Here, Hear: Recent Episodes
La Dispute
La Dispute presents Here, Hear: The Podcast. Exploring past, present, and future creative processes, as individuals and as a band, through sounds, words, pictures, thoughts, experiments, and interactions. This project will be a peak behind the curtain as the band develops the next installment in the ongoing Here, Hear series.
A strange gift arrives at the doorstep two years late. There is only your name, no shipping label, no evidence of origin. Just a date stamp and the words "This Song Will Self-Destruct" in ink on cardboard. Inside is a song: Here, Hear 16. You play it. We talk about it. Prompt by Adam Vass. Thanks for bringing it from the porch into your home.
Group chat puts the finishing touches on our Wildlife deep dive. Related questions from Patreon are answered. Updates discussed. Breezes shot.
A triumphant though understated (and slightly awkward) solo return to the medium. More soon.
Chad talks putting seeds in the ground in both literal and metaphorical ways, discussing the restorative work of planting and harvesting while picking the fruit of creative seeds planted in the last eight months with his multi-layered contribution to song 16 (based on Adam's Self-Destruct prompt, one step away from finish now).
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Corey covers more ground than fits in a synopsis: a decade plus spent touring, working while writing, how rap is boundless, and the shortcomings of life in punk rock—from financial instability to its promise of inclusivity—and how to build a better version of it when all of this is over. Also discussed: writing for Adam’s prompt, and 16 gets two steps closer to the end in the midst of recording this episode.
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New episodes will continue to release every other week (roughly) for the duration of the project. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
Brad balances contradiction in his song 16 conversation, explaining his strategy for building up a foundational structure while still following the guidelines of a writing prompt built on things falling apart. On the future, we talk the larger lessons of the project so far, how it’s changed our relationship to time, work, and when to say we’re done.
Thank you to all our backers for making this show and the new music it follows possible. Join for early access and additional content at patreon.com/ladispute.
New episodes will continue to release every other week for the duration of the project. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
What we learn by engaging philosophically and emotionally with media, art’s role as a Rorschach test, lyric games, stoner metal, Yoko Ono. Adam covers considerable and truly fascinating ground in the process of explaining our second song prompt—64 words(?) falling apart en route to our 16th Here, Hear entry. Listen and discuss.
Adam's games work is available for download at worldchampgameco.itch.io and currently on Kickstarter at tinyurl.com/spacechamp. Crystal Healing, The referenced collection of La Dispute story games is at ladispute.itch.io and is currently pay-what-you-want. Jay Dragon's 101 Games for Survival is available at mariabumby.itch.io/101gamesforsurvival.
Correction: 101 Games for Survival is a collaborative project by Jay Dragon and Maria Mison, I'm not sure which one wrote the text read aloud on the show and credited to Jay.
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Song premiere episode. Chad and Jordan discuss lasting lessons from the first prompt before debuting “15”—the first new Here, Hear track in 4 years. Afterwards, the whole crew joins in for a full wrap-up chat and Adam wins prompt one MVP (and the coveted prompt two spot as a reward).
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Last episode before new music. Brad and Jordan discuss working with Chad's prompt, strategizing against personal tendencies, then veer off to more important topics than music, examining privileges, past shortcomings, and how to be better now and going forward.
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New Patreon exclusive mini-episode next week before our final full Chad-prompt episode, with the premiere of Here, Hear "15," then we're on to the next prompt. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
(EDITORS NOTE: I said "death" in this episode where I should have said "murder" and when I said "marginalized communities" or anything similar what I mean are Black communities specifically, but also Indigenous communities, other communities of color, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, the intersections of them. Should've been clearer. Smash all systems reliant on subjugation and pain to thrive, make the world better for all people. Love to each of you)
With Brad sick, Jordan flies solo, rambling on with love but no direction, in the spirit of Chad’s prompt, then reads a poem he wrote without editing. New full episode next week. Black Lives Matter. Be safe and don’t stop pushing.
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New episodes will continue to release every other week for the duration of the project. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
With Chad’s song prompt now laid out, and his own portion of the new song sent along, Adam and Corey talk to Jordan about their experiences adding to it. Musical spirits get channeled, the term “Lindelofing” gets coined, and we get one step closer to new music.
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PAINT = SOUND
“you = painter”
In episode two, Jordan speaks with Chad about the value of creating together in trying times and about trusting spontaneity in art—how to start, when to end, and about how striking a balance between analysis and impulse helps the human come through in music—while laying out his creative parameters for our very first new HH song.
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New episodes will continue to release every other week for the duration of the project. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcast.
In our first full episode, we talk early HH history—bathroom and lakeside recordings, the Lovecraftian letters of the mini-CDr, friendship—while drawing a line to the present and future through the influence of spaces and restrictions. Featuring all of us.
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New episodes will continue to release every other week for the duration of the project. Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever else you get your podcast.
In the inaugural episode of the Here, Hear podcast from La Dispute, Jordan explains the history of the Here, Hear project from its inception, how it changed over the years, and how we are reviving it now.
Join the process and help us create more songs for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com/ladispute.
New episodes will continue to release every other week for the duration of the project, subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or anywhere you get podcasts.
La Dispute presents Here, Hear. returning in 2020.
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