Something (rather than nothing)
Why is there something rather than nothing? This podcast is a philosophical and psychological exploration into the act of creation (poets, musicians, writers, painters, thinkers, all of us) by: Ken Volante
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 304
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 84 - Paige Pettibon
Paige Pettibon is an artist based in Tacoma, Washington. Her medium focus is acrylic painting, but has extended to fiber art, beadwork, and other media. Paige is black, white, and Salish (from th…
00:44:51 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Episode 83 - Nickolas Rossi
Nickolas Rossi is a New York City based director & cinematographer. He attended Columbia College in Chicago for fine art photography and graduated from Portland State University with a degree in Soci…
00:34:41 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
Episode 82 - Kinneret Ely
Soprano Kinneret Ely is a freelance opera singer based in New York City and Tel Aviv.Kinneret covered the roles of Anna in Catalani’s Loreley and the Fata Azzurra in Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel …
01:16:03 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Episode 81 - Greg Clifford
A wonderful conversation with the talented Irish musical artist GREG CLIFFORDClifford’s style is an authentic synthesis of Indie-pop rock fused with electronic aspects and ‘classical’ guitar fingerpi…
00:47:57 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Episode 80 - Spoon Benders
The up and coming Portland-based garage-psych punk band, Spoon Benders released their debut album ‘Dura Mater’ in May 2020. Inspired by bands such as Goggs, the Pleasure Seekers, Black Sabbath, Thee…
00:42:43 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Episode 79 - Greg Larson
Greg Larson was a starry-eyed fan when he hurtled headfirst into professional baseball. As the new clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds, a Minor League affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, L…
00:45:01 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Episode 78 - Peter Bauer
This is a special episode with SRTN Producer and Editor Peter Bauer!This episode is quite the happening. It was recorded live at Warbling Creek Studios in the storied lands of Eugene, Oregon. Peter a…
01:35:06 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
Episode 77 Randy J Byrd
Randy J Byrd was a toddler in his playpen comfortably snuggled between two 15-inch subs that blasted the likes of Ozzy, Led Zeppelin and Van Halen. Randy’s mother loved heavy music and never said he …
00:39:23 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Episode 76 - Buddy Nestor
Buddy Nestor is an abstract painter who strikes a strange new chord with portraiture. Using photographs he takes of beautiful women, he creates grotesque, distorted creatures, their features uncomfor…
00:36:43 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Episode 75 - Metra Mitchell
Metra Mitchell received her early training at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY where she earned her Bachelor's of Fine Art in Painting and Minor in Art History on a full art scholarsh…
00:34:57 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Episode 74 - Laura Hopkins (Death Parade)
For this episode of Something (rather than nothing) we engage with the talented music artist and activist Laura Hopkins. Hopkins discusses her classical piano training, writing songs, growing up arou…
00:42:08 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Episode 73- Ghost Frog 👻🐸
Ghost Frog are four humanoids from planet Earth who started to make strange sounds together in the winter of star date 2013 in Portland, OR, USA. This interstellar transmission captured the words of …
00:39:44 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Episode 72 - Melissa Alford
Ever since she was a little kid drawing ghosts and graveyards at her desk in her parents’ basement, MELISSA ALFORD wanted to be an artist. Always a fan of the weird and the macabre, she discovered he…
00:30:11 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Episode 71 - Kiki Kolympari
"New perspectives can spring up from within the most insignificant everyday moments. A private photograph, a newspaper article or even a still frame of a movie can be the medium for another dimension…
00:38:17 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Episode 70 - Jainam Jhaveri
Jainam Jhaveri is a graduate in business management and degreed in software programming. Jainam started working when he was fifteen years old and worked in multiple corporate companies in fields like…
00:38:46 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Episode 69 - Ilay Karabay Solakli
Turkish artist, İlay Karabay Solaklı graduated from economics and spent her former years working in corporate companies and government institutions. Realizing that this lifestyle isn't satisfactory e…
00:33:33 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Episode 68 - Vincente DiSanti
Vincente DiSanti Founder / Producer / Director WOMP STOMP filmsVincente DiSanti moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and has since worked in several aspects of the film industry including live-action, featur…
01:10:27 |
Thu 31 Dec 2020
Episode 67 - Ken Volante
Ken Volante has been asking questions of SRTN guests for awhile. In this special episode, Rachel Lally, podcast host of Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other returns to ask the SRTN host the baffl…
01:01:32 |
Sat 26 Dec 2020
Episode 66 - Geoff Finan
Geoff Finan was the Writer in Residence for Dublin City Council for the Dublin North West area in the summer of 2018 and again in 2019 and is currently lecturing in the National College of Art and De…
00:45:54 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Episode 65 - Mary Cappello
Mary Cappello is the author of six books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour (a Los Angeles Times bestseller); Swallow, based on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection in Phila…
01:28:02 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
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