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The New York Neo-Futurists
The New York Neo-Futurists' on-going and ever-changing attempt to create immediate art continues! Hit Play on any episode to hear a selection of Neo-Futurist experiments in audio. New episodes every other Friday
Ready to DIE??? Hope you have your will and testament ready to go as Michael John Improta sets out to kill you with his jokes! When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe? Could be today!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time.
This episode was created by Michael John Improta. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Jake Banasiewicz. Sound designed by Anthony Sertel Dean. Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov. Special thanks this episode to Chris Heard, Annabell Mizrahi, Rob Neill, Julia Melfi, Mike Manship.
Content Warnings: alcohol abuse, death
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode: love, loss, biting, singing, barking, pooping, and learning how to (or not) say goodbye.
This episode was created by Joey Rizzolo. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Jake Banasiewicz. Sound designed by Anthony Sertel Dean. Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov The painting of Marty is by Jen Tracy - JenTheTracy on Etsy. Special thanks this episode to Kendra Duran, Brooke Carrick, Avery Rizzolo, Jen Tracy, Jim, Debbie, Allyson, Ken, and Marty McFly. No thanks to Dolly Parton (the dog, that is).
Content warnings: death, suicide
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode: Teen angst, older wiser lesbians, an obsession with Avril Lavigne, driving in the car with your crush, dead dads…MJ takes a page out of Alison Bechdel's book and attempts the impossible.
This episode was created by MJ Farrell Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Kate Jones, Anooj Bhandari, Katy Kay Chelena, Val Ramirez, Lucia Arias.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode: Chan’s putting her queer matchmaking skills to the test and is in hot pursuit of Julia’s soulmate...if soulmates even exist… Think you or someone you know might be a good match for Julia? Head to bit.ly/juliasbiglove and make yourself known!
This episode was created by Chan Lin Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Toni, Julia, Stephanie and the Hot Tender Jocks, Diana, Robin, Arif, Rachel, MJ, Lucia, the Pride Basketball League, Nightcap, Cubbyhole, The Woods, and all the queer singles who ever believed in Chan.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode: hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle…WTF how is a cow gonna jump over the moon? Who even wrote that nursery rhyme? How big is the average cow? Can you milk a bull? Is there such thing as “over” in space? Can a person sustain pure joy across their lifetime? Listen as Jake attempts to answer all these questions...and more.
This episode was created by Jake Banasiewicz. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Barrett and Sunset View Creamery
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode, listen as our own "Manship of La Mancha" attempts to make an NBA roster. Check out Mike's TikTok here.
This episode was created by Mike Manship. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Gary Belsky, Karen, Bee, and Calvin Manship, Jonathan Krieger, and Sharine Wittkopp
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode, we get alchemical, as Val looks to morph and transmute, claiming the power of gold and gas.
This episode was created by Val Ramirez. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Neo-Futurists Annie Levin, Amelia Bethel, Anooj Bhandari, Brent Whiteside, Carter, Chan, Greg Lakhan, Jackson Bird, Jake Banana, Katie Kay Chelena, Kyra Sims, Lee LeBreton, Michael John Improta, Mike Manship, Michaela Farrell, Rob Neill, Ryan Juda, and Yael Haskal!
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode, on his 10 year New Yorkiversary Brent retraces his steps, from his first apartment to the auditions that he took. He wonders, do dreams have an expiration date?
This episode was created by Brent Whiteside. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Michael John Improta, Carter, Jay, Rob Neill, and Brent’s Mom.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode, Anooj gets into fruit and fraud.
This episode was created by Anooj Bhandari. Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov Special thanks this episode to Anooj’s dad.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Take care!
This season on Hit Play, we are facing impossible tasks – one audio experiment at a time. This episode, Lee taps in to the history of one of New York's East Village's hidden treasures.
This episode was created by Lee LeBreton.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
Our sound designer is Anthony Sertel Dean
Our logo is by Gabriel Drozdov
Special thanks this episode to the New York Historical Society, NYC LGBT Historic Sites project, and the Mob Queens Podcast.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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We are coming back for season 4, but first, we want to share with you the work made by the students in Joey Rizzolo's course “Podcasting Non-Illusory Audio Art” at Oberlin College. These students studied Neo-Futurist forms of storytelling and told their own stories using a wide array of sound modes.
If you want to learn more about how we make our work, visit nynf.org to see when we are teaching our next workshop.
Hit Play Season 4: Impossible Task premieres on August 23rd, so stay tuned right here and tell your friends!
Thanks for hitting play and listening to Hit Play all season!
We wrapped season 3 of the show with a live episode recorded at Caveat in New York City's Lower East Side on February 13th, 2023. In the future from that moment, we listen back to the time spent there, then, now.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
3:12 - The Zippo Diaries by Cecil Baldwin 14:12 - Lullabies//An Invocation by Anooj Bhandari 24:47 - Where? (for Joey) by Shelton Lindsay 26:49 - From Taiwan, With Love by Kyra Sims 31:13 - One Day Walking Away NYC 2023 by Rob Neill 34:08 - Tour Guiding is One Part Knowledge and 999 Parts Bullshit by Mike Manship 44:28 - //CHROMATICITY THRU THE AGES// by Val Ramirez 52:19 - exactly one decade ago… by Anthony Sertel Dean
The album mentioned in the episode can be found here
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Ali Cronin
Thanks for Hitting Play all season and listening to Hit Play. This episode: some Neo-Futurists chose their favorite Hit Play pieces from the season to highlight. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
We will be wrapping the season with a live podcast recording on February 13th at Caveat on the Lower East Side of New York.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
1:18 - wherever, whenever, it’s yours by Hilary Asare
3:08 - The: The by Jake Banasiewicz
4:53 [CW: Redacted slurs] - Neo Monologue: Constructed (Or, Questions from the Classroom) — Part 2 by Val Ramirez
8:26 - 13 by Joey Rizzolo
10:04 - Directive to those who are… by Rob Neill
12:16 - To save time, I didn’t write a script for this play. An AI wrote it. by Anthony Sertel Dean
17:36 - a glance. a pain. an abstraction. ...... (a hope.) by Kyra Sims
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Hit Play is produced and sound designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode, we confront the big stuff: order, the beyond, and holiday travel.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
0:00 - Under Order Is Chaos. Under Chaos Is Order: A Hit Play Wrench by Mike Manship
3:05 - Clairvoyant Kitty WiIl See You Now by Rudy Ramirez featuring Ophelia
5:28 - Conversation with a cheesecake on a sunday night? (a recreation with Rob as Rob and Jeffrey as the cake) by Rob Neill featuring Jeffrey Cranor
9:55 - Artist Plan (Part 2) by Anthony Sertel Dean
12:54 - Falling Down The Well From: Chaos by Jake Banasiewicz featuring Rudy Ramirez and Rob Neill
14:34 - T(dom)ravelogue Decem(ized)ber 2022(ran) by Rob Neill featuring Anthony Sertel Dean, Mike Manship, Jake Banasiewicz, Jackson Bird
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Rob Neill
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we start super, we accept the mission, and we do this show. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
0:00 - Play This Audio Experiment Before the Podcast Intro OR What If We Had a Cheesy Hit Play Opening Theme Song (Superhero Edition) by Mike Manship
3:50 - Directive to those who are… by Rob Neill
5:58 - In Finite by Jake Banasiewicz, featuring Rudy Ramirez, Rob Neill, Mike Manship, Jackson Bird, and Lee LeBreton
8:08 - The Infinite Jelly by Rudy Ramirez [CW: Slurs]
12:10 - Artist Plan (Part 1) by Anthony Sertel Dean, featuring Julia Melfi [CW: death]
16:26 - This Doesn’t End Well, Even If It Doesn’t End At All by Mike Manship [CW: Death, Eternity]
17:56 - One Possible Affirmation by Rob Neill, featuring Mike Manship, Rudy Ramirez, and Jake Banasiewicz
19:52 - 13 by Joey Rizzolo
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Rob Neill
Take care!
This episode: odes, pep talks, and simulations. Our on-going and ever-changing attempt to create audio experiments for you continues. Content warnings in the full show notes.
