Interviews & Features

Radio Show: Songs that Shaped Me

Kate created, hosts, and produces this radio show that “tells life stories through music.” She interviews artists about 3 songs that have influenced their lives and creative pursuits. Episodes air seasonally on CAMP FM, the radio station for the CAMP Artist Residency in France.

Guests to date include:

• D.A. Bullock - filmmaker & activist

• Walter Chaw - film critic & author

• Fran Dominguez (aka Forest Robots) - composer & wilderness explorer

• Michael Donte - filmmaker & creative producer

• Gaelynn Lea - musician & disability culture activist

• Beatrix Li - community organizer & Swiftie

• Nat Lyon - experimental musician & radio show host

• Charles Price - CAMP radio station manager

All interviews are available at SongsThatShapedMe.com.

Podcast: Experimental Trash
Kate was thrilled to be featured on Nat Lyon’s always excellent Experimental Trash podcast. The full episode is below as well as her Low cover.

“The artist Sweet Freeze recently sent me a link to a great cover of this Low track. Nice dynamic/tension in this version. The bass, guitar, and vocals are very well mixed. Very well. This is how you DIY. If you like Low- you will certainly like this one.” - Experimental Trash Host Nat Lyon

Interview: Tapes from a Padded Envelope
What a pleasure to be interviewed about musical background, process, and inspirations on this wonderful podcast! This interview covered Kate’s work as a solo artist, as well as the chamber choir she founded to spotlight emerging composers. They concluded with the track Sunspot (embedded below) from Sweet Freeze’s Half Life album.

Installation: If Trees Were Lone Women
What an honor to be part of this magical, evocative, international installation and have one’s music played at night in a Scottish wood!

This 2021 Sanctuary Lab installation created by Artist/Organizer Clare Archibald included music, poetry, spoken word, and other works by more than 120 female and nonbinary artists from around the world, all played on loops and projected from 17 different trees. The Sweet Freeze song Thaw was one of 5 songs selected to play continuously from an MP3 player affixed to a tree in this immersive installation.

Learn more here: If Trees Were Lone Women

Song Collaboration on a Compilation Album
Stir, my song collaboration with Time Rival, is featured on TRIP FM’s latest compilation album, Music for Dotted Lines. (Released May 2022 and named a “New & Notable Release” by Bandcamp.) Time Rival created this wonderful track, building off of my impromptu 8track session export below, featuring guitars, vocals, and a nail brush.

Kate Sattler/Sweet Freeze (center) performing her song Storms at Foris Choir’s 2018 concert, along with Emily MacDonald (left) and Marisa Wildeman (right).