcast115: how to play Messiaen's piano music in three easy stepsIn an interview with Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen gives some insight into how he thinks about writing for piano.(hint - it's more than three easy steps...)Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1subscribe to podcast on Apple iTunessubscribe to podcast on Android
2020-09-0116 minZenGlop The Podcast114: meditation notes-visualisation (where tantra meets the absurd)The answer is to seek authenticity in both our actions and our thoughts.Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.more notes on meditation here: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/meditation/I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-08-2820 minZenGlop The Podcast113: In defense of the semi-colon (reaction to Malcolm Gladwell)I was listening to some lectures by Malcolm Gladwell where he is talking about the craft of writing. I'm a Gladwell Fan, an enthusiast. But he makes some disparaging remarks about the semi-colon that I could not leave un-remarked! (I refer to one of my videos about the semi-colon in Annie Dillard's writing: https://youtu.be/bOgTFa_87Qs.)
2020-08-2717 minZenGlop The Podcast112: looking for leys in all the wrong placesLey lines are visual alignments of neolithic monuments; mystical earth energy; deliberate alignment of occult architecture; any/all/other/none of these. Either way, in the modern city the natural ley line is overwhelmed by the electrical grid. In this episode, we listen to and comment on a recent field recording where I am walking down by the river sampling the VLF electromagnetic hum of the city power grid.
2020-08-2517 minZenGlop The Podcast111: adaptogenic mushroom coffee ( stoicism in cup)I use Lions Mane in my morning coffee. An adaptogen is a supplement intended to de-stress the system. Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a adaptogenic society?
2020-08-2119 minZenGlop The Podcast110: after reading "Lincoln in the Bardo" ( George Saunders)"Lincoln in the Bardo" is a remarkable piece of writing. The characters speak in epitaphs throughout, which makes reading the book a deeply involved experience. . The final the sensation, having reached the end of the book, is one of a generous and compassionate recognition of our condition. Letting go of grief. Yes, really remarkable.
2020-08-2022 minZenGlop The Podcast109 update on piano practice and compositionTime to check in and see what's going on at the piano. Updates on practicing and composition...perhaps a live feed of some new music?Send me a note at zenglop@gmail.com.I'm making a push to build up my youtube channel. Here's an easy link to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOlX6NXyQBABYljo1vAuHA?sub_confirmation=1
2020-08-1922 minZenGlop The Podcast107: reading "For Andrew Wood" (What would the dead want from us) by James FentonWe are blessed as humans to be surrounded by a poetic halo filled with objects of our choosing. Today I was reading this beautiful memorial poem written by James Fenton. For Andrew Wood by James FentonWhat would the dead want from usWatching from their cave?Would they have us forever howling?Would they have us raveOr disfigure ourselves, or be strangledLike some ancient emperor’s slave?None of my dead friends were emperorsWith such exorbitant tastesAnd none of them were so veng...
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TRIBE TALK034 TRIBE TALK - Seeking Joy with Shannon KaiserThis week I am joined by the incredible soul that is Shannon Kaiser.Shannon is an inspirational author, speaker, travel writer, teacher and life coach who left her successful career in advertising over a decade ago to follow her heart and be a writer. Since then she has become a best selling author of Find Your Happy, Find Your Happy Daily Mantras, Adventures for Your Soul, The Self Love Experiment and her upcoming book Joy Seeker which will be out on October 29th.Pre-Order Joy Seeker https://www.playwiththeworld.com/joyseekerbookbonuses/...
2019-09-0200 min
Sinica PodcastChina's 'reliable friendship' with Pakistan, explained by Andrew SmallThis week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Andrew Small, senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. Andrew is one of surprisingly few scholars with specialized experience researching China's relations with what it calls its "all-weather friend" — Pakistan. His book from 2015 on the subject is titled The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics. Kaiser, Jeremy, and Andrew discuss how Sino-Pakistani ties have been impacted by the recent election of Imran Khan to prime minister, Pakistan's economic difficulties, and the numerous projects that comprise the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC – one of the most important components of Chin...
2018-09-1456 min
2018-07-1730 min
ZenGlop The Podcasthe had a notionKaiser erases a white board and a phased glitch musical reworking of Terrence McKenna speaking about The Good Shit. Also...new intro/outro sounds!! show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast/
2018-07-1338 minSinica PodcastAndrew Chubb on Chinese nationalism and its influence on maritime behaviorThis week’s Sinica Podcast features Andrew Chubb, a fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. Andrew writes extensively on Chinese foreign policy, especially on topics related to maritime disputes in the South and East China seas, Chinese nationalism, and Chinese public opinion. Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Andrew the question of how popular nationalism in China shapes the country’s maritime behavior, and why its impact on policy is not as large as you may think. The discussion on China’s maritime activity involves disputes with Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, showing the increasingly sophisticated methods China must t...
2018-06-1456 min
ZenGlop The PodcastToo much of a good thing?Too much of a good thing? Wagner, Heidegger, Joseki and the authentic expression of ignorance. In which I also forget to use the wind-shield on my microphone, presenting a plethora of fricatives. Show notes at www.zenglop.net/podcastMy youtube channel Andrew Kaiser - YouTube aThe music used in this podcast: http://zenglop.bandcamp.com/track/rameau-phase-1
2018-02-1536 min
ZenGlop The Podcastkaiser plays with piezo and gershwinIn which I set up a new synth, and then remember playing Gershwin.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/episode-18.html
2017-07-0229 min
ZenGlop The Podcasta conversation that's been going on for yearsA wide ranging conversation with Andrew and Nick: the genesis of the Dry Trump; reading the Federalist Papers; Heidegger, Brian Eno and Prince. hole drinking pu-erh tea.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net
2017-03-0954 min
ZenGlop The Podcastfull integrity of the teacupMore details on The Dry Trump; George Michael, W.H. Auden; the Collapsing Vector; and two homegrown versions of Careless Whisper - one a phase shift remix and a second with Andrew playing “Careless Whisper on the Hurdy Gurdy.all show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html
2017-01-1941 min
Crowd Work CastEpisode 10 - Seizure KaiserThis week I stopped by the Lewisham Hotel to meet up with Comedian, Producer and booker, Seizure Kaiser. We chatted about movies, music and the origin of his name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-10-171h 04Sinica PodcastAndrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon ValleyWhat is the state of the art of artificial intelligence (AI) in China and the United States? How does language recognition differ for Chinese and English? And what’s up with self-driving cars? To answer these and many other questions, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Andrew Ng, founder and chairman of Coursera, an associate professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University, and the chief scientist of Baidu, where he heads up the company’s research on deep learning and AI. The discussion delves into the differences between Chinese and American engineers, entrepreneurial culture in China, artificial neural netw...
2016-09-0842 min