Show Notes:
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: odes, pep talks, and simulations. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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1:58 - TODAY’S SIMULATION OF SELF-ASSISTED SURVIVAL MODE by Katy-May Hudson [CW: discussion of PTSD and depression]
4:36 - Rhyming pep talk for holiday anxiety by Hilary Asare
5:22 - ODE TO THE FATHERLAND by Rudy Ramirez
6:31 - Carolina (In My Mind) by Mike Manship, featuring Karen, Calvin, and Bee Manship, Jake Banasiewicz, Katie Kay Chelena, Winn Foreman, Joya Joseph
14:10 - wherever, whenever, it’s yours by Hilary Asare, featuring Katy-May Hudson, Mike Manship, and Rudy Ramirez
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Hilary Asare
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Top Gun. Communication without tone. And, Hilary listens to herself, for once.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, donate to our Best Of Theme Contest! You can also subscribe to the show, tell a friend, leave a review on your listening app of choice, or join our Patreon.
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1:47 - Six short messages, full of subtext, written about an abbreviated weekend full of long drives, with an extra hour spent mainly at fast-charging stations by Mike Manship, featuring Hilary Asare, Katy-May Hudson, Rudy Ramirez, and Anthony Sertel Dean
2:29 - experiments in intimacy #3 by Rudy Ramirez, featuring Mike Manship
4:52 - WHEN AMERICA’S GREAT WORKS OF PROPAGANDA MEET: FEATURING TOM SKERRITT’S TOP GUN MONOLOGUE & A SUPERCUT OF ALL THE LOL’S FROM THE FIRST 15 MINUTES OF A RANDOM EPISODE OF SELLING SUNSET by Katy-May Hudson
6:02 - frequently asked short question by Hilary Asare
8:22 - BUT WHY IS THE DOG LAZY? A Symphony // (Or, In Which Rudy and Chan Explore The Limits of their Voices Without Judgment) by Rudy Ramirez and Chan Lin
9:43 - Tiny message to an old friend at 2am by Katy-May Hudson
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Hilary Asare
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. bones, hauntings, and s-s-s-songs! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
3:28 - Spooky Scary Skeletons by Jackson Bird [CW: dysphoria, transphobia]
11:45 - tic tec tac by Kyra Sims
13:16 - Candles in the closet by Chan Lin
17:32 - Behind The C-Word: The Haunted Saga by Anthony Sertel Dean, featuring Robin Virginie, Katharine Heller, Rudy Ramirez, and Kyra Sims
28:25 - Skeleton on the couch by Michaela Farrell [CW: death]
30:44 - So there’s this song from 1969 called “It’s Halloween” by this band called The Shaggs…. By Kyra Sims, featuring Michaela Farrell, Jackson Bird, Chan Lin, and Joey Rizzolo
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Kyra Sims
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Afrofuturism via sound art, the AI Assistants speak up, and the optimism of the turn of the new millennium. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:20 [CW: generational trauma] - Your Journey with the New York Afro Futurists by Joey Rizzolo
6:56 - Intersteller Interstitial: Asking the robots about the future by Chan Lin
7:20 - Notes on Learning, Uncle Jack, and every other Thursday night at The Evelyn Hotel by Michaela Farrell
11:29 - Chan Imagines the Spaceship Taking Humans to the Nearest Planet in the Year 3022 by Chan Lin
15:25 - Going to My Spot by Joey Rizzolo
18:14 - a glance. a pain. an abstraction. ...... (a hope.) by Kyra Sims
21:58 - Two? Steps Forward, One Step Back by Jackson Bird
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Kyra Sims
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Pucker up. Get your fortune read and your bubble blown. And, Kyra and Mike search for a stranger. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:49 - stranger bubbly by Kyra Sims
6:30 [CW: chewing sounds] - Bubble Fortunes (with apologies to my dentist, my jaw, and misophonics everywhere like myself) by Julia Melfi
7:08 - While I was away (from the shower series) by Rob Neill
10:00 [CW: Islamophobia, Conspiracy Theories, Fox News] - The New New News Cycle by Mike Manship
12:30 - pop pop pop percussion by Anthony Sertel Dean
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Julia Melfi
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Mike needs a payphone, Kyra gets a card game lesson from her dad, and Julia leaves many voicemails.
If you want to cry with Kyra, we've got you covered with this Spotify sad girl playlist.
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1:48 - This is what you get by Rob Neill
1:55 - Sad Girl Playlist by Kyra Sims
5:01 - (212) 283-8707 by Mike Manship
12:15 - [CW: Reference to the Holocaust] Audio Guide to Unseen Pasts (edited for time) by Rob Neill
20:17 - twisted cord by Anthony Sertel Dean
23:52 - excerpts from a call with my dad: relearning Tunk by Kyra Sims
28:01 - Please Leave a Message: 10 Years of Voicemail Ramblings by Julia Melfi
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Julia Melfi
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Mike needs a payphone, Kyra gets a card game lesson from her dad, and Julia leaves many voicemails.
If you want to cry with Kyra, we've got you covered with this Spotify sad girl playlist.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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1:48 - This is what you get by Rob Neill
1:55 - Sad Girl Playlist by Kyra Sims
5:01 - (212) 283-8707 by Mike Manship
12:15 - [CW: Reference to the Holocaust] Audio Guide to Unseen Pasts (edited for time) by Rob Neill
20:17 - twisted cord by Anthony Sertel Dean
23:52 - excerpts from a call with my dad: relearning Tunk by Kyra Sims
28:01 - Please Leave a Message: 10 Years of Voicemail Ramblings by Julia Melfi
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Lee LeBreton, and Julia Melfi
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: What we have learned, what we are learning, and what we want to learn. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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2:01 [CW: Redacted Slurs] - Neo Monologue: Constructed
(Or, Questions from the Classroom) — Part 2 by Rudy Ramirez
5:35 - Dunbar Rises by Michaela Farrell
8:25 - [CW: ideation of gun violence & murder] Gun Play by Joey Rizzolo
11:40 - Quarantine Skill Check-In, or In Which I See If I Can Still Name All 197 Countries in Under
15 Minutes Via a Quiz on Sporcle.com by Jake Banasiewicz
15:17 - Automated Empathic Response Therapist by Joey Rizzolo
20:37 - Teaching Gratitude by Hilary Asare
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Hilary Asare, and Jake Banasiewicz
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: the avant garde, the deconstructed, and the untested. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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2:00 - The: The by Jake Banasiewicz
3:43 - Neo Monologue: Deconstructed — Part 1 by Rudy Ramirez
6:30 - Shelton while walking through a park in Munich Germany will now attempt to perform his favorite bits of the little mermaid in order from memory while exploring his thesis statement Ariel is the original Karen for after Cher and her west side story performance I will be performing all of the parts thank you. DEDICATED TO PAT CAROLL rip!!!! You were the best. by Shelton Lindsay
10:59 - Is this a play? by Michaela Farrell
11:07 [CW: suicide]- In which Jake helps Michaela interrogate her feelings, or, thoughts on being technically with Her. by Michaela Farrell
13:37 - 10 out of 10, No Notes by Hilary Asare
20:15 - In Which Joey and his Friend Chloe, Bored with the Nattering of the Grownups in the Next Room, Compose a Song Together Called 'Tree Cheese Playhouse' by Joey Rizzolo
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Hilary Asare, and Jake Banasiewicz
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: misheard lyrics, quotes, and aural delights. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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2:12 - Hearin’ a good morning by Hilary Asare
4:24 - What did you hear? by Shelton Lindsay
4:40 [CW: nudity] - HEAR THIS! The herd had a choice/ a redacted remembrance
by Nicole Hill
7:44 - It's summer, go places, see things, hear things by Anthony Sertel Dean
feat numerous summer travelers
10:31 - And I Quote by Mike Manship feat Jake Allen Miller
12:42 [CW: gun violence] - Price of Freedom by Hilary Asare
14:09 - Hearin’ a good night by Hilary Asare
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Hilary Asare, and Shelton Lindsay
Take care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: aspirations, successes, and creations! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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1:50 - I’ve Made, make, making it by Shelton Lindsay
2:30 - In the made for TV Movie of my Life by Nicole Hill
6:25 [CW: brief mention of gun violence] - Maker’s “Show” & Tell by Hilary Asare
12:41 - Indecisive creativity, What, it, Huh…
@ shelton_whimsy on venmo by Shelton Lindsay
16:38 - I haven’t made it home since 2016 by Anthony Sertel Dean
19:12 - Six Minutes and Twenty-Five Seconds Minutes of Reflections on Whatever Fame Is,
Accompanied by Advice from David Foster Wallace as Performed by an Uncredited Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old by Mike Manship feat. Jackson Bird, Chan Lin, and Jake Banasiewicz
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Anooj tries to find a place to relax, computers lie, and Ronald Reagan makes it out alive. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:05 - Independence Gay by Christopher Borg
9:01 [CW: gun violence, AIDS] - It’ll Trickle by Jake Banasiewicz
13:04 - trust the data: a simplisafe ad by Connor Sampson
14:30 - To save time, I didn’t write a script for this play. An AI wrote it. by Anthony Sertel Dean
19:50 [CW: drugs (light reference)]- A Presidential Character Arc with Absolutely Nothing Important Redacted by Connor Sampson
23:23 [CW: cursing] - A Spot in the Park by Anooj Bhandari
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: legibility, comfort, and desirability.
