Ragtime #8: AI - A Necessary Predicament.  Examining the shattering relevance of Walter Benjamin's most prescient essay.

Ragtime #7 - The Mass Man: outlining the attributes of a most dangerous type of character, the  'mass-man', through the prism of Kierkegaard and Jung.

Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness: Few might imagine that a most celebrated street musician is in fact a brilliant academic intellect, composer, painter, poet, as well as a highly credentialed philosopher with extensive training in both Eas...

Host Benjamin Martin on how a lack of grassroots artistic initiative results in a vacuum that is filled by a veneer culture.

The sprawling, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining forth episode of Ragtime with the brilliant Peter de Jager and renowned scholar and performer Peter Tregear.0’00 - Intro3’29 - EXCERPT: Faust Symphony (Liszt)5’34 - ...

 Very short episode narrated by Ragtime host Benjamin Martin on the importance of remaining in touch with the unknown.

Ragtime’s Pilot episode featuring preeminent musicians David Berlin, Fabian Russell and Joe Chindamo, discussing a wide range of subject-matter addressing the underpinnings of Art, culture, and society.0’00 Intro2’22 What might be so...

Agent of History: exploring the musical and societal ramifications of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method, as well as examining elements which presaged serialism.  With brilliant musical mind and celebrated pianist-composer Peter de Jager....