Shows
Carmina's CantataBonus Episode - On Music and EmotionsIn this bonus episode podcast host, Carmina Masoliver, offers her research on music and emotions, sharing her reflections and asking the audience to forgive any dodgy pronunciation. Texts quoted include the following: Music and the Emotions: The Philosophical Theories by Malcolm Budd, The Physics and Psychophysics of Music by Juan R Roederer, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, and Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications, edited by Patrik N Jaslin and John A. Sloboda.
https://beacons.ai/carminamasoliver
2022-09-0250 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Ann and Graham MarlowCarmina’s Nan and Grandad
In this episode, we go back to the inspiration of this podcast series as Carmina interviews her maternal nan about the family lineage of music and features audio from her late husband, Carmina’s maternal grandad, speaking to her mum about theatre and music.
Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/al7tyk8eht6puav/12%20Nan%20and%20Grandad%20060422%20FINAL_otter_ai.docx?dl=0
2022-07-0140 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Brigitte AphroditeBrigitte Aphrodite is a neurodiverse punk poet, musician, writer, theatre-maker and intersectional feminist show-woman from Kent. She makes genre-crossing, status-quo defying, passionate multidisciplinary work which is free from pretension, is anti-hierarchical and aims to be accessible to all. During Brigitte’s formative years she toured extensively as a musician, alongside artists such as Kate Nash and Josie Long. Brigitte has written two critically acclaimed shows (featured in The Guardian, Elle, BBC News); My Beautiful Black Dog: a punk, gig theatre musical exploring depression and Parakeet: an eco-punk musical made and set in Margate about nature, young women and fighting fo...
2022-06-241h 18
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Antosh WojcikAntosh Wojcik is a poet, drummer and cross-disciplinary artist. He produces music as /weirdtoday and is a member of the collective FWRDMTN. His work explores memory, time & glitches. “Like James Tate, but drunk.” - Roger Robinson
https://www.antoshwojcik.com/
https://bandcamp.com/antoshwojcik
Twitter: @/weirdtoday
Instagram: @/weirdtoday
FWRDMTN
Twitter: @fwrdmtn
Instagram: @fwrdmtn
Rare Mammals
Twitter: @RareMammals
Instagram: @raremammals
Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dcfg7kgjccxcw71/10%20Antosh%20Interview%20-%20060422%20FINAL_otter_ai.docx?dl=0
Ment...
2022-06-1756 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Jemima FoxtrotJemima Foxtrot is a writer, theatre-maker, performer and musician who creates and performs extensively nationally and internationally. She has written several works for the stage as well as poetry commissions including for the BBC, Channel 4, and the Tate. All Damn Day, Jemima’s first collection of poetry, is published by Burning Eye Books. Jemima is a founding member of the theatre company Unholy Mess and the arts advocacy group Kindreds Creatives that supports adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse through creative workshops.
https://jemimafoxtrot.com/
Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2ow198ntti7npn/9%20Je...
2022-06-1042 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Caroline TeagueCaroline Teague is a London born and bred poet based in Brighton, who writes on grief, identity and how they come to terms with some harrowing realities of being human and being alive, in a style they term ‘tragic optimism’, hoping that the honesty through their writing can translate into something positive and comforting for someone else. They are the creator of the musical project ‘Caroline Smiling’ which blends music, spoken word and illustration to creatively communicate ideas around mental health and queer identity. Caroline hosts London’s only regular three-round slam, Genesis Poetry Slam, and is an artist in residen...
2022-06-0345 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Belinda ZhawiBelinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean literary and sound artist. She is the author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018), co-founder of literary arts platform BORN::FREE & experiments with sound as MA.MOYO.
https://soundcloud.com/mamoyo-971856996
Instagram: @ma.moyo
Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohutzm8vt727w71/7%20Belinda%20Interview%20060422%20FINAL_otter_ai.docx?dl=0
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Moor Mother
Twitter: @moormother
Instagram: @moormother
Matana Roberts
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Dilemma
Twitter: @OfficialDilemma
Instagram: @officialdilemma
Jayne Cortez
2022-05-2739 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Joshua IdehenJoshua Idehen is a British-born Nigerian based in Sweden. A spoken word artist and
musician, he has contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums ‘Channel The Spirits’ by The Comet Is Coming, ‘Your Queen Is A Reptile’ and the Mobo winning "Black Is The Future", both by Sons of Kemet. More recently, he formed Calabashed with Alabaster DePlume, a spiritual jazz crew who were recently named a 2021 one-to-watch by NME, and worked with LA electronic maestro Daedelus on the critically acclaimed mini LP, "Holy Water Over Sons". In 2022, he begins his journey as a solo musical artist, collaborating with producer...
