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Watched It!80. Severance (S1-2) w/ Zoe“They gave us half a life and think we won’t fight for it.”Join Caitlin and her guest Zoe Sorrell (flute bestie on Instagram!) as they discuss seasons 1 and 2 of Severance! 👨💻🛗🐐Trigger/Content Warning: discussions of suicide, death, abuse, substance use, slavery, sexual assault, and related topics. For support and resources, please visit Ending Violence Association of Canada, RAINN, Canadian Mental Health Association and Mental Health First Aid.You can find Zoe on Instagram and Threads (@flutesandpoems) and you can listen to them on our The Good Place episode👋 Say hi to us on Instagram, T...2025-06-172h 31
On Coming HomeEp. 27: Family Meeting for Artists in the Age of FascismOn Coming Home is finally back! It has taken me a long time to feel prepared to speak with you all in the midst of a difficult personal season and a challenging collective season, so I finally sat down at the mic and asked myself: What is the truest thing I can say to you? In this episode, I share:How I'm approaching trump's second term differently than I did his first.The role I hope this podcast plays in rallying all of us.Why I'm curious about the entire notion of "business as usual."My...2025-03-0443 minOn Coming HomeEp. 26: The Art That Moved Us In 2024 (Part 2) - with Caitlin BergerWelcome to part two of On Coming Home's artistic end-of-year round up! I knew I had to invite on my inimitable friend and colleague Caitlin Berger, host of Watched It! pod, for this conversation of the art that most moved us in 2024. Think of it as a classic Best Of episode, only without any rankings or morality -- just two artists sharing the art that most affected them personally throughout the year. We don't even limit it to art that was released in 2024, as On Coming Home believes in the power of rediscovery and the longevity of art that...2024-12-3158 minOn Coming HomeEp. 25: The Art That Moved Us In 2024 (Part 1) - with Caitlin BergerWelcome to part one of On Coming Home's artistic end-of-year round up! I knew I had to invite on my inimitable friend and colleague Caitlin Berger, host of Watched It! pod, for this conversation of the art that most moved us in 2024. Think of it as a classic Best Of episode, only without any rankings or morality -- just two artists sharing the art that most affected them personally throughout the year. We don't even limit it to art that was released in 2024, as On Coming Home believes in the power of rediscovery and the longevity of art that...2024-12-2444 minOn Coming HomeEp. 24: Is desire the antidote to perfectionism? with Clarise FearnThis week’s episode features my conversation with artist and entrepreneur Clarise Fearn. Clarise is committed to creating spaces where all people can explore their own creative inclinations and intuitions. In our conversation, we talk about the role of third spaces, the importance of ease, and the way that centering desire and asking ourselves what we even want can help us to unlearn perfectionism and find deeper joy and satisfaction in our lives.
Clarise’s Bio:
Clarise Fearn is a Pittsburgh based artist and entrepreneur. Clarise has been serving the local community throu...2024-12-171h 08On Coming HomeEp. 23: Creating a culture of curiosity - with Matthew KennedyThis week’s episode features my conversation with composer Matthew Kennedy. Inspired by his punk and garage-band background, Matthew is committed to creating spaces where artists feel safe to question, to stray from tradition, and to stay curious. We talk about the paradoxes of being a teacher creating nontraditional spaces within traditional institutions, about how to better support artists in this time of rising fascism, and about Matthew’s incredible project of composing ten symphonies before his 40th birthday.
Matthew’s Bio:
The music of composer Matthew Kennedy (b. 1987) contains disarming simplicity, often s...2024-12-031h 15On Coming HomeEp. 22: Weaving art & social justice in community - with Amanda K. GrossThis week’s episode features my conversation with artist and community organizer Amanda K. Gross. We talk about fiber arts, social justice work, integration, and Amanda’s new book, White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change. This is a powerful conversation that suggests we already have the tools we need to build the more beautiful world; we just need the courage to put them into practice.
Amanda's Bio:
Amanda was born in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, to two white Mennonites. Raised in the social justice legac...2024-11-261h 10On Coming HomeEp. 21: Trusting your intuition and embracing softness - with Gaby CastroIn this week’s episode, I speak with clarinetist Gaby Castro about her forthcoming EP, music videography, the relationship between music and tarot, and the role of the arts in giving us a soft place to land.
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Gaby’s Bio:
Gaby Castro is an experimental, genre-bending, instrumental-focused clarinet & bass clarinet performing artist, producer, arranger, and educator. Her originally composed works combine her classical music training on clarinet and piano and a deep love for electronic, hiphop, video games, film, and instrumental music. She is a co-founder of the p...2024-11-121h 02On Coming HomeEp. 20: Holding hope and grief and love - with Claire HowardOn this intense and frightening week, I offer you this beautiful and delicious conversation with therapist, flutist, and yoga instructor Claire Howard. Claire's ability to hold both sensitivity and silliness, and her wisdom to know that grief, hope, and love all live in the same place, is exactly what we need as we navigate the coming days and weeks.
