INTERLOCUTOR Interviews

Asterism is a collaborative project between skewed beatmaker Daedelus, experimental drummer/producer Dan Drohan, and technological boundary-pushing label Holography Records. In this interview, Daedelus and Holography Records founder Brian Baumbusch discuss how Asterism will allow listeners to customize compositions in unprecedented ways, transcending the usual composer/listener dichotomy.

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For more than a decade, Claudia Bitrán has been remaking James Cameron's Titanic through an extensive collaborative process that spans film, painting, sculpture, drawing, animation, performance, and scenography. Using lo-fi materials, deliberately visible methods of production, DIY processes, and spontaneous casting, Bitrán meticulously reconstructs the original film scene-by-scene at an intimate scale. The project h...

Sam Quealy is a fearless creative chameleon—singer, songwriter, dancer, rapper, and performance artist. Known for her unhinged tracks and magnetic, almost otherworldly aura, she leaves audiences unable to forget her. With the look of a pop star and the attitude of a rock star, she has exploded onto the scene with a deafening bang—and she’s only just getting started.

In this interview, Sam talks with Tyler Nesler about her influe...

A Southern-born American nomad, Sylvia Black has called many places home – from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest. Now based in Los Angeles, she continues to evolve as a singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, crafting productions that bridge the cinematic and the intimate.

Black delivers music that resonates with fans of the darker side of indie music, from underground club scenes to headphone rituals late at night. ...

Live, Laugh, Lube is an ongoing art project by artist and former art dealer Mieke Marple, probing in the superficial depths of social media with fellow clowns, comedians, and fools. 

A kind of "exquisite corpse” project in which comedians provide language that Mieke creates a painting with, then both create a video together for IG explaining the collaboration. Mieke then gifts the painting to the partici...

Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, and multifaceted creator. Keckler has performed everywhere from dive bars and DIY venues to NPR Tiny Desk, Centre Pompidou, and Lincoln Center. His story and essay collection Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published by Turtle Point Press.

His new performance piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts ...

Educator, activist, and organizer Amirtha Kidambi discusses her newly launched podcast, "Outernational,” her new album with her ensemble Elder Ones, New Monuments Live in Vilnius, out on November 14, and her upcoming performances with Elder Ones at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht on Friday, November 7. She also talks about her guest curation event at the festival on November 8, featuring performances by Dirar Kalash;&nbs...

Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, who works intersectionally with scent, performance, video, sound, and installation. His work is currently in the group show Winter Nights (Vetrnætr) at The Association of Visual Artists in Oslo, Norway, on display until November 2, 2025.

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Brooklyn-based filmmaker Peter Pavlakis discusses his debut feature, APOSTASY BLUES. The film focuses on two cult members who expect to be raptured at an appointed time. However, their leader appears to have raptured without them, taking their donation money with him, so the two members head out to look for him while they deal with their personal issues as they readapt to the secular world. 

The film will be shown at t...

Author and journalist Charlie Wells discusses his new book, What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation.

At the birth of America’s largest living generation, the outlook was strong: unparalleled economic growth, the emerging Internet, the rise of the cell phone, and a geopolitics that had allegedly reached “the end of history” all set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood at the dawn of the ...

Artist Dan Alvarado discusses his solo exhibition PANDORA'S SWIPE, a satirical take on the temptation, overstimulation, and hypersexualization of online dating apps. Opening on September 5 and running through September 22 at Bushwick, Brooklyn's Botanica Grove, Alvarado’s paintings, composed of digitally altered and collaged dating profiles, become a landscape of portraits across the ether.

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Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions. Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, geni...

Musician Bob Holmes of the New York-based trio Suss talks about his unique and ambitious Across the Horizon music series. Bob and Northern Spy Records invited eight innovators from the wide landscape of instrumental music to curate the first volume of Across the Horizon, which was released at regular intervals over the past year, culminating in a double vinyl, which is out now and available to Bandcamp subscribers of the series.

Estefanía Vélez Rodríguez (b. 1985, Mayagüez, PR) is a Puerto Rican artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. As a dual-tongued individual, she utilizes the symbolic language of painting as a bridge between many cultures and spaces. Her paintings formally address questions between abstraction, non-representation, simplification, symbol, and painting as a language with ambiguous structural limitations. Her landscapes meander and d...

Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Amanda Ekery collaborates with everyone, literally. Historians, artists, engineers, bakers, you name it. Amanda works with all to create projects that invite others to explore and share their stories. She weaves her experience in improvisatory creative music, research, and jazz into her compositions, workshops, and performances.  

Her new album, Árabe, is about Syrian and Mexica...

Friends since childhood, Eraserhood Sound partners, Vincent John and Max Perla’s unique songcrafting process includes sourcing and learning to play vintage instruments, and using reel-to-reel equipment to create the exact sound they are after. EHS also features an in-house boutique record label that specializes in vinyl releases. Operating out of the studio built for Questlove, EHS is uniquely positioned to carr...

In Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World, author Priya Vulchi explores friendships across history, continents, and cultures to show how friendship can open up new levels of community. Through her inspiring prose, Vulchi reveals that friendship, in the right hands, is a brilliant act of resistance.

Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. We are not taught ...

Artist Heather Benjamin discusses the works in her first solo show at NYC's Olympia Gallery, NEW STRANGENESS BLOOM.

Benjamin’s paintings investigate the hyper-vulnerable experiences of existing in a female body. Building on her formal printmaking background and a prolific, two-decade-long zinemaking practice, her autodidactic paintings emerge as self-portraits.

Through a diaristic lens, Benjamin’s figures—part goddess, part ...

JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, is a muralist, painter, and street artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Davis began making street-based artwork in the late 1990s while still in art school at the University of Georgia.

Upon graduating and moving to Brooklyn in 2000, he took up the nom de plume Hellbent, experimenting with various media and becoming known for his hand-carved plaques that he pulled throughout New York City and ...