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2:00 - Context (Intro)
5:14 - A Short Series of Shorties About Shorts (part 1)
5:23 - The Authenticity of Fabulousness
9:20 - A Short Series of Shorties About Shorts (part 2)
9:33 - Conspiracies
11:55 - A Short Series of Shorties About Shorts (part 3)
12:01 - Boxers
15:12 - A Short Series of Shorties About Shorts (part 4)
15:32 - for almost legible queers
18:39 - A Short Series of Shorties About Shorts (part 5)
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2:11 - Guided Meditation: You're in the Third Circle of Hell by Yael Haskal
5:55 [CW: sex, death] - in 3s by Hilary Asare, feat Chan Lin, Katy-May Hudson, and Yael Haskal
7:48 [CW: explicit language] - A Conversation with my Inner Devil by Greg Lakhan
10:38 [CW: sex] - Stories of a Third Wheel by Chan Lin
13:47 - Micro-Plastics by Katy-May Hudson feat Aurora-May Hudson
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. Favorite seasonings, reseasonings, and a new season of Hit Play! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below. If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you! @nyneofuturists on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon.
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2:01 Re-Seasoning My Carbon Steel Wok by Chan Lin
4:54 In Which a New Yorker's Reaction to a Train is Collaged with the Previous Play
(for/after Joey Rizz) by Katy-May Hudson
7:55 [CW: explicit language] (space junk) : (welcome back) by Yael Haskal
11:09 One of the greatest honors of my life was in 2017 when Anthony Dean wrote me a song and I’ve never shared it with anyone because I didn’t want to look like a narcissist but that changes today, okay? by Katy-May Hudson
13:10 [CW: explicit language and drugs] Sir Gregolas Radio: Freelance by Greg Lakhan
14:06 Our Favorite Seasonings by Hilary Asare
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Our Season 2 Finale! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:19 [CW: language] An Aggressively Positive Rap Battle by Greg Lakhan
feat. Yael Haskal & Shelton Lindsay
4:56 Neo-News Alerts by Rob Neil
5:31 Rest Home by Meg Bashwinner
8:56 Neo-News Alerts by Rob Neil feat Yael Haskal
9:16 Bring it on: homo… by Shelton Lindsay
11:39 Neo-News Alerts by Rob Neil feat Greg Lakhan
12:00 [CW: Death/burial] Home(made) by Yael Haskal
16:06 Neo-News Alerts by Rob Neil feat Shelton Lindsay
16:29 Where you go we all are going too by Rob Neil
18:54 Neo-News Alerts by Rob Neil feat Meg Bashwinner
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1:45 [CW: suicide] Quality/Quantity by Meg Bashwiner
2:14 Deep Cuts of Varying Quality by Greg Lakhan
6:00 Quality/Quantity by Meg Bashwiner feat Shelton Lindsay
6:28 Synthesizing harmony through all the winter olympic events. by Rob Neill
10:18 [CW: suicide] Quality/Quantity by Meg Bashwiner feat Yael Haskal
10:48 99.9% by Shelton Lindsay
13:53 Quality/Quantity by Meg Bashwiner feat Rob Neill
14:22 INFLATEGATE by Yael Haskal
15:25 Quality/Quantity by Meg Bashwiner feat Greg Lakhan
15:38 Voicemails from Rob by Meg Bashwiner feat Rob Neill
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we’re coming to you LIVE from The Kraine Theater for all things VAMPS! If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, tell a friend, and leave a review on your listening app of choice. We’d love to hear from you- leave us a voicemail at (646) 820-4733. If you want to support in other ways, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. And be our friend on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
Neo Fan Fic 1: Vampire Romance novel by Michael John Improta
I might be a Vampire Interlude by Michaela Farrell
BUFF TO BUFFY by Shelton Lindsay
Viewampires Live: The Talk Show by Hilary Asare and Shelton Lindsay
Iddy biddy beings or the vampires of december 2021 by Shelton Lindsay
Knife Skills by Anthony Sertel Dean
10 sentences read in a Mid-Atlantic accent, with Foley sounds by Kyra Sims
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we look back and take stock!
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If you remember, then follow by Michael John Improta
Speaking a past discovery while Picking up the old desk you gave me by Michaela Farrell
Quick reviews for the gal on the go. by Shelton Lindsay featuring Luke Palmer
what I want on the other side of this soak in the tub by Hilary Asare
American Spirit blues by Shelton Lindsay
A review of a woman, written by the woman, read by a woman with the same birthday by Kyra Sims featuring Mara Wilson
Cyclical Thoughts on Joy and Doom by Michaela Farrell
How I feel about buying a return flight back to New York City instead of just staying in Puerto Rico for the rest of 2022 by Michael John Improta
How I like to imagine the author John Green would rate my butt, featuring audio stolen from his podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed by Kyra Sims
Another year’s here/Farewell 2021/Some Haikus we wrote by Hilary Asare
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: our favorite audio experiments from 2021! We reflect and revisit plays that premiered on Hit Play this year. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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10:03- greens by Julia Melfi feat. Greg Lakhan, Rob Neill, Anooj Bhandari, Kyra Sims, Anooj Bhandari and Léah Miller
11:22- On going back inside to shower at night by Rob Neill
15:17 [CW: description of animal violence] - A song for my visitors that they won’t comprehend by Michael John Improta feat. other musical friends
20:57- Record Breaking Part I by Anooj Bhandari featuring Michaela Farrell and Joey Rizzolo
23:43 [CW: high pitched tone] - In Which We Gear Up For Something Important by Michaela Farrell feat. Joey Rizzolo, Anooj Bhandari, Hilary Asare, and Colin Summers
25:37- i can still taste you by Robin Virginie feat. Kyra Sims, Annie Levin, Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, Hilary Asare
27:39- Hunger by Hilary Asare feat. Kyra Sims, Annie Levin, Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, Robin Virginie
29:38 [CW: death] - In response to the New York Times article that posed the question "How Do I Dress for My Pandemic Belly?" by Annie Levin featuring Katie Kay Chelena, Robin Virginie, Anooj Bhandari, Greg Lakhan, Yael Haskal, Krys Seli
31:42 [CW: explicit language] - Yael’s Big Ugly Play. by Yael Haskal featuring Katy-Kay Chelena
35:04 [CW 13:35: mention of sexual assault] - Why Women Aren’t Funny by Jaquelyn Landgraf
37:30 [CW: drug use] - Brokeboi ASMR Pt. 1: Bong Resin by Greg Lakhan
40:49 [CW: Mentions of death and dying] - Nocturnal Transmissions by Kyra Sims with Mike, Jessie, Ben, Sarah, and Garrett
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Horses, Sports, and Joy! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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3:01- An Alternative to Nestle Toll House Cookies for your Holiday Assortments by Michaela Farrell
5:23- Medina’s Spirit or Meg & Rob & friends talk horses (in 4 parts) by Rob Neill featuring Meg Bashwiner, Michaela Farrell, Anthony Sertel Dean, Hilary Asare, Sunil Yapa
6:03- Audio Experiments Experiments: Experiment #4 (True Sport) by Anthony Sertel Dean
11:28- And now, a short cuffing season PSA by Michaela Farrell featuring Meg Bashwiner
13:06 [CW: Birth, postpartum]- Her First Year by Meg Bashwiner
20:11- Jumping for Joy(s) by Rob Neill
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: what keeps us up at night. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the plays below.
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Little Song in 3 parts w/bell part 1 [CW: Allusions to death and dying] - Rob Neill
Nocturnal Transmissions [CW: Mentions of death and dying] - Kyra Sims with Mike, Jessie, Ben, Sarah, and Garrett
Little Song in 3 parts w/bell part 2 - Rob Neill
If the next 80 seconds represents the hours of midnight to 8am, consider this an audio map of our behaviors, some assumptions included. - Anooj Bhandari featuring the cast
Little Song in 3 parts w/bell part 3 - Rob Neill
Pigeon Tale [CW: Mention of illicit drugs, Gore] - Greg Lakhan
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode, we go cold turkey! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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[7:20: reference to racial slurs] - RE: NICK OR TREAT by Greg Lakhan featuring Kyra Sims
[9:20: mention of death and dying] - Trouble in the Works by Rob Neill
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode:fall memories, collections, and controversial self care.
