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Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete ZambitoPete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 355 - Amanda Duncan (Part 2)Percussionist, Educator, Freelancer, Steel Pan Artist, and Santa Margarita High School (CA) Director of Percussion Studies Amanda Duncan returns to talk about her undergrad at CSU-Long Beach (03:00), her master’s degree from Northern Illinois (10:20), moving back to CA to start her career, and waiting tables (31:40), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including portions discussing Respect for Steel Pan, Dolly Parton, Harry Potter, cooking, and SIX The Musical (42:50).Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One (01:02:20).Links:Part 1 with Amanda DuncanAmanda Duncan’s websitePre...2023-07-2700 min
Strike UpEpisode 12: Yuko Asada and the Japanese Pan SceneJapanese-American steelpan builder, tuner, educator, pannist and arranger, Yuko Asada, discusses her life and career, some of the difficulties associated with pan building and tuning, and how steelpan is represented in Japan.
https://yukoasada.com/
https://www.niu.edu/music/faculty/asada.shtml
https://pan-mag.com/
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Art LivesSeason 3 - Episode 4: Yuko Asada
Yuko Asada is a Japanese American musician who specializes in the steelpan. She builds and tunes steelpans, composes and arranges music, teaches, and performs on multiple steelpan voices as well as the piano.In this episode Yuko describes her duties at Northern Illinois University, and how they have changed since the pandemic. She also speaks about how the pandemic has affected her artistic and personal life, and has advice for younger artists, especially those who study cultures other than their own.Some of Yuko’s most recent performance and educational projects include:Pan In...2021-01-1900 min
The Sound TestLIVE - 18/12/20 [Weekly VGM Radio & Podcast] (feat. Matthew Smith)For my very final show of 2020, I go big with an absolute iceberg of a broadcast. Thanks to the listeners, the playlist is full of cold, icy, christmassy tunes, but I put a little twist on my personal choices this week. You'll meet various ghosts of my Christmases past, as I introduce you to the games that have been particularly exciting presents over the years.
Excitingly, I'm also joined for a LIVE chat by Matthew Smith; journalist, and producer of "Amiga Power: The Album with Attitude", which pays tribute to one of Britain's best loved gaming magazines and...2020-12-202h 25
Singing Mountain, A VGM PodcastDiamond DustWhat if you celebrated Christmas in a 16-bit ice cavern? That's the mood this episode wants to create for you. In this end-of-year installment, I'm trying to get together the best of the less holly-jolly music from ice levels. Think crystal blue. Think sparkly. Think about there being nary a jingle bell in sight. And don't worry about sliding off a ledge and plummeting to your doom. Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music Track listing: 0:10 Bamboo Houses / Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian 2:32 Vanilla Dome / Koji Kondo / Super Mario World 3:58 Ice Caverns / David...2017-12-231h 02
Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIUPerforming Ponglang: Fusion Music for Thai Steel DrumIn this special fusion-music episode, Kanjana and I are joined in studio by Thai music director Chamni Sripraram and steel drum composer Yuko Asada. Together we learn about the process of fusing these dynamic and diverse music traditions. After our conversation, stay tuned to hear the world premiere performance of Ponglang music for steel pan2017-04-171h 00