Claire's Bio:
Claire Howard is a therapist, flutist, and yoga instructor currently living in Dallas, TX.
Inspired by her experiences with burnout, perfectionism, and anxiety, Claire ardently pursues opportunities for connection, healing, and embodiment. T...2024-11-051h 21On Coming HomeEp. 18: Digital Organizational ToolsI'm back with a short and sweet solo episode today on the various digital organizational tools that I use to keep my workflow from becoming overwhelming. I'll discuss which tools I personally use, how I use them, and why my primary motivation is ensuring that I feel "off the clock" at the end of each day.
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http://www.patreon.com/zoesorrell2024-10-2917 minOn Coming HomeEp. 17: Brassroots democracy & stories of resistance and liberation - with Ben BarsonI'm thrilled to have Ben Barson on the podcast to speak with us about his essential work, including his new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. In the book, Barson uses the history and narratives of early jazz to explore the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the period that followed. Together, we discuss the ways in which art and music are inextricably political, the importance of radical imagination, and the weight and power of connecting to lineages of resistance.
Content Note: This episode discusses liberation movements and therefore includes discussion of slavery...2024-10-1557 minOn Coming HomeEp. 16: Healing through multimedia art - with Dr. Jessica PollackDr. Jessica Pollack joins the pod for a wide-ranging conversation following the release of Part of Me is Water, an album of contemporary works for clarinet with a companion book of original poetry. The project explores pain, resilience, trauma, contradiction, storms, and self-compassion. Jessica speaks to Zoe about her process in creating this project, the many themes it weaves together, and why it sometimes takes multiple art forms to get inside topics such as these.
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Spotify2024-10-081h 04On Coming HomeEp. 15: Creativity is a human rightWelcome to our very unofficial season 2 opener! I'm back after a long break due to illness to talk about my insistence that creativity is a human right.
I believe that accessing our own art, creativity, and imagination is a human right as essential as food, shelter, safety, etc. I also see a world with art at its center as a sort of North on my compass of how to build a more beautiful and more free world.
I also share a little about what's going on in my own life as I return to teaching...2024-10-0122 minOn Coming HomeEp. 14: The courage to be seen - with poet Abbi JinksPlease welcome poet (and coach and dancer and musician!) Abbi Jinks to the pod for a wide-ranging conversation on courage, transformation, sobriety, visibility, and so much more.
Abbi Jinks Poet speaks words that are raw and real, as well as being uplifting and inspiring. Abbi writes about things that might change your life and have certainly changed hers. She speaks about self-love, about fear, about resistance, choice and power, along with becoming sober, motherhood and clutter! She articulates her poems in perfect rhyme and her work will leave you feeling elevated and motivated.
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...2024-08-1346 minOn Coming HomeEp. 13: Identity and alchemy through music - with Leanna KeithPlease welcome the inimitable flutist-composer Leanna Keith to the pod to talk about finding one's place, defying expectations, building trust with audiences, and so much more. I hope you love listening to this inspiring conversation as much as I loved being a part of it!
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: “I didn’t know the flute could do that!” Their works focus on spontaneous sound creation, timbre-shifting, the mixed-race experience, queer theory, and the breaking of per...2024-07-301h 00On Coming HomeEp. 12: Is storytelling the most important skill of the 21st century?In this episode, I share my thoughts on storytelling as the only mechanism we have as humans for transmitting ideas from one person to the next, and why I therefore believe that discerning storytelling and story-listening might be the most important skills to cultivate.
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http://www.patreon.com/zoesorrell2024-07-2325 minOn Coming HomeEp. 11: Improvisation as community care - with Nick FagnilliOur first guest interview! Please welcome composer Nick Fagnilli to the pod to talk about embodiment, music education, living composers, the art of improvisation, and so much more.
Nicholas Fagnilli is a composer, teacher, and performer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Nicholas received his Composition degree from Ithaca College, and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Music Education program at Carnegie Mellon University. Nick believes that creating and improvising freely should be a normal part of anyone’s musical experience. His framework of creating and teaching is based on the natural characteristics of sound and harnessing these in...2024-07-161h 13On Coming HomeEp. 10: My story, what I’m working on, and where I find hopeIn this special tenth episode, I answer the questions that I'll be putting to guests on future episodes of the show. I share a little bit about my background, what creative projects I'm working on these days, what worries me, and what gives me hope.
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http://www.patreon.com/zoesorrell2024-07-0936 minOn Coming HomeEp. 9: For the multipotentialiteIn this episode, host Zoe Sorrell talks about the multipotentialite creative, the person who has expertise and excellence in multiple different fields or genres. Zoe considers how to navigate life as a multipotentialite in a world that often demands specialization.
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http://www.patreon.com/zoesorrell2024-07-0216 minOn Coming HomeEp. 8: Decenter social media (UNSCRIPTED)In this ~unscripted~ episode, host Zoe Sorrell talks from the heart about their contentious relationship to social media and their ongoing movement to decenter and deprioritize social media in their creative work.
