Approaches to Craft: You Are Only As Good As Your Research (so they say….)
CraftMusicProductionSound February 1, 2020
Finally, we should look at how a black idiom and the sensibilities it has come to imply are appropriated for the associative value they lend to modernism - hip, sophisticated, ultra-urbane. Toni Morrison - ‘Playing In The Dark’ The oracle spoke. I wanted to play with the words above,... Read more
Approaches to Craft: Perspectives on Music, Sound and the Visual
CraftMusicProductionSound July 11, 2019
My excitement here is twofold: taking part in a crucial eco system of information, and the opportunity to ruminate with my passion. Let me be transparent: I am a musician, and ethnomusicologist filmmaker. This combination means that I work across the spectrum of sound and music. The methods I... Read more
Every Action Movie Needs Theme Music, Sucker!
MusicProduction June 18, 2019
“Cool, guy, loud and quietIf your head's in the way, he'll FLY ITDon't try it, cause Jack of Spades doesn't BUY ITHe's a one-man riotCleaning the community, of all its debris – The C-R-I-M-E” -- KRS-1 – Jack of Spades As a child of the 1980s in the great... Read more
