About
Scott Pinkmountain (aka Scott Rosenberg) is a writer, musician and podcast producer living in Southern California.
As a musician, he has released over 20 albums of both songs and instrumental music (under the names Scott Rosenberg and Scott Pinkmountain), working with artists such as Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Sam Coomes (Quasi), Arrington Di Dionyso (Old Time Relijun), and many others. He has toured widely in the U.S. and Europe with Pink Mountain, EYES, and his band The Golden Bolts.
As a freelance journalist writing on music, culture and food, Pinkmountain’s work has appeared on This American Life and in publications like Time Out New York, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Sun Times and others. He has interviewed such diverse artists as composer John Adams, world-renowned opera director Lotfi Mansouri, Canadian philosopher and poet Jan Zwicky, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward P. Jones and indie rock legend Stephen Malkmus of Pavement.
He is the producer, writer and host of Higgenbaum's Mitzvah, an experimental fiction and satire show. His previous show, The History Channeler, was an absurdist history podcast parody. As host of Make/Work, which is featured on The Rumpus, he spoke with creative makers of all mediums about how they sustain their creative practice and make a living. Pinkmountain also addressed similar issues in his column Work:Surviving the Arts, for PANK.
Education
M.A. in Music Composition, Mills College
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Wyoming
B.A. in Music Composition, Wesleyan University
Grants
Pinkmountain has received grants and residencies for music and writing from The Edward Albee Foundation, The Wurlitzer Foundation, The Ucross Foundation, Meet The Composer, The Jerome Foundation, Jentel and others.