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1:57- Recollecting Collecting by Anooj Bhandari
4:43- no matter the order, they all still linger by Kyra Sims
7:34- Math, Amphetamines by Mike Puckett
8:42- A Controversial Self Care Technique by Michaela Farrell
10:55- Non-Prescription Glasses User Manual by Anooj Bhandari
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. A ghost haunts Anooj, just two (?) Neos talking to each other. :), and Taste the rain-BOO!!! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:21: Ghost Facts* (play not sponsored by skittles) by Mike Puckett
4:56: STAND BY by Michela Farrell
6:35 [CW: Pet death]: 15 Seconds of What the Ghost in My Home Sounded Like
After My Dog Passed by Anooj Bhandari
6:55 [CW: explicit language]: SIR GREGOLAS RADIO: WICKED SINNER by Greg Lakhan
8:51 [CW: Parent death, Horror sounds]: Neo 1 and Neo 2 by Kyra Sims
12:06: The Woman and the Popsicles: : a not-so fictional fictional investigative podcast
within a podcast Season 2 episode 1 by Robin Virginie
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Hit Play is produced by Kyra Sims, Hilary Asare, and Michaela Farrell
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: summer comes to a close.
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A dirge for To-Do's not done, and a hope for Autumn by Michael John Improta
Nighttime Mating Calls of Fire Island by Shelton Lindsay
Fall in America by Jacquelyn Landgraf
Borg Speaks Out on Hit Play by Christopher Borg
Was I funny; or litigating an old joke through voice memos to find out if it's at all funny or not by Michael John Improta
The Other Side by Shelton Lindsay
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: summer comes to a close. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Christopher Borg - An Ode to Memories and Long Days
Jacquelyn Landgraf - It’s coming from inside the house
Shelton Lindsay - Fall of America
Michael John Improta - My First Pumpkin Spice Latte of 2021
Jacquelyn Landgraf [CW 13:35: mention of sexual assault] - Why Women Aren’t Funny
Christopher Borg - THE LAST GASP OF SUMMER
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Songs, Trying to figure out how what was left, and The Fastest Race to Stay Put! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:32 [CW: swears and sex] - Rewording doja cat’s boss bitch to be my own empowerment song because i need it right now. by Shelton Lindsay
5:05 [CW: explicit language] - Park Off: A Parking Play by Anthony Sertel Dean & Mike Puckett feat Shelton Lindsay
12:08 - Incomplete Origin of Loss (interrupted by rains) by Rob Neill
15:07 [CW: explicit language] - I will write the next Asexual Anthem by Anthony Sertel Dean
15:57 [CW: drug use and explicit language] - Sir Gregolas Radio: Posted by Greg Lakhan
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we spin the web on the web about how our minds spin about things we see and hear on the web! Some of the plays include explicit language. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:55 - Targeted Advertising by Mike Puckett
2:08 - On hearing that top client scientists released a landmark report on climate change… by Rob Neill
2:53 [CW: explicit language] - scrolling through writers block by Shelton Lindsay
7:11 [CW: drug use] - Brokeboi ASMR Pt. 1: Bong Resin by Greg Lakhan
10:45 - Imaginary montage from Untitled Apocalypse Movie Project (version 2.0) by Rob Neill, featuring Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, and Shelton Lindsay
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we open up...in lots of ways. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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2:00 [CW: use of the N word at 4:45] - AGGRESSIVE Money Making Affirmations From Ya Boi by Greg Lakan
5:09 - VII.V.MMXXI by Yael Haskal
8:42 - Did you experience [REDACTED]? You’re not alone. by Michaela Farrell
11:25 - Exodus.peace.reflect.adapt.forshadow by Katy-May Hudson
13:51 - How are you? By Greg Lakhan
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Léah Miller, and Conductor Name
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. All of the plays in this episode are part of our Neo-Futurist mix tape. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:58 - A Normal Morning In Astoria, Queens by Greg Lakhan
5:13 - City of Ghosts by Katy-May Hudson
7:43 [CW: explicit language] - Yael’s Big Ugly Play. by Yael Haskal featuring Katy-Kay Chelena
11:03 - Weeeellll adjusted by Michaela Farrell
13:23 - Thinking of Having Kids? Listen to This First by Katy-May Hudson
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Léah Miller, and Yael Haskal
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode touches on the theme of summer and its many possibilities. Perhaps we'll see you outside? Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:55 - Sunday May 30th, Greyhound Bus #2503: Boston to New York City by Robin Virginie
5:20 - Sir Gregolas Radio: (Confide)nce by Greg Lakhan
8:42, 11:00, 14:30, 23:18 - POTENTIAL SOUNDS OF SUMMER by Robin Virginie featuring Kyra Sims, Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, Annie Levin
9:54 - Footnotes and Concierge by Mike Puckett
12:22 [CW: death] - In response to the New York Times article that posed the question "How Do I Dress for My Pandemic Belly?" by Annie Levin featuring Katie Kay Chelena, Robin Virginie, Anooj Bhandari, Greg Lakhan, Yael Haskal, Krys Seli
15:39 - meta-documentary by Kyra Sims featuring Katharine Heller, Max Zemlin-Thornton, this week's cast
24:36 - Steps for Individual Site-Specific Sense Memory Theater by Hilary Asare
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. We hope you brought your appetite. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:59 - Neo-Zine #1: Sour by Kyra Sims, featuring Annie Levin, Robin Virginie, Hilary Asare, Léah Miller
3:21 - i can still taste you by Robin Virginie featuring Kyra Sims, Annie Levin, Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, Hilary Asare
5:23 [CW: death] - In Your Orbit™ by Annie Levin
8:40 - A Tedious Task Like Cleaning the Kraine by Greg Lakhan featuring Hilary Asare and Kyra Sims
12:01 - new york > brooklyn > community > missed connections by Mike Puckett
14:30 - Hunger by Hilary Asare featuring Kyra Sims, Annie Levin, Greg Lakhan, Mike Puckett, Robin Virginie
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. Maybe we'll find out something new. And maybe we won't! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:47 [CW: death, grief] - Record Breaking Part II by Anooj Bhandari featuring Priyal Patel
6:28 - The Deal with NFTs by Hilary Asare
8:58 - What To Expect When You’re Expecting (and what you absolutely cannot prepare for) by Michaela Farrell featuring Hilary Asare
12:50 - Phluge Road by Joey Rizzolo featuring his mother
17:38 [CW: body image, disordered eating] - BodyTalk by Hilary Asare featuring Anooj Bhandari
22:15 - Pitch Meeting Remix by Colin Summers featuring this week's cast.
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Léah Miller, and Anooj Bhandari
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we run some numbers! Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:49 [CW: high pitched tone] - In Which We Gear Up For Something Important by Michaela Farrell featuring Joey Rizzolo, Anooj Bhandari, Hilary Asare, and Colin Summers
3:45 [CW: death] - T minus 45 by Joey Rizzolo featuring Hilary Asare
7:02 - Record Breaking Part I by Anooj Bhandari featuring Michaela Farrell and Joey Rizzolo
9:47 [CW: death, suicide] - Neo Superlatives by Joey Rizzolo featuring Michaela Farrell, Anooj Bhandari, Hilary Asare, and Colin Summers
17:25 - Five Meditative Clangs, Bangs, Bonks, and Dings from my apartment by Colin Summers
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: trickery. Some of the plays may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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1:50 - A Short Guided Meditation With Ya Bwoi by Greg Lakhan
4:47 - This is the most malicious thing I’ve ever done by Julia Melfi
7:24 - oh what what was that about oh everlane and such by Rob Neill featuring Greg Lakhan
11:47 - Sexcapade by Kyra Sims featuring Anooj Bhandari
18:09 - Two Tales of One Sweatshirt by Anooj Bhandari
20:11 [CW: description of animal violence] - A song for my visitors that they won’t comprehend by Michael John Improta featuring other musical friends
This episode was conducted by Julia Melfi
Our logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Léah Miller
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We're back back! Everything in this episode is in response to plays and ideas from Season 1!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
We'll be back in your ears on April 30th!
