Nov 12, 2006

Music Essay | Chapter 11: Dulcimer Festivalor also here:Music in Athens Southeast Ohio Dulcimer Festival at the Federal Valley Resource Center in Stewart Ohio. The festival included playing workshops and several concerts. For more information check out jcrmusic.com.

Oct 11, 2006

Music in Athens All of the “Music in Athens” pieces in one shell.

Sep 17, 2006

Punk/Hardcore music from The Union bar. This video was shot almost entirely on a Canon 20D using timelapse and sequence shooting. Some short clips from a Panasonic/Leica Lumix DMC-LX1. This is an experiment in a hybrid format blending stills and video for motion.

Jul 29, 2006

Music Essay | Chapter 9: Portrait of a Band: Bad Mamma Jamma This is part of a weekly journal essay attempting to show Athens as the music Mecca of Appalachia. Photography seems to handle drama, suspense, and action pretty well but I rarely see comedy. Well this is my attempt at comedy for the Music in Athens […]

Jul 24, 2006

Music Essay | Chapter 8: Boogie on the Bricks This is part of a weekly journal essay attempting to show Athens as the music Mecca of Appalachia. To celebrate the end of Brew Week in Athens, OH for the first time you were alowed to drink beer on Court St. for Boogie on the Bricks.

Jul 4, 2006

A Night in Little Havana Since I’m not in Athens to work on the Music Essay, I decided to do a little late night street photography in Miami.

Jun 18, 2006

Music Essay | Chapter 7: Ballad of a Thin Piano Man pt1 Music Essay | Chapter 7: Ballad of a Thin Piano Man pt2This is part of a weekly journal essay attempting to show Athens as the music Mecca of Appalachia. In part 1 Kent Lankas, pianist from Bad Mamma Jamma, talks about music in Athens. In […]

Jun 3, 2006

This is part of a weekly journal essay attempting to show Athens as the music Mecca of Appalachia. In this chapter I focused on using the stomping beat to drive most of the piece’s pace and transitions.

May 22, 2006

This is part of a weekly journal essay attempting to show Athens as the music Mecca of Appalachia. In this chapter I focused on the sense of timing with the emotional cues in the music.

May 22, 2006

Music Essay | Chaper 4: Singing Portraits I think this was a good idea originally, but I had to scrap most of the other portraits because the people singing HAD to hold the mic or they wouldn’t/couldn’t sing. As a consequence, they blew out the audio by holding the mic too close. Two out of the […]