Bit Depth

Oxford comma! Leotie and Keathley (Bit Depth #124) join me for a fun conversation about music, trolleys, immigration, and more music! You can find Leotie’s music on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the places that you may stream and download music. You can find Keathley’s music on those places, too! Support your local artists! You can also find Leotie on Instagram @leotiemusic and Keathley @keathleym...

Leotie is Caleb Starr. Caleb Starr is Leotie. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Caleb and I talked about music, politics, spirituality, and Death Cab for Cutie. You can find Leotie’s song, “Karaoke”, on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the usual places you would stream/download music. You can also follow Caleb on Instagram @leotiemusic Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be...

Adam Marquez is back and we talked about music, memes, how the further fragmentation of niche subgroups creates ridiculous ideas, and how inherent traits in systems create emergent properties as a system progresses. Those are certainly all words. He doesn’t really have his own stuff to promote quite yet, but you can support some of the bands he’s played with (or you can be a creep and find him on...

Adam Marquez is a guitarist and musician, and of course, we talked about music - how he got started, major influences, and ideas in music that keep it enjoyable. He doesn’t really have his own stuff to promote quite yet, but you can support some of the bands he’s played with (or you can be a creep and find him on Facebook, I guess) :Rozlyn ZoraThe So Help Me’sPluto Rest in Peace Love never fails....

Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You can find him on Instagram @tyler_thomas_ig Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You can find him on Instagram @tyler_thomas_ig Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Patrick Conlon is a wellspring of knowledge, be it academic, or general life advice. I happened to express some random frustrations I had in mind, and he offered a lot of insights on how to navigate situations regarding shame and music. You can find Patrick’s stuff on his website and his Instagram:https://www.patrickconlonmusic.com/https://www.instagram.com/patrick_conlon_music/ Love never fails....

Patrick Conlon is a composer, violinist, artist, writer, teacher, and administrator. He is the Assistant Director for ACM@UCO and teaches there, as well as plays violin professionally for a variety of gigs. We talked about learning music, composing, what makes art important, spirituality, and his guiding philosophy. Although I already state in the podcast, Patrick has been a mentor to me in my tim...

After doing a second podcast and finding out that it didn’t record, I had to get Jonathan Edwards back on to do the second podcast. We talked about music, composing, communicating about our craft, and stuff we enjoy listening to, among other things. You can find Jon @tuneselectgo on Instagram. Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

I didn’t want to break up the (power) cycle of the Electric Pizza concerts, so here’s the third Power Cycle (Jonathan Edwards, Breck McGough, and myself) concert, which was on November 4th and titled “Remembrance”, inspired by November holidays. I’m not all that patriotic, but it was interesting to do. If you want to watch it, it’s on the Jazz Lab’s Facebook.00:17 - Electric Pizza Theme - Composed...

Since I was too busy to record a podcast for this week, I wanted to try something different this time around. This is a concert that I played on September 10th of 2018 with Power Cycle, an electronic trio that includes myself (Santiago Ramones), Breck McGough, and Jonathan Edwards. We’re all graduate music composition majors and we’re led by Dr. L. Keith White. This was the first concert of our “E...

Troy and I discussed race and how that interacts with our culture, how we can improve conversation, and what problems we are still facing. You can find all of Troy’s stuff, including his new song, “Headache”, on his website: http://troyanthonysmall.com/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Troy Anthony Small is a singer, teacher, arranger, and producer. He has an interesting background and we had a really fun and deep conversation. We get way into music and morality. You can find all his stuff, including his new song, “Headache”, on his website: http://troyanthonysmall.com/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Dr. Scott McAllister is a composer, professor, husband and father. He has composed for Wind Symphony (“Zing!”, “Popcopy”), Clarinet (“Black Dog”, “X Concerto”), and other instruments. He is the Director of the Composition department at the Baylor School of Music in Waco, Texas, and he also teaches composition. He was in Oklahoma for the premiere of “Flight of the Elephant”, a collaboration between...

Dakota and I started with discussing Star Wars, which has some rich lore. But then we get to what we really wanted to talk about, which was politics. Obviously, we don’t agree on everything, but it’s amazing what you can find that you agree on with someone when you get to sit down and talk like real human beings. I was glad to have the conversation. You can find Dakota’s bands on Instagram:https:/...

Dakota Green is the drummer for Kat Lock, The Sweet Talkers, and Pluto Rest in Peace. Normally, I get people on the podcast that I’m usually pretty friendly with and we end up becoming more friendly. However, Dakota and I have argued every once in a while on Facebook, and I didn’t like that. So, instead of sitting back and getting bitter about our differences, I decided that I wanted to get him on...

Breck and I discuss music, history, human senses, communication, and more music. Power Cycle (Jonathan Edwards, Breck McGough, and Santiago Ramones) has a concert on October 8th and it's a Halloween show, so bring your costumes that you've been wanting to wear all year! It's at the UCO Jazz Lab and it starts at 7:30pm. FREE PIZZA. FREE MUSIC. What more could you want? Love never fails....

Hello, and again, welcome to Bit Depth. I’m Santiago Ramones. I had recorded a podcast for this week, but I was unable to use it due to my own recording mistake. Instead, here’s a repost of a podcast with an old friend. He passed away earlier this year and I miss him dearly. The text from the original posting:“After the first conversation with Caleb, he and I spent a long time talking about stuff...

Breck McGough is a composer and singer that I know through UCO. We’re in a trio of electronic music called Power Cycle, which includes Jonathan Edwards (Bit Depth 126). Breck and I talked about music and spirituality. You can find some of his music on his SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/breck-mcgough Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

I didn't have time to record a podcast this week, so here's a rebroadcast of the bonus episode on a while back with guests Grayson Hamm and Walt Blythe of Space4Lease:Space4Lease is a psychedelic rock band from Oklahoma City, and this podcast features Grayson Hamm and Walt Blythe (and Caleb Gray in the background). Stick around till the end of the podcast and get to hear an EXCLUSIVE acous...

BJ Mendelson and I discuss privacy, social media, the Internet, artificial intelligence, politics, history, the future, and so on. This was an incredibly informative and fun conversation and I'm super happy to have had BJ on. You can find all of his things on his website, bjmendelson.com Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

BJ Mendelson is a former mall Santa, author, comic book writer, and public speaker. He's spoken at the United Nations and has written books on privacy and social media. I was super happy to have him on, and through the power of the Internet, neither of us had to travel halfway across the country. You can find all of his stuff on his website, bjmendelson.com Love never fails. It's going to...

LaRonn is back, and joining us is Ashley Parks, actor and creative. They both star in "9INETY", a 90's style modern sitcom. We talked about film and culture - how we're experiencing a bloom of great films made by great creators, but also how unoriginal other movies can be. We also discussed what it's like to be people of color in this day and age and what the future may hold. Y...

Joining me this week is LaRonn Marzett. LaRonn is an actor, screenwriter, director, and filmmaker. We discuss film, what makes it good, what it's like to be an indie filmmaker, and so on. He has a show on his YouTube channel called "9INETY", a comedy sitcom inspired by 90's television but set in the modern world. You can watch "9INETY" and his other short films on his YouTu...

Joining me this week is Aidan and Isabel of Sunphaser (Syzygy), and we talk about politics, mental health, education, and society in general. We really go everywhere with this one. You can follow Isabel on Instagram on her main account @isabelnonameherrera or her makeup account @isabelrosemua; you can follow Aidan on Instagram @aidan.mccool; You can follow their band @Sunphaser Love never fails. I...