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2:16 - Neo-Futurism a year later in 7 parts by Michael John Improta
5:38 - greens. by Julia Melfi featuring this week's cast and Léah Miller
6:53 - On going back inside to shower at night by Rob Neill
10:47 [CW: grief, death of a pet] - Breath Levels by Anooj Bhandari
14:40 - Practice Collage by Kyra Sims
18:20 - Sir Gregolas Radio: BRITA by Greg Lakhan
This episode was conducted by Julia Melfi
Our (brand new!) logo was designed by Gabriel Drozdov
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Léah Miller
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Four rules, a second season, and an infinite number of possibilities. Hit Play is back with all-new episodes starting Friday, April 16th!
Let’s wrap up the year in Hit Play! We asked our Patreon supporters to vote on some of their favorite experiments in audio. This episode: the final half of that countdown! Artistic Director Rob Neill talks with the podsquad about moments where Hit Play was flexible and broke some rules, plus more Neos join us to revisit their plays.
Featuring Annie Levin, Anthony Sertel Dean, Greg Lakhan, Hilary Asare, Julia Melfi, Katie Kay Chelena, Kyra Sims, Léah Miller, Lee LeBreton, Rob Neill, and Robin Virginie
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5:54 [CW: brief moment of fatphobic bullying] - Reimaginings of 2020: A Dramatic Reading of a Speculative Fiction story I wrote in 1991 at the age of 12 by Annie Levin
51:56 [CW: references to antisemitism] - If You're Hearing This, I'm Doing Fine by Lee LeBreton
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Let’s wrap up the year in Hit Play! We asked our Patreon supporters to vote on some of their favorite experiments in audio. This episode: the first half of that list! Artistic Director Rob Neill talks with the podsquad about adapting Neo-Futurism to this time, and Neos join us to revisit their plays.
Featuring Annie Levin, Anooj Bhandari, Anthony Sertel Dean, Hilary Asare, Julia Melfi, Joey Rizzolo, Katie Kay Chelena, Kyra Sims, Laura Killeen, Léah Miller, Lee LeBreton, Rob Neill, and Robin Virginie
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8:30 [CW: death] - Going back to that tree to record what I had been meaning to write because this time, it does feel a bit different by Julia Melfi
44:37 [CW: racism, police brutality] - Jogging while masked while black by Kyra Sims
1:17:27 [CW: brief mention of racial violence] - Hilary's steps for being, while being black circa June 2020 by Hilary Asare
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Hit Play is back for a bonus episode: an audio presentation of Sheryl Oring's I Wish to Say. Since 2004, I Wish to Say has been inviting the public to dictate postcards to the President while a typist transcribes those messages using a manual typewriter. Sheryl sat down with the New York Neo-Futurists virtually this November to type our own letters to the President-elect and share some of the most memorable letters from her 4,000-letter archive.
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21:36-25:17 [CW: brief mention of sexual harassment in Katharine's letter]
This episode featured the voices of Annie Levin, Julia Melfi, Kyra Sims, Katie Kay Chelena, Katharine Heller, Rob Neill, Sheryl Oring, and Lee LeBreton
Special thanks to Sheryl Oring for collaborating with us on this bonus episode. You can learn more about her work and I Wish to Say here!
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: we reach 199 audio experiments.
This is the end of season 1, but we’ll be back with some special episodes of Hit Play, so stay tuned and stay subscribed! Take care of yourself and leave us a review on your listening app of choice.
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2:48, 6:13, 8:14, 9:27, 12:36, 19:04 - Swan Song for hidden horn and human round by Kyra Sims featuring Gabriel Spector, Anooj Bhandari, Katharine Heller, Rob Neill and Julia Melfi
3:21 - The Sweetest Illiteracy (A Follow-Up Translation-Loop Play to ‘Legalize is a Word’ from Episode 48) by Anooj Bhandari featuring Anooj's dad and Nani
6:29 - Everything in your left ear is true. Everything in your right ear is not true. by Julia Melfi featuring Léah Miller, Kyra Sims, Hadley Todoran, Anooj Bhandari, and Rob Neill
8:31 - 🥁🥁💢 by Michael John Improta featuring anyone who would listen
9:36 - Hey, Popcorn Truck in the Bike Lane (with Rob as the voice of Rob and Lee as the voice of the popcorn truck) by Rob Neill featuring Lee LeBreton
12:56 - Sir Gregolas Radio: The Days Ahead by Greg Lakhan and Anthony Sertel Dean
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: found text (and one lost book)! Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
We’re wrapping up Season 1 with episode 50 next week! We’ll be back towards the end of the year with some special episodes of Hit Play, so stay tuned and stay subscribed. Take care of yourself, download the stop-motion studio app and make a little movie, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:06 - Found Poetry December 8th, 2016: Was this written on a typewriter? It looks like it was written on a typewriter by Anthony Sertel Dean
5:53 - Found Writing: Fantasy Novel circa 11 or 9 years old by Julia Melfi
10:15 - Found Fanfiction: Lord of the Rings, 14 years old by Lee LeBreton and read by Kyra Sims
12:04 - Found in the purple 70-page spiral notebook several phrases on several pages around the turn of the century 1999-2000 by Rob Neill
15:11 - Found Poems circa 2014: Freshman Year Slam Poetry Club Angst by Léah Miller
17:20 - Found Notes App Note circa 2020: Case #0200701 with apologies to Jonathan Sims by Hadley Todoran
18:15 - Lost Text circa 1996: Dinosaur Time Warp by Max Zemlin-Thornton
19:21 [CW: brief moment of fatphobic bullying] - Reimaginings of 2020: A Dramatic Reading of a Speculative Fiction story I wrote in 1991 at the age of 12 by Annie Levin featuring Michaela Farrell, Robin Virginie, Yael Haskal, Anooj Bhandari, Kyra Sims, Lee LeBreton, Michael John Improta, and Katharine Heller
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Clown-God, bold fonts, top hats, and window shouts!
Join us at our 2020 Virtual Gala on October 15th! Any donation to our Just Giving page or subscription to our Patreon gets you an invite link to the night’s events including an auction, and a Zoom Room roulette of digital performances. We’d love to party with you.
Also we’re wrapping up Season 1 of Hit Play with our 50th episode on October 24th. We’ll be back towards the end of the year with some special episodes of Hit Play, so stay tuned and stay subscribed!
Take care of yourself, pick out what you're gonna wear for our gala, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:23 - When you listen to this play, imagine the following... by Robin Virginie and Julia Melfi
4:02 - Legalized is a word by Anooj Bhandari
6:30 - Ad Break: The Kyra Sims Fancy Cool Expensive Top Hat Company. Go to tinyurl.com/FancyExpensive to get in on the ground floor.
8:37 - Audio Experiments Experiments: Experiment no. 3 by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring Laura Killeen
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Fortnite, Midwest, your screen, our email! Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
Join us at our 2020 Virtual Gala on October 15th! Any donation to our Just Giving page or subscription to our Patreon gets you an invite link to the night’s events including an auction, and a Zoom Room roulette of digital performances! We’d love to party with you.
Also we’re wrapping up Season 1 of Hit Play with our 50th episode on October 24th. We’ll be back towards the end of the year with some special episodes of Hit Play, so stay tuned and stay subscribed!
Take care of yourself, ice-roll your face, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:32 [CW: videogame gun sounds] - A singular game of Fortnite reinterpreted as a meditation on existence by Shelton Lindsay
5:25 - small sound moments from the middlewest by Rob Neill
7:48 - Experiments in random voice over part 2 by Michael John Improta
9:46 - Even when we are apart, we are still creating together, a song made by passing around a track and adding to it one by one by Shelton Lindsay, Anthony Sertel Dean, T Thompson, Annie Levin, Lee LeBreton, Joey Rizzolo, Julia Melfi, and Rob Neill
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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While the New York Neo-Futurists are social distancing just like you, our on-going and ever-changing attempt to create immediate art continues! Hop into any episode with a title that strikes you.