2022-05-201h 14
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Chris RedmondChris Redmond is a writer, performer and musician whose work often focuses on cross-media collaboration. A regular at UK music and literature festivals, he has performed on BBC Radio One, BBC Radio Four, Sky Arts, BBC Scotland's Culture Show and Scroobius Pip's XFM show The Beatdown. Chris is the creator and host of Tongue Fu, where poets, comedians and storytellers perform with improvised music and films. In 2016, he toured ‘Animal (Are you a Proper Person?)’, a spoken word musical comedy co-written with poet Anna Freeman and the Tongue Fu band (developed with support from Bristol Old Vic's Ferment and Arts...
2022-05-1339 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - DizraeliDizraeli is rapper, poet and musician from Bristol. Though rooted strongly in hip-hop traditions, his work draws inspiration from old folk music, recognising the common ground shared by songs of the people from any point in history. Lead vocalist as Dizraeli & The Small Gods, the six-piece play their very own breed of psychedelic hip hop music, also featuring the world Female Beatbox Champion, Bellatrix.
https://www.dizraeli.com/
https://dizraeli.bandcamp.com/album/moving-in-the-dark
Twitter: @mcdizraeli
Instagram: @mcdizraeli
Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/36x0t2m4cnxhy0d/4%20...
2022-05-0632 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Malaika KegodeMalaika Kegode is a writer, performer and producer based in Bristol. In 2020, Malaika’s debut theatre show ‘Outlier’ was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic, and is also available in book format now. Malaika has been performing with folk inspired prog-rock band Jakabol since 2018. Together they have performed at music venues and theatre venues alike – bringing a unique and exciting blend of poetry and music to diverse audiences. Malaika’s work tells of how we can find beauty and hope through the darkness. Her overall themes of family, mental health, addiction and love always have an undercurrent of optimism and strength...
2022-04-2935 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Genevieve CarverGenevieve Carver is a writer, performer and arts educator . Her first collection, A Beautiful Way to be Crazy, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2020. This is also the name of her latest album with Genevieve Carver & The Unsung, a gig-theatre project she has been leading since 2016. With this project she has nationally toured two shows combining spoken word, music and theatre, celebrating unsung heroes and marginalised voices. Her second publication, Landsick, is also forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2023.
https://www.genevievecarver.com/
https://www.scenesaver.co.uk/production/a-beautiful-way-to-be-crazy/
Twitter: @Gevicarver
2022-04-2224 min
Carmina's CantataCarmina's Cantata - Kayo ChingonyiKayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize. He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode on Spotify and his most recent collection A Blood Condition is just out with Chatto & Windus.
https://kayochingonyi.com/
https://kayochingonyi.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/rqm
Instagram: @kayochingonyi
Track name: Darkstorm – Bittersweet featuring Kayo Ch...
2022-04-1539 min
Burning Eye PodcastResting in CirclesThis episode lands on Mother's Day (uk) so here is a poem by co-editor Bridget Hart, plus some exciting even updates and an recorded extract from Carmina Masoliver and her debut collection Circles (https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/circles-by-carmina-masoliver).
Learn more:
https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/circles-by-carmina-masoliver
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2020-04-0607 minBurning Eye PodcastSummer of 2017After the summer break, the Burning Eye podcast is back with some short interviews with Carmina Masoliver (She Grrrowls founder) at the Ed Fringe, and Shagufta K Iqbal (Jam is for Girls) at Shambala Festival.
burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/she-…he-anthology
burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/jam-…ufta-k-iqbal
Music: Wolf by Josh Armistead
freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Arm…dows_-_01_Wolf
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2020-04-0620 min