Song Pong

By Song Pong

Song Pong is a music discovery podcast featuring guests from around world who love music, art, culture, food and conversation. Song Pong is hosted by artist John Freyer and educator Bekah Fisk. John and Bekah invented the game "Song Pong" back when Spotify introduced collaborative play lists. There are only two rules to Song Pong - #1 - You can't double post and #2 You have to listen to the entire last song before you post a response. Join us each week for new episodes and check out the "Let's Play Song Pong" playlist on Spotify. Twitter - @playsongpong

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Episode 10 - Jason Alley

If you are new to Song Pong, follow us on twitter @playsongpong, check out our show’s playlist “Let’s Play Song Pong”, subscribe to our Anchor/Spotify exclusive podcast and check out/follow the OG Song Pong Games that inspired this Podcast - Oldsmobiles and Eldorado.

Jan 07, 202101:23:08

Episode 8 - Zarela Maldonado

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This week John and Bekah interview Zarela Maldonado, who is a development director at Partners in Health. We talk about her experiences with sound healing, her short lived desire to be an ethnomusicologist, and the connection between music and alzheimer's disease which led us all to think about what we’d put on our own memory jogging playlists. We also announce our first annual Facebook live Song-Pong-A-Thon on New Year's Eve from 8pm to Midnight.
If you are new to Song Pong, follow our show’s playlist “Let’s Play Song Pong”, subscribe to our Anchor/Spotify exclusive podcast and check out/follow the OG Song Pong Games that inspired this Podcast - Oldsmobiles and Eldorado.

Dec 30, 202001:08:31

Episode 7 - Marc Cheatham - The Cheats Movement #WeSeeIt

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This week John and Bekah interview Marc Cheatham, who is a writer, podcaster, radio personality and DJ - who also works in local, regional and national politics. We talk about his projects including #WeSeeIt and The Cheats Movement where he hosts conversations about all things Hip Hop, Richmond, Sneaker Culture……. “He keeps coming back with more and more hits….… “ Over the summer and into the fall The Cheats Movement published long form writing and photo essays on the important work being done in the streets of Richmond. We talked so much about Hip Hop that we are going to cut a bonus episode around the songs we mentioned which did not make it into our current game of Song Pong.
If you are new to Song Pong, follow our show’s playlist “Let’s Play Song Pong”, subscribe to our Anchor/Spotify exclusive podcast and check out/follow the OG Song Pong Games that inspired this Podcast - Oldsmobiles and Eldorado. You can also find us at playsongpong.com

Dec 30, 202050:43

Episode 6 - Michele Mitrani & Joe Cassidy of Forgetmenaut

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This week we talk to the band Forgetmenaut, made up of Bekah's friends Michele Mitrani and Joe Cassidy who live in upstate NY. When they are not making music or playing Song Pong, Joe and Michele work in healthcare and the judicial system. Joe is a County Court Judge and Supreme Court Justice (of NY, not the same thing as US) and Michele worked as the town historian of Trumansburg and knows quite a bit about the history and proper pronunciation of the first synthesizer MOOG, which doesn't actually have the expected "ooohh" sound in its middle. Think toad with an M and a G! We invited them to join the Song Pong Alumni Association because posting 2 songs was not enough song for their pong!
Check out their EP on Spotify

Dec 16, 202048:55

Episode 5 - Johan Lindquist

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This week John and Bekah interview Social Anthropologist Johan Lindquist from Stockholm University. We talk Indonesian click farms, the Billy Bookcase and all things IKEA. Also our Song Pong list take a turn to the Psychedelic and and some sexy slow jams before being saved by Johan with some post punk Swedish pop! - Here's all the cool stuff about Johan:

Johan Lindquist is Professor and the Head of the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Most of his research has been conducted in Indonesia, where he has studied migrant lives in an export processing zone, labor recruitment for international migration, and most recently the market for fake Instagram followers. Johan has also made a documentary film based on his research, has collaborated with John Freyer on projects dealing with IKEA, and was in the fall of 2019 an "interpreter" in Tino Sehgal’s work This Progress, which opened Stockholm University’s exhibition space Accelerator.

Dec 09, 202055:35

Episode 4 - Erin Wallace

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This week John and Bekah talk to the amazing Erin Wallace from Oakland, California. Erin is the VP of Integrated Marketing at the online retail juggernaut thredUP, the founder of of the award winning clothing line Hygge and the proud owner of John's “Let’s Bowl” belt buckle that she bought from him 20 years ago during John’s internet art project All My Life for Sale. We talk about our 2020 Spotify Wrapped lists, the elusive missing A in thredUP and about an obscure Swedish composer that somehow topped John’s Spotify Wrapped.

John and Bekah also mentioned two public Spotify playlists from their year's long song pong battles.... Eldorado and Oldsmobiles... Yes there is a card thing going on

Dec 05, 202049:02

Episode 3 - Georgia Freyer

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This week we talk with Georgia Freyer whose is a teenager who claims that our BPM's are way too slow on the "Song Pong". We also learn why John's DJ name in college was "DJ Clear the House" which might be self explanatory. That and we introduce next week's guest, Erin Wallace from ThreadUp. We have updated the Let's Play Song Pong playlist you can fine it here!

Nov 26, 202037:42

Episode 1 - Bobby Previte

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The inaugural guest for this week’s episode is musician and composer Bobby Previte.. We talk about the election, Burt Bacharach, the time Bobby was on SNL with William Shatter and share some timely music! You can check out our shared the playlist "Let's Play Song Pong" on Spotify.
Bobby sent a song to next week's guest Kemi Akinola from the the Brixton Poeple's Kitchen!
Here is a little about his AWESOMENESS:
Bobby Previte is a composer and performer whose work explores the nexus between notated and improvised music. One of the seminal figures of the 1980s New York ‘Downtown’ scene, Previte is the recipient of the 2015 Greenfield Prize for music and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2012. He has received multiple awards for composition from the NEA, NYFA, NYSCA, New Music USA, The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Music Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the American Music Center. Mr. Previte has been an artist-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, Civitella Ranieri, The Montalvo Arts Center, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, and nine times at the MacDowell Colony.
Also here is a link to his Patreon page: www.patreon.com/bobbyprevite

Nov 20, 202051:10

Episode 2 - KEMI AKINOLA of BE ENRICHED

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Kemi Akinola the CEO of Be-Enriched, one of the founders of the Brixton People’s Kitchen, and she’s the Labour & Co-operative Councillor in Wandsworth (a real life politician) - John met Kemi in 2018 when he did a project at Tate Exchange at Tate Modern in London where John's Free Hot Coffee Bike and Kemi's Brixton People's Kitchen Bike served hundreds of cups of coffee and more than 250 meals on Level 5 of the Blavatnik Building in London.

Here are some links to her AWESOMENESS:

https://www.instagram.com/brixtonpk/

https://www.be-enriched.org/

https://www.brixtonpeopleskitchen.com/

https://www.ted.com/talks/

Nov 19, 202033:50