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For the twelfth episode of “ All About Aesthetics” Mitch Hampton continues with  the discussion of style, perhaps the most important element in aesthetics. He will introduce elements of visual culture into the discussion while retaining some emphasis on written prose.  As in the preceding episodes he will try and represent aesthetics from the most commercially successful areas of life as much as t...

Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton I seem to never tire of saying that among my many missions on this podcast is to have guests that are quite different than myself. Although Christine and I are both musicians and in the music world, I can't carry a tune to save my life and my truly awful singing voice is one of the main reasons I decided to purely instrumental music in terms of my o...

Buy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 In this concert, the ten year anniversary of his "Hard Listening" project, Mitch Hampton attempts to create a style of performance in which he performs his original compositions for solo piano interspersed with a talk about his experiences and philosophies over time. This is also our first episode of Season 6 and we thought...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 “Michael Merschat On a Life of An Architect” Inside this episode with host, Mitch Hampton By any measure I am an unusually outgoing person in public spaces. Indeed that is how we have come to have our producer for this show. And as I always like to say, some of our guests are people I have known personally and others I have not met until the d...

Special thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our recent "All About Aesthetics" livestream, episode 10 focused around Blake Edwards masterful film, "10". Enjoy and see you soon! More on this special stream ,here: For this, the tenth episode of the Aesthetics series, I will focus on the Blake Edwards 1979 masterpiece 10 with the large and unusually terrific cast of Dudl...

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our "Almost Summer" concert featuring your host Mitch Hampton and his wonderful jazz trio! For our great replay crew, here is the link to watch and share. You are all the best part of what we do! #jazz #haroldarlen #yipharburg #piano #steinway #trio #pianotrio #kennybarron #busterwilliams # #steelydan #blackfriday #donaldfagen #walterbec...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer". This is episode 3, Part 2 of 3 of the multi episode set.“Inside The Episodes: The Mar...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer". This is episode 3, Part 1 of the multipart special series.“Inside The Episodes: &quot...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account: venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer". This is episode 2 of 3 of the multi episode set. “Inside The Episodes: The Lee Purce...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer" . “Inside The Episodes: Lee Purcell Marty Davidson and Almost Summer” I have long love...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 For this, our fourth episode on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, the discussion reaches a climax for Volume 1. In this episode we will delve into the heart of Arendt's model of the thinking process itself - as well as some sneak previews for Volume 2 (Willing) which will commence in episode 5. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under se...

The ninth episode of All About Aesthetics will concern change in eras and the accompanying changes in technology and culture. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Listeners, today we get to share our talk with music LEGEND, Pete Christlieb !  We are so very honored to have him on our show and hope you enjoy and share it with us! Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton Pete Christlieb  has been among my favorite saxophonists and all around musicians for the past forty to fifty years at least. H...

Buy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Ham... On this, the seventh part of our Aesthetics series, I continue with a discussion of the power of artistic and cultural change from the early and middle 20th century until our own. The examples will come from music, prose and visual work, and from the commercial as well as the independent and alternative worlds. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disc...

Buy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Ham... On this, the fourth episode of my series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind we continue with a close reading and discussion of Volume 1, Thinking. More insights on this special, ongoing series from your host, Mitch Hampton: Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind” Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the...

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre” Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton “Among the many film influences upon my consciousness, the two early films of Wes Craven, Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes have to be included as important. Given that I think the "auteur" theory is partly corre...

Buy Mitch a Coffee: account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for Part 6 of your host Mitch Hampton's ongoing Aesthetic series! More to come on this series and thanks for making it a huge success with us! More on this stream, here:"This is the sixth part of my series on Aesthetics. Most of what I will discuss will be announced in the episode, but it mi...

In this, our second episode of the series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, we dig deep into the first chapter of the first volume; Thinking. More on this ongoing series, here: Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind” Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to wh...

Enjoy our recent livestream, "All About Aesthetics, Part 5" exploring the art of album covers and much more ! #design #commercials #advertising #television #celebrity #stardom #starpower #1970s #sculpture #popart #painting #1980s #2000s #2010s #popmusic #entertainment #recordalbum #vinyl #media #albumart 

Thank you so much for coming to our livestream concert featuring your podcast host, Mitch Hampton on piano with his jazz trio! Enjoy it as our bonus content to say thanks for being the best part of what we do! #CONCERT #Livestream #jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_GoRjbCSBk&t=16s

"The addition of our episode with  Marc Antony Mendez  makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside  Stephanie Persephone  and  Eddie Abreu.  Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest. One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questio...

"The addition of our episode with  Marc Antony Mendez  makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside  Stephanie Persephone  and  Eddie Abreu.  Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest. One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questio...

Listeners, enjoy a spicy Valentine’s Day pop up stream with returning guest and poetess, author, performer, Jane LeCroy!! Poetry, music and muses! You might recall Jane as a guest in our first season and here is a link to learn more about her work, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvfIRjIn-AM Inside this Episode with Mitch: “One of my dreams has always been to perform with poet and poetry tea...

In this, the third episode of our ongoing aesthetics series, I am leaving the "content" up to the spirit of this Friday, while dealing with the themes of prose, prose styles and written texts in general. #aesthetics #SusanSontag #FunkyFridayatFive

I popup and talk about music matters, live composing. #music #composing #NECA #MitchHamptonMusic #musiceducation