#159 // Scott Wasserman - Hamilton's Ableton Programmer // Part Three

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Scott Wasserman (Hamilton's Ableton Programmer) shows love for #HamiltonPR, talks his podcast Song Salad, and goes in on his experience working on Lin-Manuel Miranda's 21 Chump Street.

Help Puerto Rico:

https://flamboyanartsfund.org/

https://hispanicfederation.org/

https://www.teerico.com/

Song Salad:

http://www.songsaladpodcast.com/

https://soundcloud.com/songsaladpodcast/ep-119-say-hello-to-thebit

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VQ1DAQp6RZ4E4KzcVdbUT?fbclid=IwAR08NF8u8K0WN_WH8s1rpCJ4yYYBWkdlsC7GNi98JaUF6X6gs9lAje4ETSs&si=uqP6diwCQby10JZ649gS8A

Shockwave on the basic beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPnU2FZZmQ

21 Chump Street performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBGa6-uOhc

Full show:

http://live.thisamericanlife.org/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.1	Boots and cuts and boots and...
0:07.1	Hootz and... Hootz and... Hello everybody welcome back to the hamelcast I'm Jillian and once again this week I'm hanging out with Scott Wasserman
0:24.1	Scott is the Ableton programmer for Hamilton which means he's in charge of all the
0:27.9	sounds and orchestra can't make. If you have no idea what I'm talking about
0:31.3	or you're just joining me definitely go back and
0:33.6	listen to episodes 157 and 158. Scott explains all about Ableton tells great
0:38.9	stories from the really early days of Hamilton and plays these musical gems that will blow your mind.
0:43.6	So definitely go back and listen to episodes 157 and 158.
0:47.0	Okay, so we're all caught up.
0:48.6	Excellent.
0:49.4	Please enjoy the rest of my chat with Scott Wasserman. Yeah, that Puerto Rico company is special.
1:05.0	They're incredible.
1:10.0	Yeah, and that opening night performance was I would say one of the best performances of Hamilton I've ever seen. Yeah, so you want to talk about it? Can we talk? Yeah, let's talk about Puerto Rico. I mean, so yeah, I was there for the entire
1:24.3	tech and preview process and then was there for opening night and I left two days
1:28.5	after opening. With any new company I'll be present for that amount of time.
1:34.0	And like I said, in the rehearsal studio in New York as well,
1:37.2	playing rehearsal beats.
1:38.7	So we have a separate Ableton session
1:41.0	that is used for rehearsals that includes a lot of the drum patterns, the
1:48.5	electronic percussion patterns, some of the bass and guitar stuff, and is used in the rehearsal studio so that the
1:54.2	dancers can get more of a sense of the accents that they're dancing to along with
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