Nathan Wolek's guest appearances

Nathan Wolek

Art + Music + Technology

The Natural Curiosity Project

Christopher Reid

Matt Black

Matt Jackson

Geert Bevin

Devin Fleenor

William Fields

Pauline Oliveros

Brad Garton

Mark Vail

James Grahame

Nathan Moody

Marcel Wierckx

Christine Papania

Benjamin Forest

Rob Ray

OwlTail

I like people who draw from many different interests and skills to create the career that they ultimately pursue. Nathan Wolek is equal parts musician, programmer, researcher, wildlife sound recordist, and professor at Stetson University in north-central Florida. When he’s not creating music, or writing computer programs, or working with students, he’s in the field, recording everything from NASA rocket launches  to shells swirling musically in a natural spring. Listen and enjoy—Nathan’s quite a guy.

Episode 186 - An Interview With Nathan Wolek

I begin this podcast describing Nathan Wolek as a "self-made person"; by that, I mean that he was a trained musician, but found computer music and programming to be the locale for his voice. So he put himself in positions to have to learn computer systems, computer programming (including C programming for the Max SDK) and other "difficult" processes to be able to extend both his work as well as the people that he was working with. The result is a variety of important creations, from the Granular Toolkit (something that I've used extensively) to the Jamoma project. In addition to working on his own projects, he is also an active educator at the university level, and has recently been working with kids groups to teach creative coding in that environment. Nathan is an inspiration to me, and represents one of the futures of the tech-savvy artist.

<p>I begin this podcast describing Nathan Wolek as a "self-made person"; by that, I mean that he was a trained musician, but found computer music and programming to be the locale for his voice. So he put himself in positions to have to learn computer systems, computer programming (including C programming for the Max SDK) and other "difficult" processes to be able to extend both his work as well as the people that he was working with. The result is a variety of important creations, from the Granular Toolkit (something that I've used extensively) to the Jamoma project.</p> <p>In addition to working on his own projects, he is also an active educator at the university level, and has recently been working with kids groups to teach creative coding in that environment. Nathan is an inspiration to me, and represents one of the futures of the tech-savvy artist.</p>

Podcast 008: Nathan Wolek