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Bit Depth
Deep conversations with interesting people. Santiago Ramones gets to know people on a deeper level: Why they do what they do and why they believe what they believe. Bit Depth lies at the intersection of creativity and philosophy, striving to establish a culture of nuance, empathy, and growth. As a musician, Santiago speaks with other musicians, creatives, outliers, and any sort of interesting person interested in deep conversation.
Episodes
Bit Depth201 - Shameless Enjoyment with Mylo
Mylo Sonder is back and we talked about music, separating art from the artist, enjoying artists other people hate, and effective apologies. You can find Mylo…
Bit Depth200 - Santiago Ramones
It’s episode 200. The last hundredth episode, I was interviewed by Sable, my now-wife. This time, I had Mac interview me, who has been an avid, vocal listener…
Bit Depth199 - Mylo Sonder
Mylo Sonder is a guitarist and musician currently playing with the band Pabu. We talked about music, anime, spirituality, and martial arts, among other things…
Bit Depth197 - Sample Rate 8 - Electric Pizza: Happy New Year!
Almost an entire year later, I’m finally putting this concert on the podcast. Power Cycle put on a concert at the UCO Jazz Lab on January 23rd, 2019. This is…
Bit Depth196 - Dylan Walling
Dylan Walling is a pianist and music teacher. He played with Haniwa, which is a band not active at the moment. We talked about music, why we do it…
Bit Depth195 BONUS - Sounds Welcome - Albums of the Decade
Well, this isn’t Bit Depth. But it does include Santiago Ramones. Sounds Welcome is a podcast by Kaelan Deese where he has music, news, interviews, social…
Bit Depth195 - Tangents with Mars
Mars joins me again and we talked about anything and everything - from food and condiments, to the Internet, to famous people, and many more things. You can…
Bit Depth194 - Mars
Mars is a musician and college student and we talked about music, morality, feminism, and sexual education. You can find Mars on Instagram, on which you can…
Bit Depth193 - Free Will with Eli
Eli Rawson is back and we talked about a range of things, like free will, having difficult conversations with different religious views, Andrew Yang, and video…
Bit Depth192 - Eli Rawson
Eli Rawson is a Dungeon Master and gamer who is slowly growing his Twitch channel, DungeonMasterEli. However, Eli recently found his way out of the church, and…
Bit DepthREPOST: 136 - Breck McGough
In September of last year, I had Breck McGough on my podcast. I figured I’d repost his episode with some of his music at the end to promote his Graduate…
Bit Depth191 - Failing in America
Cory and Terry come by once again and we talked about something that I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while: why are people in America so bad at failing?…
Bit Depth190 - Weddings are Stupid
Sable is my wife and we got married on October 10th. We talked about how stressful, wonderful, stupid, heartfelt, and expensive getting married was and give…
Bit Depth189 - Metal with Jesse
Jesse WhiteDeer joins me again and we discuss religion, music, nerdiness, and a great deal of other stuff. Check out all of the goings on at all the places in…
Bit Depth188.5 - Wedding
Sable and I are getting married on October 10th and I’ve let go of enough shame to be able to ask for assistance. Weddings and honeymoons are expensive and…
Bit Depth188 - Jesse WhiteDeer
Jesse WhiteDeer is a promoter/booker in Ada, Oklahoma for Vintage 22 and The Lot. We talked about music, music business, spirituality, and being a good person…
Bit Depth187 - Education with Will
Will Pope (Open Broadcast) is back and we talked about education and politics. We argued about Andrew Yang for a while, too! Love never fails. It's going to be…
Bit Depth186 - Not Like the Other Girls with Kat
Kat and I talked about a variety of things: aura colors, zodiac signs, the music industry, how gendered musical roles are, and many other random things. You…
Bit Depth185 - Kat Lock
Kat Lock is a singer and songwriter. We talked about music, music theatre, television, spirituality, and more! She recently had a new EP released called You…
Bit Depth184 - Will Pope
Will Pope is a podcast host and strategic communications major at UCO. We talked about communication, politics, religion, and video games. I really enjoyed…
Bit Depth183 - Local Music with Reece
Reece Carmen is back and we talked about the local music scene, social media branding, and politics. It was great to talk to such a smart dude with a lot going…
Bit Depth182 - Reece Carmen
Reece Carmen is a sixteen year old musician who plays drums with The Kelleys, but he also writes about and discusses the local music scene. We talked about…
Bit Depth181 - Living in a Society with Chase
Chase Hampton joins me as we talk about stumbling our way into adulthood, the feeble backbone of society, being plugged into the matrix, and how people don’t…
Bit Depth180 - The Lunar Laugh
The Lunar Laugh is a band consisting of Connor Anderson, Jared Lekites, Campbell Young, and potentially many others that they get to play with them live. I, at…
Bit Depth179 - Modern Music with Johnny
Johnny Manchild and I discussed the future of music, timeless and “magical” music, how streaming has changed music, and the popular music of today, about which…
Bit Depth178 - Johnny Manchild
Johnny Manchild is the keyboardist and lead singer of Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards. We talked about his band, music, and morality. ALSO At the end of…
Bit DepthREPOST: 47 - Dustin Ragland
This episode is a repost of episode 47 with Dustin Ragland. It was originally posted on December 29th, 2016. Since then, I’m sure he and I have grown as people…
Bit Depth177 - Music Education with Mac
This week, I’m joined by Mac, who plays in Off Brand and previously in Pluto Rest in Peace. We talked about music education, academia, music composition, and…
Bit Depth176 - Blu Lirette
