Composer and Percussionist Alexis C. Lamb stops by to talk about her current percussion and composition duties and getting started on her composition doctorate at the University of Michigan (03:00), taking care of her physical and mental health (17:00), growing up in Colorado, her band “Local Youth”, and making coffee at a local trampoline park (26:30), studying at Northern Illinois for her undergrad and her work with Projeto Arcomusical (45:00), her 2 years as a high school band director in Illinois (58:20), heading to Yale for her composition master’s, teaching second graders in New Haven, and the local pizza situation there (01:08:30), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, with commentary on the descriptor “emerging” and other imposed labels, “bro-cussion” pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Colorado Rockies, and the band HAIM (01:20:30).
Finishing with a Rave on the 1995 film The Usual Suspects (01:59:00).
Links:
“When I Come Around” - Green Day
“I Love Rock and Roll” - Joan Jett
“Sunshine of Your Love” - Cream
“Sympathy for the Devil” - Rolling Stones
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest trailer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’w Nest - Ken Kesey
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
“Hands Like Lightning” - Liam Teague
Raves: