For over two years, I hosted a radio program on WPRK (91.5FM in Winter Park, FL) called Zero Crossings. (Wikipedia defines a zero crossing as “a point where the sign of a mathematical function changes (e.g. from positive to negative), represented by a intercept of the axis (zero value) in the graph of the function. It is a commonly used term in electronics, mathematics, acoustics, and image processing.” I tried to accomplish a few different things with the show. Its twin main goals were to feature the music of living composers, with a focus on local composers, and to promote and support local arts events (primarily with living composers, but also the Orlando Phil and other arts groups), through live interviews. When there wasn’t something to promote, I sometimes explored themes related to instrumentation, race, gender, location, Grammy or Pulitzer award winners, etc. The show was 2 hours long. Everything was live and unedited.
I have preserved many of the interviews or personally important shows here.
Additionally, a handful of interviews were condensed and published for my First Contact column for ArtBorne Magazine.
November 24, 2014, featuring an interview with Mauricio Cespedes, violist for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mauricio Cespedes
December 8, 2014, featuring an interview with tuba player Robert Carpenter of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
Robert Carpernter

December 15, 2014, featuring an interview with cellist and conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric Jacobsen.
Eric Jacobsen

December 22, 2014, featuring an interview with composer and percussionist Thad Anderson.
Thad Anderson

January 05, 2015, featuring interviews with Eric Jacobsen and pipa player Wu
Man.
Eric Jacobsen and Wu Man

January 19, 2015, interview with local composers Carl MaultsBy, Benjamin Lane, Stan Cording and Keith Lay about the Sacred Sounds concert at St. Luke’s.
MaultsBy, Lane, Cording & Lay

January 26, 2015, featuring an interview with jazz composer, singer and trumpeter Scott Dickinson.
Scott Dickinson

February 16, 2015, featuring interviews with Athalia Cope, Steven Jarvi and Adam Schoenberg.
Cope, Jarvi & Schoenberg


March 2, 2015, featuring an interview with Andrea Cox, Stephen Cox, and Danny McIntyre about Art31.
Cox, Cox & McIntryre


March 9, 2015, featuring an interview about the Young Composers Challenge.
Young Composers Challenge
March 23, 2015, featuring an interview with Jeff Moore, director of UCF’s School of Performing Arts.
Jeff Moore

May 18, 2015, featuring an interview with composer and author Robert Raines about his book, Composition in the Digital World.
Robert Raines

May 25, 2015, Miles Griffin as co-host and guinea pig, testing out Experiments
in Musical Intelligence.
Miles Griffin

October 19, 2015, featuring interviews with Full Sail students & composers Gabriel Kahane and Mark Piszczek.
Gabriel Kahane and Mark Piszczek

