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Higgenbaum’s Mitzvah is a satirical fiction and experimental storytelling podcast exploring the dissonance, chaos and absurdity of modern life.
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"Scott Pinkmountain's work is a reminder that the podcast medium needn't solely be a megaphone for the news, celebrities chatting, the lecture hall, etc. Pinkmountain proves that a podcast can be just as avant garde, conceptual, literary and subversive as any other medium. Pinkmountain is making art. And that his art can be as funny and entertaining as it is, is the real trick."
Jonathan Goldstein –Producer, Host of Heavyweight, formerly WireTap and This American Life
The first episode is “both hilarious and devastating, maybe hits a little too close to home?! The ads are <chef's kiss>.”
Julie Shapiro – Co-Founder of Audio Flux, formerly Radiotopia and The Third Coast International Audio Festival
“Hilarious and smartly written, with clever and engaging music choices, Scott Pinkmountain’s show is like a playground for your mind.”
Jonathan Mitchell – Writer, Director, Producer of The Truth
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“The smartest and funniest social criticism out there.”
Sonya Geis – Senior Managing Editor, KCRW News
ABOUT
Writer and producer Scott Pinkmountain uses monologues, interviews, stories, jingles, phone calls, lectures, guided meditations, in-flight announcements and whatever else he can forage as a launching point to interrogate the interior.
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Each episode of Higgenbaum’s Mitzvah stands alone as a self-contained listen, unless otherwise noted.
Episode 1 (Being Content), which describes a single day of average device use, is a recommended starting point, as well as episode 7 (Quintilletech) featuring a rogue ai on-hold companion, and episode 8 (Peckham & Fleece Part 1 – The Letter) about contact from a marketing agency.
Scott Pinkmountain
Scott Pinkmountain has been active as a podcast producer, writer and musician for over 30 years.
His previous show, The History Channeler, was an absurdist parody of a history podcast. He has written extensively about the creative process and spent years interviewing artists about how they balanced work and creative practice on the Make/Work podcast for The Rumpus.
Pinkmountain’s music runs the gamut from Afro-psyche influenced jazz and avant-garde large ensemble composition to chamber pop and stripped-down songwriting. And of course, scoring his podcasts.
He lives in Southern California with a dog, whose anus may or may not be a hyperlink.
Photo: Harper Point Photography
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CONTACT
Email: scott @ higgenbaum dot com
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