Blu Lirette is a photographer and model and we talked about photography, social media, spirituality, and tattoos. You can find everything Blu does on social…
Bit Depth174 - Personality with Derek
Derek Brown is back and we talked about personality, music, ego, creativity, and authenticity. You can go see The Flaming Lips on tour in various places, and…
Bit Depth173 - Derek Brown
Derek Brown is a keyboardist, guitarist, and tour manager for The Flaming Lips, and also runs the Business Development Center at ACM@UCO. It was a pleasure to…
Bit Depth172 - Spirituality with Scott
I had more questions to ask Scott Booker about spirituality, and then we both talked about spirituality and the future of the music industry in Oklahoma. Scott…
Bit Depth171 - Scott Booker
Scott Booker is a manager of artists and musicians, most notably of The Flaming Lips. He’s also the CEO of ACM@UCO. We talked about music, how he came to be a…
Bit Depth170 - More Elecktra and Jarvix
Elecktra Stanislava and Evan Jarvicks are back and we talked about spirituality, God, political division, and music. Get to know them even more! You can find…
Bit Depth169 - Elecktra and Jarvix
Elecktra Stanislava is a “polymath musician composer artist handywoman ordained minister witch amateur ornithologist enfj and working mom” according to her…
Bit Depth168 - Music Union with Off Brand
Jack Martin and Mac Siegel from Off Brand are back and we’re here to complain about the Oklahoma City music scene and perhaps even hypothesize about what would…
Bit Depth167 - Off Brand
Off Brand is a rock band in OKC, often describing themselves as the #worstbandinOKC, and I was happy to have Jack Martin and Mac Siegel from the band doing a…
Bit Depth166 - Memes and Media with Alex
Alex Sanchez is back and we talked a lot about video games, memes, the Internet, the future, and such. We start with some spoilers to Attack on Titan, so if…
Bit Depth165 - Alex Sanchez
Alex Sanchez is a comedian and hosts Public Access, an Open Mic night at Paseo Plunge in OKC. He also co-hosts a Christian music podcast called The Praisedown…
Bit Depth164 - Don't Tell Dena
Don’t Tell Dena is a psychedelic rock band based in Oklahoma City. They’ve been hard at work on a new album/EP, and you can catch them all over the place…
Bit Depth163 - Composing with Chris Prather
Chris Prather (@chris_arden_prather) joins me again and we talk about making music, the different considerations when writing for different mediums and genres…
Bit Depth162 - Chris Prather
Chris Prather is a composer and percussionist in Grad School studying Music Composition at OCU. We talked about music, the process, and politics. You can find…
Bit Depth161 - The Music Scene with Eli
Eli Tostado and I started on talking about relationships but we inevitably started talking about music business, the local music scene, and being a…
Bit Depth160 - Eli Tostado
Eli Tostado is a singer, songwriter, and artist. She and I go way back… like elementary school. Anyways, we talked about music, of course, performing…
Bit Depth159 - Being Brown in America with Stephanie
Stephanie Peñate is back and we talk about growing up brown in America, politics, religion, and many other things. As usual, things get a bit deep! She plays…
Bit Depth158 - Stephanie Peñate
Stephanie Peñate is a keyboardist and music production student at ACM@UCO. She plays keys for Dire Gnome and has a podcast called Color Me In. We talked about…
Bit Depth157 - Leotie, Keathley, and Santiago
Oxford comma! Leotie and Keathley (Bit Depth #124) join me for a fun conversation about music, trolleys, immigration, and more music! You can find Leotie’s…
Bit Depth156 - Leotie
Leotie is Caleb Starr. Caleb Starr is Leotie. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Caleb and I talked about music, politics, spirituality, and Death Cab…
Bit Depth155 - Music and Meme-ing with Adam
Adam Marquez is back and we talked about music, memes, how the further fragmentation of niche subgroups creates ridiculous ideas, and how inherent traits in…
Bit Depth154 - Adam Marquez
Adam Marquez is a guitarist and musician, and of course, we talked about music - how he got started, major influences, and ideas in music that keep it…
Bit Depth153 - Music with Tyler
Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You…
Bit Depth152 - Tyler Thomas
Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You…
Bit Depth150 - Shame with Patrick
Patrick Conlon is a wellspring of knowledge, be it academic, or general life advice. I happened to express some random frustrations I had in mind, and he…
Bit Depth149 - Patrick Conlon
Patrick Conlon is a composer, violinist, artist, writer, teacher, and administrator. He is the Assistant Director for ACM@UCO and teaches there, as well as…
Bit Depth148 - Composing with Jonathan
After doing a second podcast and finding out that it didn’t record, I had to get Jonathan Edwards back on to do the second podcast. We talked about music…
Bit Depth147 - Sample Rate 6 - Remembrance: Power Cycle, 11/04/2018
I didn’t want to break up the (power) cycle of the Electric Pizza concerts, so here’s the third Power Cycle (Jonathan Edwards, Breck McGough, and myself)…
Bit Depth145 - Sample Rate 4 - Electric Pizza: Power Cycle, 09/10/2018
Since I was too busy to record a podcast for this week, I wanted to try something different this time around. This is a concert that I played on September 10th…
Bit Depth144 - Race and Culture with Troy
Troy and I discussed race and how that interacts with our culture, how we can improve conversation, and what problems we are still facing. You can find all of…
Bit Depth143 - Troy Anthony Small
Troy Anthony Small is a singer, teacher, arranger, and producer. He has an interesting background and we had a really fun and deep conversation. We get way…
Bit Depth140 - Scott McAllister
Dr. Scott McAllister is a composer, professor, husband and father. He has composed for Wind Symphony (“Zing!”, “Popcopy”), Clarinet (“Black Dog”, “X…