TCI Transmissions

TCI Transmissions

The Creative Independent (TCI) is a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for all types of artists. TCI Transmissions offers an auditory taste of TCI—each Transmission will be an experimental soundscape of collected ideas, voices, and other snippets to help you think, create, and expand.

Episodes

A pep talk for doing it yourself

June 25, 2020 • 8 mins
A pep talk from Ziemba’s René Kladzyk for musicians planning to self release, and others who suffer from separation anxiety when releasing their creative work into the world.
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TCI IRL: Quarantine Supercut

May 1, 2020 • 15 mins
"Quarantine Supercut" Assembled and produced by Drew Daniel Mastered by Jeff Carey Created in conjunction with The Creative Independent and Kickstarter “Quarantine Supercut” was built from the submissions of many people who responded to a public call for field recordings of the sounds of life under quarantine. The first week there were forty sounds sent to the Creative Independent, the second week sixty more, the third week a...
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Quarantine Supercut (Edit)

May 1, 2020 • 2 mins
"Quarantine Supercut" Assembled and produced by Drew Daniel Mastered by Jeff Carey Created in conjunction with The Creative Independent and Kickstarter “Quarantine Supercut” was built from the submissions of many people who responded to a public call for field recordings of the sounds of life under quarantine. The first week there were forty sounds sent to the Creative Independent, the second week sixty more, the third week ano...
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TCI Transmission 09: Give Everybody Everything: The Financial Life of Bernadette Mayer

April 18, 2019 • 43 mins
This episode came out of a conversation inspired by our study on the financial state of artists today, and was produced by Rachel James and The Organist (a podcast created by McSweeney’s and KCRW) in collaboration with TCI. You can also find it on The Organist’s website.
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TCI Transmission 08: Guided studio soundscapes for experimentation and new media

March 15, 2019 • 31 mins
This Transmissions episode features an experimental mixtape created by visual artist, writer and podcaster, Sean J Patrick Carney. It is designed for the studio artist who feels trapped in a cycle of producing the same work over and over again. Find track titles for each soundscape and timestamps at https://thecreativeindependent.com/archive/#filter=.sort-transmission.
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TCI Transmission 07: Carried by currents that care

January 24, 2019 • 22 mins
This episode features a guided meditation for re-centering your sense of self with curator Jacqueline Mabey, and is part of our new series called Conditions. This meditation is accompanied by an essay, written by Jacqueline, called “The Spiritual Hunt,” which you can read at thecreativeindependent.com.
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TCI Transmission 06: Lonnie Holley on the possibility in a zillion grains of sand

November 5, 2018 • 26 mins
This episode features excerpts of a longer interview by Michelle Lhooq with Lonnie Holley. Lonnie is an African-American visual artist and musician. He was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama and has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. Visit thecreativeindependent.com for a full transcript.
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TCI Transmission 05: Dispatch from Basilica Hudson

September 5, 2018 • 32 mins
In this episode, Basilica Hudson's Melissa Auf der Maur discusses the uphill battle of establishing a sustainable cultural venue in the post-industrial city of Hudson, NY. The interview also contains various field recordings collected around Hudson.
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TCI Transmission 04: Guided meditation for channeling creative energy

August 27, 2018 • 14 mins
This episode of TCI Transmissions is a guided meditation by Lune Innate using singing bowls and alpha waves to channel creative energy.
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TCI Transmission 03: Perry Chen and composer Tyondai Braxton on finding creative focus

July 1, 2018 • 20 mins
This TCI Transmission features a conversation between artist and Kickstarter founder Perry Chen and composer Tyondai Braxton.
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TCI Transmission 02: Describe your website

May 13, 2018 • 5 mins
The second episode of TCI Transmissions is part of our Rhizome Seven on Seven series. We asked Rhizome series participants one question: How would you describe your website?
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TCI Transmission 01: Snail Meditation

April 9, 2018 • 5 mins
The inaugural episode of TCI Transmissions is a guided meditation created by Jon Leland that invites you to momentarily embody a snail, and imagine exploring its natural environment.
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