What’s the MATA? A Festival Built with Grit with Pauline Kim Harris and Jessie Cox

2025-05-30

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Great conversation with Executive Director of Mata Festival Pauline Kim Harris and featured composer Jessie Cox.Music at the Anthology (MATA) celebrates its 27th Annual Festival with performances at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn from June 11th to 14th 2025Titled Intergalactic Infinity: Music Between Spaces, the festival promises to be an incredible few days of sounds, creativity and imagination, that will blow your mind.The episode serves as a way to dive in into the world of MATA, the process of curating a...

Great conversation with Executive Director of Mata Festival Pauline Kim Harris and featured composer Jessie Cox.

Music at the Anthology (MATA) celebrates its 27th Annual Festival with performances at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn from June 11th to 14th 2025

Titled Intergalactic Infinity: Music Between Spaces, the festival promises to be an incredible few days of sounds, creativity and imagination, that will blow your mind.

The episode serves as a way to dive in into the world of MATA, the process of curating a festival of this caliber, and a behind the scene view into the creative process of composers, their source of inspiration, their grit, how they view the future of music and a lot of fun topics you will love!

We cannot wait for you to learn more about MATA

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Co-hosts:

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Ian Loew: @lunchmeat1836

Producer: Sami Merdinian

Mata Festival 2025

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Guests:

Pauline Kim Harris - https://www.paulinekimharris.com/

Jessie Cox - https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/