On the third Monday of every month @ 12pm, “Let’s Shake On It” with Shruti Kumar will bring together 2 esteemed musical guests with varied backgrounds to discuss their influences, careers (highlights + obstacles), and apply their experiences to engage in a moderated discussion on larger issues in the music industry (i.e. streaming, labels / distribution, programming, representation / access to opportunity, unions or a lack thereof, work culture, etc.) This effort to seek productive dialogue and common ground will conclude with a short collaboration in the studio, highlighting how our differences can really enrich a musical result.

ELIZA BAGG
Called “otherworldly, warped” (Stereogum) and “billowing, crystalline” (Gorilla vs. Bear), Lisel is the sweeping, ethereal avant-pop project of vocalist and experimental musician Eliza Bagg. A “fractured, futurist form of pop” (WNYC), Lisel’s music is grounded in her extensive career as a vocalist of minimalist/post-minimalist and Renaissance and Baroque singing styles, as she “disintegrates her voice into a euphoric, Auto-Tuned goo, emerging from the other side of the abyss an electro-pop alien” (NPR).

IAN HULTQUIST
Ian Hultquist, formerly of the band Passion Pit, is an American composer & producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Over the past few years, he has made a name for himself composing the scores for numerous films, documentaries, and TV shows.