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Always Almost Famous: Earl Okin on Creativity, Music, Success, and How Craft Matters
Episode 14
What does a lifetime in music actually look like?
For singer, songwriter, guitarist, comedian, and raconteur Earl Okin, it begins with a wind-up gramo…
2 months, 1 week ago
“Everything I do is to be of service”: Butch Norton on Listening as a creative act
Episode 13
What does it mean to be a musician in service of others?
Butch Norton has spent a lifetime making other people sound their best.
Over the course of a c…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
“It’s Not Factual, But It’s True”: A Conversation with Robyn Hitchcock
Episode 12
Few songwriters have constructed imaginative worlds as distinctive, or as enduring, as Robyn Hitchcock. Across more than five decades, his songs have…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What is Art For in an Age of Distraction? Matthias Sturm on the Art of Paying Attention
Episode 11
Matthias Sturm: Music, Memory, & the Future of Listening
What happens to art when attention becomes scarce?
In this episode of The Sum of All Wisdom, D…
3 months ago
Re-Enchanting the World through Music: An intimate conversation with Karo Glazer & Michal Rosicki (Part 2)
Episode 10
Last time, we asked, “What happens when music stops being content and becomes an experience?” and we ended the episode with an invitation to “Close y…
3 months, 1 week ago
Close Your Eyes and Listen: Karo Glazer & Michal Rosicki of RED Producers
Episode 9
What happens when music stops being content and becomes an experience?
In this first installment of a two-part conversation, Dr. Scott Catey welcomes …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Finding Music in the Unexpected: A Conversation with Jeff Tripoli
Episode 8
In this episode of The Sum of All Wisdom, Scott Catey sits down with percussionist, composer, educator, and sonic explorer Jeff Tripoli for a convers…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Architecting Atmosphere & the Luminous Darkness of Sound: A Conversation with Matthijs Kouw
Episode 7
“How would you like to spend some time with music that can reconfigure what you think about yourself, about music, and about space and time?”
In this…
4 months, 1 week ago
Bigfoot and Terraformers and Stage Fright... Oh My! Part 2 of a Conversation with Andrew Hunt
Episode 6
Episode Summary
What does it mean to make music—and to keep making it—over a lifetime?
In this episode, part 2 of Scott’s conversation with musician An…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Three-Day Rule: Songs We Keep (and Why We Kill the Rest): A Conversation with Andrew Hunt
Episode 5
Episode Summary
What does it mean to make music—and to keep making it—over a lifetime?
In this episode, Scott sits down with musician Andrew Hunt for a…
5 months ago