I’m doing some overdue archival work — organizing and tidying my own archive (it is August after all… italianisti will understand). Here’s a tiny item from the memory chest: the 10-second intro I made for the Consort’s COVID-prompted “great performances” video series. For the series, we used archival audio recordings for which I created visual…
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I was recently asked when I started designing slideshows/projections for the Newberry Consort. My current bio pinpoints 2012 as the date, and it’s close enough, but the semi-formal question got me thinking about the details. So I dug out my main trove of saved programs and tried to put together the timline. Ellen and David…
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As an “art kid,” I was obsessed with drawing, painting, creating, building. I even remember cutting out stories and headlines from the newspaper and pasting them up on my own paper. Layout, right out of the gate.
When I launched Keener Editorial, I worried about how to explain the combination of editorial and design services that I would be offering. They seemed, somehow, at odds with each other. But I was only planning to build-out my decades-long side hustles and professional experiences into a one-person business. It couldn’t be that weird.
The #NCGreatPerformances project—the Newberry Consort’s pandemic-inspired YouTube series—works like this: David and Ellen select a concert to highlight, choose the pieces to include, and create an audio master of the excerpts; David sends me the audio; I’m off to the races.