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: sleeping, emailing, eulogizing!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, triple check your voter registration, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:00 - My Body Asleep by Anooj Bhandari
5:13 - The email I wrote my conservative family members, and their reply if they bother to send one by Shelton Lindsay
8:50 [CW: death] - Elegy for My Father (Now Deceased), Written While He Was Still Alive, Told as a Joke by Joey Rizzolo
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: audio diaries, long drives, chord experiments, apples + honey!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, start a dream journal, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:53 [CW: sex sounds] - Monday. An audio diary of today, September 7th by Shelton Lindsay
4:33 - Wednesday/Thursday. Rob on the road eastward bound by Rob Neill
12:52 - Thursday. Audio Experiments Experiments: Experiment no.2 by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring Kyra Sims
16:10 - Sunday. shanah tovah u'metukah by Léah Miller featuring Rob Neill, Rayne Harris, Shelton Lindsay, Laura Killeen, Katharine Heller, Dan McCoy, Julia Melfi, Anooj Bhandari, Lee LeBreton, and Marta Rainer
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: rains, fires, oceans, Costco!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, learn your favorite song backwards, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:25 [CW: death] - Going Back part three: The Weather by Rob Neill featuring Sylvia and Liam Boyle
5:34 [CW: death, gender] - An open letter to anyone thinking about throwing a Gender Reveal party by Shelton Lindsay
9:40 - Shelton's imagination of Poseidon's press conference after coming out as a Biden supporter at The Battle of Lake Travis 2020 by Shelton Lindsay featuring Rob Neill, Topher Lin, Léah Miller, Anthony Sertel Dean, and Julia Melfi
13:45 - Paean to a Certain Sort of Parsimony (The Land of Milk and Honey! It’s Here! It Calls! Heed Me Now!) by Topher Lin featuring Willie Caldwell on lead guitar, and additional vocals by Anna McFall, Bess Boever, and Ben Savitzky, with production by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: mosquito songs, lions & cows, whistling pals, broadway words!
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Take care of yourself, walk backwards all week as a durational performance piece, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:22 - a tiny lullabye for my midnight mosquito enemies by Colin Summers
2:37 - I got eyes on the back of my butt! by Anooj Bhandari
5:20 - Put your lips together by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring the whistlers
7:20 - A Broadway of the Mind (with apologies to Mr. Larson) by Cecil Baldwin
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: colors, spices, songs!
Check out our monthly livestream show, CyberWrench, the first episode is tonight (August 29) at 8pm ET! More info on our website here.
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Take care of yourself, draw a line in the sand and call it land art, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:00 - blues. by Julia Melfi featuring Annie Levin, Yael Haskal, Michael John Improta, Rayne Harris, and Rob Neill
3:19 - Aloo Paratha: A Recipe Play by Anooj Bhandari
8:32 - A Broadway of the Mind (with apologies to Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein II) by Cecil Baldwin
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: new words, old spatulas, and [REDACTED]!
Check out our upcoming monthly livestream show, CyberWrench, which is starting August 29th! More info on our website here.
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Take care of yourself, eat only pudding for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and call it conceptual art--and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:52, 5:25, 10:50 - The Sporadically Annual Totally Arbitrary Not-a-Word Spelling Bee! by Michaela Farrell featuring Katharine Heller, Rob Neill, and Yael Haskal
3:42 - Spatulas? by Rob Neill featuring Kyra Sims and Julia Melfi
7:02 - [REDACTED] by Joey Rizzolo featuring Hilary Asare
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: chimes, beeps, tones!
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Take care of yourself, send a letter to a long lost lover in the mail, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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0:00, 2:27, 7:53, 10:48, 13:33 - Chimes (I - V) by Rob Neill
3:22 - Interactions I Wish I Could Have in My New Job as a Simulated Patient by Joey Rizzolo featuring Yolanda K Wilkinson, music by Avery Rizzolo
8:16 - Audio Experiments Experiments: Experiment no.1 by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring Yael Haskal
12:30 - Audio Crime provided by Cecil Baldwin
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: factories, elections, popsicles!
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Take care of yourself, start your own podcast where you scream into a pillow for each episode, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:30 - A Mindless Task by Michaela Farrell
4:40 - Before Biden announces his VP pick... (OR some questions that have oscillating answers depending on if I'm on or off the clock) by Anooj Bhandari
7:12 - The Woman and the Popsicles: a not-so fictional fictional investigative podcast within a podcast Season 1 Episode 1 by Robin Virginie featuring Gilda Virginie and Michaela Farrell
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: guitars and Grindr!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, livestream yourself cleaning out your fridge, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:26 - That Girl by Michaela Farrell (Here's the link to Michaela on The Today Show!)
3:35 [CW: explicit language around sex and fetishization] - Banned from Grindr by Anooj Bhandari featuring Clare Palmer, Jessie Alsop, Tonya Narvaez
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: Brooklyn Bridge, Fort Tryon Park, Herbert Von King Park!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, blow some bubbles, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:36 - Metaphors are my love language, so I love my daily bike ride by Michael John Improta
5:15 [CW: racist murder, hanging] - A Brief History of Fort Tryon Park * by Kyra Sims
6:34 - Joy Space by Anooj Bhandari
- If you'd like to contribute to the GoFundMe to support the family of Dominique Alexander, go to gofundme.com/f/justicefordomo
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: camp counselors, acting lessons, artist statements!
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Take care of yourself, leave a nice little note for your neighbor, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:10, 6:14, 10:10, 13:20 - Thwarted camp counselor emcee at the end-of-camp talent show by Léah Miller featuring some laughing friends
2:29 - In which Michael pretends he’s back in acting school, with a little help from Anooj by Michael John Improta featuring Anooj Bhandari
7:53 - What mediums do you work with? by Anooj Bhandari
13:48 - How I feel after finding out I couldn’t watch the New York Yankees vs. The Philadelphia Phillies baseball game because that game got cancelled because a dozen or more people in the Miami Marlins organization tested positive for Covid-19 last Sunday, and yet they decided to play their games vs. The Phillies anyways by Michael John Improta
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: experiments, dads, boats!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, try cooking something you’ve never eaten before, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:52 - Experiments in random voice over part 1 by Michael John Improta
3:57 [CW: mentions of 9/11] - Sympathy for Those with Dads Like This by Joey Rizzolo featuring Shelton Lindsay and Katy-May Hudson, recorded in 2016
5:15 - Going Back part two: Re-Crossing by Rob Neill featuring Krys Seli and Tonya Narvaez, with music by Sunil Yapa
9:18 - Audio Crime provided by Cecil Baldwin
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for his play. Thanks, Joey!
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: sheep stories, rhyming raps, bedtime bummers!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, do a dance for a friend outside their window, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:40 [CW: gun violence, capitalism, allusions to slavery] - A not quite children's tale about America by Michael John Improta
6:21 - Sir Gregolas Radio: Chopped Cheese by Greg Lakhan
8:41 [CW: descriptions of meat manufacturing] - Too Much Cute Makes Your Baby an Idiot by Katy-May Hudson featuring Mike Puckett, recorded in 2016
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Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for Katy-May's play. Thanks, Joey!
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This episode: existential, high, reminiscent, and crunchy!
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Take care of yourself, put some watercolors and paper outside while it rains and let the sky do the painting, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:40 - recent over sights by Rob Neill featuring Vanessa Ehler, Léah Miller, Greg Lakhan, and Katharine Heller
2:51 - Sir Gregolas Radio: WII'D by Greg Lakhan
3:58 - Katharine Recalls The Plot Of The Musical "The King And I", From Her 6th Grade Production Without Googling Anything, And Rob Fact Checks Her by Katharine Heller featuring Rob Neill
5:57 - Hot Leaf by Anthony Sertel Dean
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: sound trucks, empty bars, corona rhymes!
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Take care of yourself, make your bed and call it conceptual art, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:28 - What does the city sound like? by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring Julia Melfi with Kyra Sims, Shelton Lindsay, Robin Virginie, and Rob Neill
3:19 - Closed (Still Closed) by Julia Melfi featuring Yael Haskal and Kyra Sims
4:34 - Sir Gregolas Radio: Shitty Beer by Greg Lakhan
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: taxes, survival, friendship!
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Take care of yourself, make a fort out of pillows and sheets, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:40 - a rhetorical spiral inspired by paying taxes by Michaela Farrell featuring Kyra Sims, Michael John Improta, and Katie Kay Chelena
2:40 [CW: listing of violent historical events] - Gen X SurvivalList: How We're Able To Do This by Yolanda K. Wilkinson featuring Rob Neill and Christopher Borg
7:44 - In which Michael solicits future hugs Hit Play edition part 2 by Michael John Improta featuring Greg Lakhan
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: immigration, telephones, late night feels!
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Take care of yourself, paint your face in the spitting image of your worst enemy’s face then send them a selfie, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:32 - For Americans Wanting to Leave by Robin Virginie
4:06 - Go ahead ask (abridged) with Yolanda & T & Rob on the phone: Part II by Yolanda K. Wilkinson, Rob Neill, and T Thompson
10:10 - I Will, I Will Rock You by Annie Levin
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: Q&As, ferry rides, and sick beats!
