My name is Kane, I don't know how to describe myself besides maybe being a learner/thinker/artist. I am trained in audio production, recording, and mixing and just knowledgable in a lot of things.
I am from South Carolina, born in 1999.
The posts by me are my thoughts and research, mainly on music and culture. This is inspired by Virgil Abloh's site, but I would like to add long form pieces.
By no means am I a professional journalist, researcher, or writer of any kind. I just love reading and sharing my thoughts. I have no completed higher education degrees, I am just "well read" and have been taking notes on topics forever.
Music/culture wise, I've dedicated my life to music. Even as a kid I would walk to the library at 5-10 years old before I had any internet connection just to read blogs and watch Wu Tang Interviews. I had no plans to make music, I guess just being obsessed with it and researching was enough. Then I discovered Nirvana and decided I have to make music, so I learned bass/guitar (I learned enough to accomplish what I wanted, I'm not the best). This posed a huge issue, alternative music had next to no rhythm or at least nothing adjacent to what hip hop engrained into my subconscious. That led me to further research electronic music, jazz, soul, everything except country/folk/blue grass (I hate acoustic guitars) to study rhythm and how to apply the principles across genres. To summarize, I have studied everything I value (songwriting techniques, rhythm, arrangements, etc) from the whole range of genres I enjoy, to then apply them and synthesis songs to construct the music I've always wanted to hear. I have been producing/engineering music for over a decade now. Visit the artist page for current musical decisions.
The goal of this site is not to just ramble about music and various other things I'm into, but through deeper reading and research on topics I'm knowledgeable in or yet to be, able to add to a greater conversation and maybe start a few of them of my own.
No artificial intelligence is used by me for any posts, not even research. At some point in the future I'd like to start a mass bibliography in the navigation bar, but as of right now I don't have time for that and I don't think it's necessary.
Besides just posts, I'd also like this to be a dump for info and resources if anyone were interested or needed to reference.
To add context to my objective with my posts towards class consciousness and music/culture I'd like to quote one of my biggest inspirations, Gum.mp3, in his week 8 field notes :
Identifying the techniques, conventions, and key figures of an area of interest helps us understand how it’s brought to life through behaviors, applied skills, and the influence of highly regarded practitioners. How is it done? Who is doing it? Where does it exist and how? What mechanics and techniques are used commonly? These questions help us appreciate material qualities, craft, and innovation. (e.g. Frankie Knuckles, for house music; chiaroscuro, as a technique of the Renaissance/Baroque; Peter Kropotkin, as an anarcho-communist; use of chopped breakbeats, for jungle music)
"... help students understand how we can build a timeline around an area of interest to understand its place in history relative to certain developments in culture, the global economy and the political climate of key moments in time."