{"id":184,"date":"2023-08-01T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:29:22","slug":"podcast-puzzled-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Puzzled Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A four-part podcast series on music &amp; art for the University of the Arts Helsinki <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/puzzled-together.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/puzzled-together.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/puzzled-together-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/puzzled-together-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the summer I had the pleasure of producing the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uniartshelsinki\/\">@uniartshelsinki<\/a>&nbsp;Puzzled Together podcast! Focused on the Research Pavilion events in June I was able to do four really inspiring interviews with artists and researchers &#8211; the interviews featured Nyokabi Kari\u0169ki, Dana Hall, Sonya Lindfors &amp; Maryan Abdulkarim , Leena Kela, Taru Elfving &amp; Leena Rouhiainen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4vaZqeExTYAOS33AmCzB4N\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode info:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. An afternoon with composer Nyokabi Kari\u0169ki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a beautiful time visiting Nyokabi at her Helsinki residency on Suomenlinna. She talked about reconnecting with her native language Kikuyu and exploring language as memory for her next album, her relationship to African composers especially Halim El-Dabh and learning how he wrote one of the earliest electronic music compositions (but is never mentioned in composition class), and what decolonising means in her practice as an artist (and how she e-mailed Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong&#8217;o &#8211; and he replied!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Decolonising jazz education with Prof. Dana Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this interview drummer, composer, ethnomusicologist &amp; head of jazz studies at Chicago&#8217;s De Paul university Dana Hall talks about the colonial forces that exist in jazz education, and how important it is to teach the broader societal and historical contexts that are associated with music genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Miksi kollektiivinen unelmointi on niin t\u00e4rke\u00e4\u00e4, Sonya Lindfors ja Maryan Abdulkarim?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olen ollut Sonyan ja Maryanin fani jo pitk\u00e4\u00e4n, ja varsinkin heid\u00e4n projekti We Should All Be Dreaming on inspiroinut mua paljon, oli kunnia saada haastatella heit\u00e4! T\u00e4ss\u00e4 jaksossa he reflektoivat projektin alkua ja kehityst\u00e4, miten afrofuturismi on vaikuttanut heihin, ja miksi kollektiivinen unelmointi on niin radikaalia juuri nyt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Mit\u00e4 on taiteellinen tutkimus?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opin todella paljon t\u00e4ss\u00e4 keskustelussa tutkimuspaviljongin ty\u00f6ryhm\u00e4l\u00e4isten Leena Rouhiaisen, Leena Kelan ja Taru Elfvingin kanssa &#8211; puhuttiin siit\u00e4 mit\u00e4 taiteellinen tutkimus on, Suomen kent\u00e4st\u00e4 ja mink\u00e4laisia mahdollisuuksia sill\u00e4 on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-part podcast series on music &amp; art for the University of the Arts Helsinki <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miia-sandpit.phonebox.opalstacked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}