#CPPMusicCouches Sarah Wallin Huff (editor)

Welcome to the season finale of #CPPMusicCouches! This week’s guest is our very own podcast editor, Sarah Wallin Huff! Sarah is a composer and violinist. At Cal Poly Pomona, she is the lecturer of the History of Music Technology courses. She is also a graduate of Cal Poly! In this episode of #CPPMusicCouches, we will explore how musicians used technology to create music during the pandemic. We will also be taking a look into Sarah’s recent music projects, including the new album “Tonal Eclipse” and a soundtrack for the independent film “I Spy A Foodie”.

Sarah Wallin Huff website: https://sarahwallinhuff.com or https://linktr.ee/sjwallin

“Tonal Eclipse” album by Sarah Wallin Huff: https://sound-deliverance.blog/tonal-eclipse/

Soundtrack for “I Spy A Foodie” composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff: https://sound-deliverance.blog/tonal-eclipse and https://tequilamockingbird.productions/foodie

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly

Tom Luer is an adjunct professor of jazz and saxophone studies at Cal Poly Pomona. He is the director the jazz band and woodwind ensembles. In this episode of #CPPMusicCouches, we catch up on how life’s been through the pandemic, the obstacles of recording music remotely, and Tom’s “Project Popular”.

“Project Popular” by Tom Luer: https://originarts.com/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=82581

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly

Kevin Lyman is the founder of the Kevin Lyman Group, an event production and brand strategy firm. His most notable productions include the Vans Warped Tour and Lollapalooza. Kevin is a CPP alumni, having graduated with a degree in Recreational Administration.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut live events down in March 2020, Kevin was in the midst of producing the 320festival, a mental health awareness and music festival set to be held in May 2020 at Los Angeles. Despite this, the show must go on. In this episode of #CPPMusicCouches, we look into how Kevin transitioned the remainder of the 320festival into an online festival, an anomaly within his career of event production.

Kevin Lyman Group Website: https://www.klgroup.agency/

320festival Recorded Panels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiOQRBJQ2Mlxurs_DgFLhcw

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly

With the 63rd GRAMMY Awards® show coming up, you might be wondering how does an artist win an award. In this episode of #CPPMusicCouches, we’re sitting down with Dr. Shpachenko, the Department of Music’s piano professor in a discussion of becoming a GRAMMY® award-winning artist. Her 2019 piano album “The Poetry of Places” was awarded for Best Classical Compendium at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards®.

Nadia Shpachenko is a concert pianist, Steinway artist, and piano educator at Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Graduate University. An enthusiast of contemporary music, she has premiered over 70 works by various composers including Elliott Carter, Isaac Schankler, and Peter Yates (the latter was interviewed in the first #CPPMusicCouches episode). Prior to “The Poetry of Places”, her 2014 piano album “Woman at the New Piano” was nominated in the 58th GRAMMY Awards® in 3 categories.

Nadia Shpachenko Website: http://nadiashpachenko.com/

“The Poetry of Places” Album Info: http://nadiashpachenko.com/recordings-the-poetry-of-places/

Featured track within the interview and the outro: "Give Me Your Songs," performed by Nadia Shpachenko from The Poetry of Places (composed by Hannah Lash)

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly

Dr. Jessie M. Vallejo is a musicologist, violinist, and mariachi musician. Dr. Vallejo is the Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Mariachi Ensembles (Los Broncos y Los Caballeros) in Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Department. In this episode, we went over how to approach fieldwork in music, how she kept the school mariachis active during the fall semester, and baking pies!

Featured Works:

The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook Volume II (with recipes by Dr. Vallejo): https://bit.ly/2ZCDaDT

¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador (co-produced and liner notes by Dr. Vallejo): https://s.si.edu/3pBGM3y

Intergalactic Pachamama: Kichwa Cosmology vs. Western Astrophysics: https://s.si.edu/2OVbSX7

The Cultural Toll of the Cholera Epidemic in Otavalo, Ecuador: https://s.si.edu/3bwFlye

Revitalising language through music: a case study of music and culturally grounded pedagogy in two Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language immersion programmes (email Dr. Vallejo for a free copy): https://bit.ly/3k9zu5U

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly

Don’t fret! Go fretless with Buzz!

Dr. Darren “Buzz” Gravelle is a fretless guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. At Cal Poly Pomona, Buzz is a music theory professor and coordinator of the guitar studies program. In this episode of #CPPMusicCouches, we discuss the art of playing fretless guitar and how Buzz gained a following among guitar enthusiasts across social media.

This episode’s outro music is “Visions” by Buzz Gravelle. Listen to it in its entirety here: https://buzzgravelle.hearnow.com/visions

Buzz Gravelle Artist Page: http://www.buzzgravelle.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buzzgravellemusician

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fret_buzz/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BuzzGravelle

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/index.shtml

#CPPMusicCouches Homepage: https://www.cpp.edu/class/music/podcast.shtml

Theme music composed by Sarah Wallin-Huff and used by permission.

Student Host: Henry Ly

Editor: Sarah Wallin-Huff

Design: Teresa Kelly