Hey folks, it's Joe. I'm really excited to bring you our conversation with Susie Abara,

which was actually recorded a long time ago and recently recovered. But before that,

a message for the fine folks of Portland. Long before he was a star of comedy, Fred Armisen

was a working drummer. Join us as he melds the disparate worlds of comedy and drumming for a uniquely

entertaining evening, featuring some special and iconic guests from the drumming community

of the Pacific Northwest. It all goes down at Revival Drum Shop on Saturday, July 22nd.

$5 tickets are available at our website, thetrapset.net, and you must be a drummer to enter.

See you there.

This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you. I'm going to play something for you. The You're hearing drum codes for by my guest, Susie Ibarra. Raised in Houston, Texas, Ibarra sang in choirs and played in punk rock bands while growing up.

She arrived in New York in 1989 and was eventually mentored by visionaries such as Milford Graves and Vernal Fornier.

Susie supplemented her innate creativity with rigorous devotion to the jazz language and emerged with one of the strongest most original voices in contemporary music

Susie's collaborators have included everyone from John Zorn and Pauline Oliveros to Thurston Moore and Yola Tango. She's a prolific composer with an interest in interdisciplinary multimedia, and she's devoted

much of her career to the study of various world music traditions.

Susie's also the recipient of a TED Fellowship and a professor at Bennington College.

This was recorded in the spring of 2015 in New York. And now my conversation

with the great Susie Abarra.

At the time I was born, my father was a surgeon during the Vietnam War,

Vietnam-American War, and he was gone for the first three months when I was born.

So he was a surgeon for the American Army?

Yes, he was.

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