Between the Gap

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Between the Gap

Bill Hemstapat

7 episodes

1 month ago

Josh is a writer and a scholar currently studying PhD in English Literature at University of Southern California. We have been friends for quite a long time and even got to work together on my personal project, Tales of the Forgotten. (You can Google it, essentially he wrote the novel which I wrote a soundtrack for) Josh and I have been having very meaningful conversations around our mental health and our difficulties navigating the modern life. So I thought, why not record one of these and ...

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Episodes (7/7)

Between the Gap

Writer & Scholar, Josh Beckelhimer, on Navigating Mental Health

3 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Between the Gap

Should I go to college for music? | Education in Music with Dr. Michael Dudley

Today’s guest is a trumpet player, composer, a college professor and another one of my long time friends, Michael Dudley. He’s performed and collaborated with some of the biggest names in Jazz such as Maria Schneider, John Daversa, Brian Lynch, and Donny McCaslin to name a few. He’s also currently an assistant professor of Jazz Studies at Crane School of Music in New York. We get to talk about his struggles during our time in college together, his complicated relationship with trumpet and com...

3 years ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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Diversity in Music with Chad Cannon

Contrary to our normal format, I got to sit down with Chad Cannon in his backyard and talk about a topic we are both really passionate about - diversity in music. Having been a part of a multi-cultural projects ourselves such as Ghost of Tsushima, Mulan (Live Action), Thai Cave Rescue - we're untangling our thoughts on the state of "Hollywood Music" today. Further more in the episode, we get to explore a little bit of Chad's background and his religious roots, the reason why he's not current...

3 years ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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Dodo Kitcharoen, storyboard artist (Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Go Go!)

Our guest today is a storyboard artist: Patradol "Dodo" Kitcharoen. Dodo is one of the first Thai people I met when I moved to LA. We quickly became friends and collaborators during our time at USC. We get to learn about his upbringing of diverse cartoons, his relationships with drawings, and how it got him to fly across the pond to American. We then dove into his experience as a trainee at Cartoon Network and also going wayyyy back to when he was still working at an animation studio i...

3 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Max Davidoff-Grey on narrowing his focus (The Witcher, Shadow and Bone)

Max is a composer whose music can be heard on hit TV shows like The Witcher, Shadow and Bone, and America the Beautiful. Max and I moved to Los Angeles just about one year apart. We remain very close friends and endlessly support one another ever since we met. While being a crucial member of Joseph Trapanese's music team, Max also seek opportunities outside of his full-time job to score his first ever feature length film, The Gates. He expressed his rewarding collaboration with his colleagu...

3 years ago

56 minutes

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Koon W. Ya-inta, camera operator (The Flight Attendant, Kate, Shantaram)

In this episode, I have a pleasure of welcoming Koon W. Ya-inta, SOC, ACO, to our podcast. You may have seen his work as a steadicam operator on HBO The Flight Attendant, Netflix Kate, A24 The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and the upcoming Apple TV+ series Shantaram. But what you don't know is that 12 years ago he was a drummer in a mildly successful progressive rock band called Lucid Dream Syndrome, my band! I've known Koon for over 16 years now and he remains one of my best friends to d...

3 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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Peter Lam, composer (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, DC Peacemaker, Jane the Virgin)

Welcome to the first episode of Between the Gap, a new podcast where we have conversations with creatives about how they're bridging the gap from where they are in life and where they want to be. In this week's episode, I'd like to welcome composer and a great friend, Peter Lam. Peter has done it all, from blockbuster television like Star Wars Clone Wars and DC's Peacemaker to comedy hits like Jane the Virgin and Baywatch. But that's not really what I'm interested in. Today we sat d...

3 years ago

51 minutes