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Take care of yourself, get your feet in the air, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:44 - Go ahead ask (abridged) with Yolanda & Rob on the phone: Part I by Yolanda Kae Wilkinson and Rob Neill
6:05 - American Journey (Vashon Island 2017) by Topher Lin featuring Angela Hsu and Jeff
9:28 - HEY JOEY, GUESS WHAT? I LEARNED TO USE GARAGE BAND! by Ezra Reaves featuring Joey Rizzolo, recorded in 2016
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The music and sound for Topher's play were designed by Jessie Alsop
Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for Ezra's play. Thanks, Joey!
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: swearing, boxing, hugging, following!
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Take care of yourself, rearrange your trinkets, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:33 - My Family Swear Jar by Anooj Bhandari featuring Aash Bhandari and Priyal Patel
3:44 - Neo-Pugilism by Katy-May Hudson featuring Mike Puckett, recorded in 2016
6:19 - In which Michael solicits future hugs, Hit Play edition part 1 by Michael John Improta featuring Léah Miller
9:49 - Reflections on following a bee down the empty sidewalk in the sun by Rob Neill featuring Alexa
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Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for Neo-Pugilism. Thanks, Joey!
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. The New York Neo-Futurists have been celebrating Pride all week, and we’re capping it off with episodes of Hit Play featuring some queer queer plays. You can head to nynf.org/prideweek to check out the rest of our art we made. This week: yellow cars, sex toys, flash dance, fridge poetry!
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Take care of yourself, write a letter to an imaginary friend and then send it to a random address, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:54 - tall tale delirium in a big yellow car by Yael Haskal
5:12 - Everything In My Sex Drawer by Lee LeBreton
5:55 - Podcast-Flash-Dance-Interlude II by Anooj Bhandari
9:22 - Organic Voice Machine: Queering the Hit Play archive by re-crafting 111 words for the 111th audio experiment by Léah Miller featuring the Hit Play archive
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. The New York Neo-Futurists have been celebrating Pride all week, and we’re capping it off with episodes of Hit Play featuring some queer queer plays. You can head to nynf.org/prideweek to check out the rest of our art we made. This week: lineage, dreams, texting, and introductions!
We ask that if you find this work meaningful, you donate to a cause that is meaningful to us. Check out Black and Pink, a prison abolitionist organization that supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners.
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, slide into our DMs, and tell us your favorite iconic queer villain on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:20 [CW: references to anti-Semitism] - If You're Hearing This, I'm Doing Fine by Lee LeBreton
5:17 - CollectiveFutureDream by Katie Kay Chelena featuring Rob Neill, Anooj Bhandari, Annie Levin, Shelton Lindsay, Yael Haskal, Michael John Improta, and Michaela Farrell
8:20 - Queer Fantasia (or a bunch of texts sent that we are now reading here) by Anooj Bhandari featuring Lee LeBreton
13:36 - Hello, my name is… by Sergio Maggiolo
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. In honor of Juneteenth, and the continual efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement, this week we’re featuring plays that keep conversations about race going. This week: reflective questions, deep breaths, family recipes, sticky resin!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, take a video swagging out doing something you like to, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:49 - Tending to the Disillusion of Action: A Question Starter-Pack by Anooj Bhandari
5:07 [CW: brief mention of racial violence] - Hilary's steps for being, while being black circa June 2020 by Hilary Asare
7:20 - Quick Dinner Break (recorded outside because the weather was nice) by Robin Virginie
8:57 - Resin by Greg Lakhan featuring Caitlyn Jones, Aubrey Lace Taylor, Lindsay Mayberry, Robin Virginie, and Hilary Asare
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. In honor of Juneteenth, and the continual efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement, this week we’re featuring plays that keep conversations about race going. This week: NY protests, Seattle history, preschool memories, Black joy!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, sing your favorite song into your favorite coffee mug, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2:06 [CW: racial violence] - Making Tracks: Walk #7 (Protest Songs) by Kyra Sims; full essay here
8:08 - Two Legacies in Five Parts by Julia Melfi; Free Capitol Hill list of demands here
12:30 - Yellow Power, Black Peril by Topher Lin
15:39 - Variations on Black Joy by Hilary Asare featuring Rayne Harris, T Thompson, Nicole Hill, Robin Virginie
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, we here at the New York Neo-Futurists are paying attention to the voices of our community that are asking us to listen, and to activate our roles in refusing to tune out. This week, here’s a bit of what we’re hearing.
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CW: This audio collage contains descriptions and mentions of racist police violence and white supremacy.
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In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, we here at the New York Neo-Futurists are taking a moment of pause – to deeply pay attention to the voices of our community that are asking us to listen, and to activate our roles in refusing to tune out.
Instead of this week’s regular episodes of Hit Play, we're featuring Part 2 of an episode of You Can’t Say That, courtesy of the Broadway Podcast Network and Tonya Pinkins. Take a listen, subscribe to, and share their work. BPN.fm/YCST
On this show, Tony award winner Tonya Pinkins, has conversations with theatre-makers. Her guest on this episode is Kelley Nicole Girod, the founder and Executive Producing Director of Obie Award winning, The Fire This Time Festival, that also happens at The Kraine Theater – our shared theater home.
You Can't Say That is produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. The show is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
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In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, we here at the New York Neo-Futurists are taking a moment of pause – to deeply pay attention to the voices of our community that are asking us to listen, and to activate our roles in refusing to tune out.
Instead of this week’s regular episodes of Hit Play, we're featuring an episode of Helga from WNYC Studios and WQXR. Take a listen, subscribe to, and share their work.
On this show, Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to her "Everyday Conversations with Extraordinary People”. Her guest on this episode is Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President.
Helga is produced by Krystal Hawes, technical direction by Curtis MacDonald, executive produced by Lukas Krohn-Grimberghe.
Hit Play's logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, we here at the New York Neo-Futurists are taking a moment of pause – to deeply pay attention to the voices of our community that are asking us to listen, and to activate our roles in refusing to tune out.
Instead of this week’s regular episodes of Hit Play, we're featuring an episode of You Can’t Say That, courtesy of the Broadway Podcast Network and Tonya Pinkins. Take a listen, subscribe to, and share their work: BPN.fm/YCST
On this show, Tony award winner Tonya Pinkins, has conversations with theatre-makers. Her guest on this episode is Kelley Nicole Girod, the founder and Executive Producing Director of Obie Award winning, The Fire This Time Festival, that also happens at The Kraine Theater – our shared theater home.
You Can't Say That is produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. The show is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Hit Play's logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: spelling bees, new normals, chanting monks, cat experts!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, tie-dye it up with your old Neo-Futurist merch, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:39, 7:44, 10:47 - The 0th Annual Totally Arbitrary Not-A-Word Spelling Bee by Michaela Farrell featuring Siyu Song, Yael Haskal, and Greg Lakhan
3:37 [CW pandemic] - The Normal: It Is New by Katharine Heller featuring Dan McCoy, Cecil Baldwin, Connor Sampson, Rob Neill, and Daniel Mirsky
9:21 - Meanwhile Rob drinks the 2nd to last beer from his fridge and hangs a small shelf for keys & masks by his door while listening to a few random monks chanting with, are those bells? yes, those are bells and monks! by Rob Neill
13:10 - You're the expert by Jeffrey Cranor featuring Cecil Baldwin
18:13 [CW 9/11-related PTSD] - Audio Crime provided by Cecil Baldwin
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: touch, horcruxes, unemployment jams, future storytime, breath, treasure!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, get into stop-animation, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:44 - Strange/r by Katie Kay Chelena
3:38 - Hairy Neos and the Better Days of He Who Must Not Be Named by Anooj Bhandari featuring Lee LeBreton, Shelton Lindsay, and Rob Neill
5:06 - Summer Jam for the 14.7% Like Me by Colin Summers
7:38 - This is how we'll tell it by Yael Haskal
9:58 [CW police brutality, racist violence, death] - For Good White Americans, Recorded in a Single Breath by Lee LeBreton
10:36 - Finding treasure in my phone, your phone, our phones: a collage by Anthony Sertel Dean featuring everyone they could find
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: mask meanings, seaside picnics, learning español!
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Take care of yourself, paint your roommate’s room while they’re asleep, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:23 - Found Sound Part II, Plus or Minus Some Masks by Anooj Bhandari
3:57 - Reflections while currently living on an island (based on a dream, a birthday, and a 100-year-old book) by Rob Neill
8:06 - A Spanish Lesson by Michael John Improta
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: cads, cooing, candy, crying!
