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More Devotedly The socially-conscious artist's toolkit and pep talk.

More Devotedly is a gathering point for a community of people who recognize the power of the arts to create change, and who understand how to use that power.

All six episodes of Volume V are out now! Deep dive interviews featuring:A glass artist on the "choreography" of kiln-fo...
24/11/2021

All six episodes of Volume V are out now! Deep dive interviews featuring:

A glass artist on the "choreography" of kiln-formed glass sculpting.

A theater director presenting ancient Greek theater in Oregon's prisons.

A violist, ethnomusicologist, and writer on how she's reevaluating her relationship to practicing and teaching.

A guitarist on launching a music coaching business.

Portland's Creative Laureates on whether and how the arts can heal marginalized communities.

A concert pianist turned podcaster and entrepreneur on how "curiosity drives everything."

There's an incredible range of experience and perspective represented, something that will speak to almost anybody. Listen in to hear how artists are re-making or re-imagining their role in during the second year of the pandemic, and what they hope the future will hold.

Listen at moredevotedly.com or on your app!

18/11/2021

Podcaster and entrepreneur Kai Talim on what has been the driving force behind his pivot from a career in classical music to launching Skip the Repeat podcast and Persimmon Coffee coffee company.

Hear the interview at https://www.moredevotedly.com/episode/vol-v-ep-6-kai-talim/ or on your app!

17/11/2021

The latest season on Kai Talim's podcast "Skip the Repeat" focuses on "reinventors," people who have pivoted from the arts into entrepreneurship. After moving to Philadelphia and finding a job in a coffeeshop, Kai noticed something that he was curious about.

Listen at https://www.moredevotedly.com/episode/vol-v-ep-6-kai-talim/ or on your app!

16/11/2021

Episode 6 with Kai Talim is live today! We talked about Kai's history as a classical pianist, then a barista, then a business owner and podcaster. What drives that kind of life transition? "Curiosity," as Kai told me. Listen in!

Kai Talim wants to talk about curiosity. Douglas Detrick and this pianist turned podcaster and entrepreneur had a thoughtful conversation about how following our curiosity can lead to new directions in our lives. Biography Kai Talim is a talk show host, pianist, barista, content producer, and brand....

Hear the rest of what Portland Creative Co-Laureate Leila Haile said about healing others through their work as an artis...
12/11/2021

Hear the rest of what Portland Creative Co-Laureate Leila Haile said about healing others through their work as an artist on your app or at https://www.moredevotedly.com/episode/v5-e5-leila-haile-joaquin-lopez/

There have been a few moments in conversations with guests on the podcast that have stuck with me for a long time. This was one of them. I think I get used to people who do interviews to be endlessly positive, to insist that artists can do anything, against all odds. But the perspective that Leila offered here recognizes the limits of what any one artist can achieve, or even a whole generation of artists, when facing the enormity of suffering that Black Americans have suffered through the history of this country up to the present. But, what I really admire is that Leila, and so many others, keep trying.

Portland has new Creative Laureates, and I'm excited to share a fascinating conversation I had with them. Hear it at htt...
09/11/2021

Portland has new Creative Laureates, and I'm excited to share a fascinating conversation I had with them.

Hear it at https://www.moredevotedly.com/episode/v5-e5-leila-haile-joaquin-lopez/ or on your app!

"Take a nap," was the revolutionary (seriously!) advice given to a hypothetical exhausted artist, and to me, by Leila and Joaquin, and I think it was wise counsel.
I was struck by how these two artists were prioritizing healing in this conversation, rather than a more nuts and bolts approach to conceiving of projects. But, there are two things about that that make total sense, and I'm glad to hear them thinking this way.

First, it's covid times, in case you forgot. (I sometimes do forget what anything felt like before.) Second, when you are approaching something so abstract as a "creative laureateship," which could really be anything that that Laureate conceives of, setting a goal, even an abstract one like "healing," makes all the questions that emerge later on more much simple to answer.

04/11/2021

I like to try to represent opposing viewpoints occasionally when I interview guests on the podcast. Here I asked William Seiji Marsh to address the " industrial complex" question—the idea that coaches like him could be seen to be taking advantage of their clients insecurities. William's answer here is pretty simple, the services he's offering now are ones that would have benefitted him as a younger musician, and he hopes they could help others too.

Hear him sweat bullets as he answers this question (ok, that was a little dramatic) on the podcast! Listen at moredevotedly.com or subscribe on your app!

03/11/2021

Beating yourself up about mistakes isn't the most healthy or even the most effective way to correct them. William Seiji Marsh talks about how to take responsibility, and avoid the "downward spiral" of externalizing blame.

Listen to the whole interview at moredevotedly.com or on your app!

Hear the interview at moredevotedly.com or on your app!William (Bill) Seiji Marsh has been traveling the world with th...
02/11/2021

Hear the interview at moredevotedly.com or on your app!

William (Bill) Seiji Marsh has been traveling the world with the band Pink Martini. On one of those travels, Bill had an intense moment of self-realization on stage at the Seoul Jazz Festival. All those hours of hard work had gotten him to that moment, and, as he relates it, it was a pretty good moment.

He turned that feeling, and a lot of other ideas and experiences, into a coaching business called Musical Being. Listen in to this week's episode to hear Bill and I talk about that moment, the business, and how the pandemic has shaped the business and his experience of it.

On More Devotedly , we're talking a lot lately about reevaluating goals. Tanya Kalmanovitch, violist and educator at Ne...
28/10/2021

On More Devotedly , we're talking a lot lately about reevaluating goals. Tanya Kalmanovitch, violist and educator at New England Conservatory and The New School, has a few thoughts on that subject that apply to her personally and that she has shared with her students as well.

Check out the full interview with
Tanya Kalmanovitch on your podcast app or listen at moredevotedly.com!

Thanks to Nathan Langfitt for this bit of wisdom.

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The socially-conscious artist's toolkit and pep talk.

More Devotedly is a gathering point for a community of people who recognize the power of the arts to create change, and who understand how to use that power. The title of the show is inspired by conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein’s reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 when he said “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

The artists who will share their ideas and experience on this podcast are following that advice, but in many cases, they’re doing much more. Going beyond the traditional confines of artistic practice, they’re using new tools and tactics to realize a future that is more inclusive, more just, and more peaceful. More Devotedly seeks to help its community to recognize its power as messengers, warriors, and healers, and use that power in the cultural and political realms.