This episode is for you if social media leaves you feeling icky but you're not quite ready to walk away altogether. Let's find a third way together.
If this episode means something to you, it would mean the world to us if you consider following the show and leaving a review. Thanks so much!
Follow along with the...2024-06-2540 minOn Coming HomeEp. 7: How to sell your art as an anti-capitalistIn this episode, host Zoe Sorrell explores how to be a thriving artist who sells products and services while maintaining anticapitalist values.
Zoe posits that sales under capitalism are uniquely violent because they rely on endless accumulation and the promise of a New Way of Being. But by grounding in enoughness and transparency, artists can lead the way in crafting more humanized ways of buying and selling.
Journal prompts for exploring this topic further:
How do/will you know when you have enough?
What does enoughness feel like in your body?
...2024-06-1824 minOn Coming HomeEp. 6: Your practice questions answeredThis episode is the final installment of our 3-part series on practicing a musical instrument.
In this episode, host Zoe Sorrell answers community members' questions about the radical art of practicing, including:
How to stay consistent and avoid discouragement.
What to do if you're having a bad day.
How to warm up before practicing.
How to organize practice time.
Whether or not to use a metronome.
How to rediscover the creative spark when you're losing motivation.
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2024-06-0427 minOn Coming HomeEp. 5: Tools for practicing a musical instrumentThis episode is Part 2 of a 3-part series on practicing a musical instrument.
In today's episode, host Zoe Sorrell shares three specific tools for practicing a musical instrument: sectioning, too slow to fail, and musical storytelling. Zoe explains the neuroscience behind these tools, why they work, and how to use them to make practicing the most easeful and enjoyable part of your creative process.
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Support...2024-05-2834 minOn Coming HomeEp. 4: The radical art of practicing a musical instrumentThis episode is Part 1 of a 3-part series on practicing a musical instrument.
In today's episode, host Zoe Sorrell unpacks the toxicity of some conventional wisdom around music practicing and shares their personal approach to scheduling, starting, and structuring practice sessions.
Send Zoe your practice questions on Instagram or Threads @flutesandpoems.
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www.zoesorrell.com/jack-the-bear2024-05-2138 minOn Coming HomeEp. 3: It's ok to make art for other peopleIn today's short and sweet episode, host Zoe Sorrell pushes back against the notion that "real artists only make art for themselves" and explores the idea that artists can create in service to their communities as well as their own individual self-fulfillment.
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www.zoesorrell.com/jack-the-bear2024-05-1413 minOn Coming HomeEp. 2: Fall back in love with the creative process to thwart AIIn today's episode, Zoe explores what AI gets wrong about art, the relationship between the process and the product, and some tips for falling back in love with your own creative process.
This episode is for you if you:
Feel afraid about the threat AI poses to human creators.
Have found yourself not enjoying the day-to-day processes of being a creator.
Are seeking a reminder of the the importance of context, story, and humanity in art.
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https://instagram.com/oncominghomepod...2024-05-0728 minOn Coming HomeEp. 1: How do we come home to our humanity?This introductory episode introduces you to your host, Zoe Sorrell, and explores de- and re-humanization, why arts and creativity matter now more than ever before, and why creativity is a human right, leaving you with some tools to begin to come home to your own humanity.
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Watched It!38. The Good Place (S1-4) w/ Zoe“I guess that’s what the good place really is […] It’s just having enough time with the people you love.”
Join Caitlin and her guest Zoe Sorrell (flute besties on Instagram!) as they discuss all four seasons of The Good Place! 📚👍🌊
Trigger/Content Warning: discussions of death and dying, as well as mental health issues such as anxiety
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Video of the cast finding out the season 1 twist
👋 Say hi to us on Instagram, Threads, and TikTok (@watcheditpod), and via email at watcheditpod@g...2024-04-161h 29
Iain Dale - The Whole ShowSNP Westminster Leader Stephen Flynn takes your calls, Cross Question & is Jeremy Clarkson being 'cancelled'?SNP Westminster Leader Stephen Flynn takes your calls, Cross Question & is Jeremy Clarkson being 'cancelled'?
Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price and SNP MP Richard Thomson.2023-01-232h 22
Cross Question with Iain DaleSir Martin Sorrell, Zoe Williams, Jackie Doyle-Price & Richard ThomsonJoining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price and SNP MP Richard Thomson.2023-01-2349 min
Earbuds EngagedUpdates and ResourcesWe made it to Season Two! Casey and Alaina give a brief update on each member of the Ears Engaged team, share great humanity driven resources they've been thinking about recently, and reveal some details about EE's current online residency with Weinberg Terrace in Pittsburgh.
We love hearing from you! Send us an email at earsengaged@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @earsengaged.
Theme music by The Maplewaves!
Resources-
Meg Quigley Bassoon Competition: The Imperative of Community Engagement for Musicians
https://youtu.be/7sH-OxwFrgg
"The Art of Relevance" Free Blog, Nina Simon
http://www.artofrelevance.org/read-online/
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