Dan and Steve take on any subject that interests them as dulcimer players.
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Asymptote is a global journal dedicated to literary translation, created by a team of writers and translators from over 25 different countries. In our new podcast, we explore the most fascinating, eclectic and unsung stories in international literature. Each episode travels far and wide to bring you interviews, readings and mini-documentaries from all over the literary world.
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Join us today for a heartfelt conversation with exiled Syrian author Jamal Saeed, author of the 2022 autobiography My Road from Damascus (ECW Press, Toronto). Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak recently sat down with Saeed, now based in Canada, to discuss his devastating short story, a highlight of our recent Summer 2024 edition. Written amidst the ongo…
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To American poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, translations of Greek poets from the lyric and philosophical traditions are an opportunity to “use the eye to break apart the mind and remind us that we have a mouth to sing another’s song.” In this new Asymptote podcast episode, Beachy-Quick and Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak discuss the ongoing res…
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Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Matthew Landrum on Faroese Writer Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir
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In today’s thrilling conversation with author and translator Matthew Landrum, Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak explores the compelling poetry of Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir and the renaissance of Faroese literature as spotlighted in Asymptote’s Spring issue. Nine Faroese authors from multiple generations are represented in our Special Feature organized i…
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The third Asymptote Podcast episode for 2024 explores a chapter in the life of Vladimir Nabokov during his time in the United States (where he became a citizen in 1945). With his spouse, Vera, and son, Dimitri, he travelled across the America West at the dawn of the mid-nineteenth century. It’s estimated that Nabokov chalked […]…
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In the second podcast episode centering on contributors to Asymptote’s landmark 50th issue, Danish-Norwegian author Kristin Vego joins Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak in conversation. Her story, “All Things Lovely,” as translated by Jennifer Russell, represents her debut in the English language. Vego’s story also arrives at a moment when Norwegian li…
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Esteemed translator David Unger joins our new Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak for a conversation with readings of the poetry of Jaime Barrios Carillo. Born in Guatemala City in 1954 and living in Stockholm since 1981, Carrillo is known principally as a writer and columnist. His Two Poems from the Spanish Language volume Ángeles sin dios (Angels Witho…
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It’s Steve Lehman’s final episode as our podcast editor, and we’re going out with a bang: a timely interview with the Ethiopian writer and translator Bethlehem Attfield. In this episode, Bethlehem talks with Steve about co-translating Mulugeta Alebachew’s short story “Heaven Without Prickly Pears” for our Summer 2021 issue. She also discusses the l…
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Summer has arrived (in the northern hemisphere, anyway), and today we’re heading to Iceland! In this episode, Icelandic writer Kári Tulinius chats with podcast editor Steve Lehman about growing up in Iceland, the advantages of a tight-knit literary community, and how writing poetry is part of what it means to be human. Then, Kári reads one of his p…
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Stephen Seifert goes solo for episode 93. Find out what's up.由Dan Landrum & Stephen Seifert
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Today on the show, the award-winning author and translator Padma Viswanathan joins podcast editor Steve Lehman to talk about her love for Brazilian literature, the connection between writing and translating, and how translation helps her form an even closer relationship to Portuguese. Afterwards, stick around to hear an excerpt from the short story…
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Join podcast editor Steve Lehman for a conversation with current contributor Anton Hur on his journey as a literary translator and his “Fictional Notes toward an Essay on Translation” that was published under the aegis of our “Brave New World Literature Feature” spotlighting the unique relationship between authors and their translators. Stay until …
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Dan and I catch up.由Dan Landrum & Stephen Seifert
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Is Bb warmer than C, or do you just need counseling? Butch Ross joins Dan and Steve for a discussion about tuning down and an odd Hungarian scale. Here’s a link to the Bb tuned dulcimer: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219135462201848&set=a.1577962213394&type=3&theater由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Russell Cook Joins Dan and Steve to talk about hammered dulcimer innovation.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Maybe you don't need a shorter instrument. Instead, try this technique for shortening long stretches like the 1-2-4. Also, Steve responds to Dan's test of the mid-side recording technique.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Steve talk about life a bit, missed opportunities and sleeping with podcasts before deep diving into the recording technique called mid-side. The podcast even includes an audio demonstration of how this technique creates a stereo field with no worries about phase cancellation. After exhausting that topic, Steve gets geeky about capos.…
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Vrooom, vrooooom. The Dulcimer Geeks have restarted their engines.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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dan@dpnews.com, ashley@dpnews.com, aodulcimer@gmail.com, angie@dpnews.com由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Steve pick up where they left off.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Aaron in England with special guest Amanda Boyd who joins us to talk about collaborating of songs from the Cecil Sharp collection.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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In this episode we start out by talking about coaching versus teaching. Seifert shows up, we meander as usual, and then Aaron opens a bottle of scotch. Things pretty much go downhill from there. Welcome to our first two hour podcast. We hope you survive.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Alexa joins the Aaron, Stephen, and Dan as the geek on about dulcimer-tech and copyrights.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Why modes matter.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan, Stephen, and Aaron talk about getting caught up while the radar is turned off.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke discuss their show at Sarasota, Fl in a venue called Fogertyville. Topics include treating each show as an experiment and audiences as focus groups.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron and Steve blab without Dan. When the cats away...由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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How do you respond when a student says, "I don't want to play like you?" And, where does activism fit into the dulcimer community?由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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This was recorded in a room full of people playing music, PLUS the main recording device failed. Still, the conversation with Bing Futch, Lorinda Jones, David Beede, Guy George, and Dan Landrum was fun, so we decided to go ahead and share it.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Aaron live create an ethereal composition for an upcoming performance with dancers.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron O'Rourke, Dan Landrum, Stephen Seifert, Erin Mae-Lewis, Amber Rogers-Clark, Sarah Morgan, and Silent Shad Clark all sit down to talk about teaching and learning at the Black Mountain Dulcimer Festival.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Steve and Aaron get emotional and skinny.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Seifert, Landrum, and O'Rourke, keep it weird, have to use the bleep button for the first time, and still love dulcimers.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan, Steve, and Aaron show up with instruments and share their current projects.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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David Beede joins Aaron and Dan to talk about similarities and differences in learning hammered vs mountain dulcimer.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Stephen Seifert and Erin Mae host a chromatic dulcimer workshop.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Aaron in the dog days of summer cleaning roofs and playing festivals.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Did the mountain dulcimer just get associated with neo-nazis on a nationally syndicated radio program. Why yes, it did. (This is an updated version. The first upload had a glitch in the last 8 minutes.)由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Steve and Dan get serious about marketing and the fish are back, but now with plants.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Aaron invite you to a real practice session.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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My grandson, Barrett, joins me and Aaron to talk about the art of making things up.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Meet our significant others so you can know for whom it is you feel sorry.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Steve moves on and returns his fish, Dan flies back from Glen Rose and Aaron puts a nickel under the 14th fret.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Steve talk about productivity practices until they get distracted by the most versatile chord of them al, the m7b5.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron gets his repaired dulcimer back and it takes him a few days to get back on the horse.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron and Dan talk with Butch Ross about his latest recording project?由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron and Steve ramble for just under two hours about almost everything.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Aaron teaches Dan how to do his nails, but only on the right hand. This is about getting great tone when fingerpicking your instrument.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Dan and Aaron explore timbre, texture, and general thwackiness in hammering methodology.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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Recorded on St. Patrick's Day, 2017. We focus on playing Irish music and other obsessions.由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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C'mon. Would a little civility hurt us?由Dulcimer Geek Podcast
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