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Take care of yourself, send some mail art, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:11 - Beatnik Poet presents: Rejected Dating App Openers by Katie Kay Chelena
4:00 - The title of this sonnet is me thinking about the last line of "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison by Michael John Improta
5:54 - MMM & MMM by Julia Melfi featuring Katie Kay Chelena and Robin Virginie
8:45 - Found Sound Part I, Plus or Minus Some Tears by Anooj Bhandari
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Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean, Julia Melfi, and Léah Miller
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: moon mom, final fantasies, grandfather greetings!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, be Garfield but swap lasagna and Mondays, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:25 [CW: death] - Going back to that tree to record what I had been meaning to write because this time, it does feel a bit different by Julia Melfi
3:48 - A review of ff7/ff7 remake with time distortion by Shelton Lindsay
6:27 [CW: death, drinking] - 3 attempts at sitting outside my apt and drinking around my grandfather's 100th birthday by Rob Neill
10:50 - Audio Crime provided by Cecil Baldwin
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: making chai, making cookies, sharing secrets, dancing bodies!
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Take care of yourself, give yourself some ballpoint pen tats, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:29 - The Double Down, or a case for not having to tell you how to say my name by Anooj Bhandari
5:35 - I've gained that Covid 15 by Shelton Lindsay featuring Michael John Improta
7:33 [CW: paraphilia] - Confidence by Joey Rizzolo
11:49 [CW: discussion of fatphobia] - Get Me (Em)Bodied by Katie Kay Chelena featuring Julia Melfi
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: metronomes, canines, dance breaks, and nephews!
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Take care of yourself, find a new use for glue, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:24 - This is it by Yael Haskal
3:52 - exploration into current angers #7 by Rob Neill
4:48 - Podcast-Flash-Dance-Interlude by Anooj Bhandari
8:13 - Regressing to a childlike state, featuring the voice of my nephew Ben, who's at home in Texas, as the child ego by Daniel Mirsky, featuring Ben Mirsky
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: spit, Bernie, Instagram, sourdough, and jogging.
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, make a sticky note flipbook, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:59 - Spitting Distance by Laura Killeen featuring Michaela Farrell and Julia Melfi
5:53 - Almost-Socialist by Anooj Bhandari
7:58 - Rob Neill Versus Instagram by Lee LeBreton featuring Rob Neill
11:31 - 7 Clever Uses for Discard by Marta Rainer
17:16 [CW: racism, police brutality] - Jogging while masked while black by Kyra Sims
20:53 - Audio Crime with Cecil Baldwin
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: bread, time travel, ASMR, and gratitude for teachers!
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Take care of yourself, arrange some paper clips in a pleasing way, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:32 - Brooklyn Pioneers by Cecil Baldwin
5:03 - It Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes: World-Crisis Time Travel via Excerpts from My Grandfather's 90-Year-Old Diary by Annie Levin
9:33 - This Week in Good News ASMR by Katharine Heller, featuring Courtney Leckey
12:16 - Piano Lessons by Kyra Sims
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Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: This week: TP thoughts, hopeless hats, texting trials, film feelings, and dirty dishes!
Some of the plays in this episode may contain sensitive topics. For more specific content warnings, check out the timecodes below.
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Take care of yourself, cut up those copies of the New Yorker you’re never gonna read and make a collage, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:37 - Walking you through something (stay with me on this one) by Robin Virginie
3:58 [cw: suicide] - Notes from Above the Underground by Katy-May Hudson
6:51 - I've been thinking a lot about text messaging by Michael John Improta
8:04 - Quarantine Movie Guide for Isolation Escapists by Michaela Farrell
10:47 [cw: past violence, death] - Dishes: Lessons from a Hometown True Crime Lifetime Original
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Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for Notes from Above the Underground, thanks Joey!
Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: allegories, boobs, chipmunks!
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Take care of yourself, learn to Tango, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:48 - Autoboobographies by Laura Killeen featuring Riva Cahn, Jack Wakely, Desiree Burch, Francesca Perry, Hilary Asare, Jessica Munna, Christie Perfetti Williams, Elena Larios, Kate Jones, Julia Melfi, and Vanessa Vizcarra Soberon
4:22 - the re-Coil-in-Code allegory by Rob Neill featuring Laura Killeen & Julia Melfi
6:24 - Something I Want to Believe is True by Annie Levin featuring Kyra Sims
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Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play. This week: Puerto Rican flags, voices that are gay, squirrel emojis, and birthdays.
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Take care of yourself, do a shadow puppet show, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:26 - Pa'lante mi gente pa'lante by Michael John Improta
3:40 - Sissy by Christopher Borg
6:50 - Wanted: Night Sonnets (parts I - X) by Robin Virginie & Rob Neill featuring Anthony Sertel Dean
10:56 - The (anti)climax of lockdown Aries season by Laura Killeen featuring Michael John Improta, Hilary Asare, and Michaela Farrell
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, make a costume from old packaging materials, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:12 - alphabet sleep (part ii) by Rob Neill featuring Kyra Sims
4:38 - Ode to 17 (after Anis) by Katie Chelena
7:32 - Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, or An Amended Excerpt from the The Infinite Wrench House Managing Handbook by Ellen Zemlin
10:26 - the space below by Anooj Bhandari
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, make your own postcard and send it to a pal, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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1:40 - 3am tape loop by Yael Haskel
3:45 - A Storm is Coming by Julia Melfi featuring Yael Haskel, Hilary Asare, Mike Puckett, T Thompson, Anooj Bhandari, and Jeewon Wright-Kim
6:02 - alphabet sleep (part i) by Rob Neill
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean
Léah Miller is our associate producer
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, make your own postcard and send it to a pal, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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Play Time Codes:
8 Reasons I'm learning to play the piano (1:21)
Parsley in 5780 (3:00)
13 Headlines I'd Love to See in 2050 (5:23)
Six Questions of When for You (6:35)
2Clean2Assholes (8:12)
This episode featured work by: Michael John Improta, Léah Miller, Yael Haskel, Julia Melfi, and Siyu Song and Michael John Improta.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Music for Parsley in 5780 was written and performed by Josh Davidoff.
Léah Miller is our associate producer.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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This episode featured work by: Hilary Asare featuring Robin Virginie, Lee LeBreton, Anooj Bhandari, Anthony Sertel Dean, and Joey Rizzolo.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Léah Miller is our associate producer.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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This episode featured work by: Anooj Bhandari and Siyu Song, Léah Miller, and Greg Lakan. Plus, a play from the vault by Mike Puckett, recorded in 2016.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
Our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Joey Rizzolo designed and mixed the audio for Yes All Men. Thanks, Joey!
Léah Miller is our associate producer.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
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Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, subscribe to the show, consider making a donation at nynf.org, and join our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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This episode featured work by: Katie Chelena, Ellen Zemlin, and Annie Levin. Featuring Anthony Sertel Dean and Robin Virginie.
Cecil Baldwin hosted our Audio Crime.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
And our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Léah Miller is our associate producer.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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This episode featured work by: Michaela Farrell, Anooj Bhandari, Yael Haskel, Shelton Lindsay, and Michael Improta.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
And our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
Take Care!
Thanks for Hitting Play and then listening to Hit Play.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Patreon.com/nynf membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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This episode featured work by: Anooj Bhandari, Shelton Lindsay, Kyra Sims, Anthony Sertel Dean, and Katie Kay Chelena, and also included Annie Levin and Michaela Farrell.
Cecil Baldwin provided our Audio Crime.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
And our sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
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We’re bringing you a selection of experiments in audio around the themes of Isolation and Community. While The New York Neo-Futurists are social distancing just like you, our on-going and ever-changing attempt to create immediate art for you continues!
All you need to know is we are who we are, we’re doing what we’re doing, we are where we are, and the time is now.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
This episode featured work by Rob Neill with Cecil Baldwin, Kyra Sims with Julia Melfi, Michael Improta, and Kyra Sims.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
Sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
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In our first episode, we’ve adapted some of the plays that were supposed to be in this week’s performance of our on-going, ever-changing, and weekly late night show The Infinite Wrench. This week would have been our 773rd consecutive performance where we attempt to perform 30 original plays in a single hour.
All you need to know is we are who we are, we’re doing what we’re doing, we are where we are, and the time is now.
If you like what you hear and want to support the New York Neo-Futurists, consider making a donation at nynf.org, or joining our Patreon. Patreon membership gives you access to bonus content like video plays! We’d really appreciate any support in these difficult times. Contributing to our Patreon helps us continue to pay our artists.
Take care of yourself, call a friend, write a poem, do a dance, and share it with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
This episode featured work by Yael Haskal, Dan McCoy, Rob Neill, and Shelton Lindsay.
Our logo was designed by Shelton Lindsay.
Sound is designed by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Hit Play is produced by Anthony Sertel Dean and Julia Melfi.
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