Ambients Podcast

**New Episode** Matt Evans: Brooklyn-based artist, composer, and percussionist.

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We hear about his background and training as a musician, his process in producing and performing music by himself and in collaboration with others, and a whole lot more. I also appreciated his more recent forays into teaching and actively supporting equity within the music community.

The music you will hear throughout this episode is from Matt’s record called a Touchless, that comes out June 25, 2021. This incredibly tender and vulnerable recording was written after the tragic loss of his girlfriend who died in a biking accident.

As I edited this episode I was struck with how sensitive, intelligent, and insightful Matt is. I think you’ll really enjoy this conversation with Matt Evans.

**New Episode** The Kiwi comes to America and becomes an All-American w/ Max Smith

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Max Smith is a three-time All-American track athlete who ran on fantastic Providence College teams in the early 2000s. If you’ve ever seen the video of Alan Webb breaking the American mile record in 2007, the guy who finished in second place? Max Smith. I couldn’t get Alan Webb on the podcast so...Max Smith it is.

Max runs us through his trajectory as an elite track runner from his early days in his home country of New Zealand where he started running to lose weight to be more fit for rugby. We hear about epic runs in the mountains of New Zealand where the local running community supported and guided him to eventually being recruited by Providence College, making the difficult transition to an entirely new country, and his long process of becoming a US citizen.

This conversation with Max Smith is about allowing our skill sets to be drastically improved by surrounding ourselves with hard-working, talented people, including our partners when raising children in this strange modern world.

EP 16: Haitian immigrant to Vogue and museums w/ Naomieh Jovin

Naomieh Jovin is a photographer and rising star out of Philadelphia with works displayed in The African American Museum in Philadelphia and in Vogue, among other publications. She takes us through her journey as a first-generation Haitian immigrant, losing her parents at the age of ten, and navigating the process of college admissions and financial resourcing, among other traumatic challenges. Naomieh tells us about her process of creating photos that not only represent her Haitian culture and family but also speak to the vulnerability of the human form and the dislocation and shame some feel about their bodies. This is an episode about significant challenges and pain being transmuted through photography and giving a voice to Haitian culture and personal struggles. Keep an eye out for her photobook "GWO FANM" coming out soon!

Support by purchasing a print of her work:
https://linktr.ee/njovn

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