George Mpanga wanted to make a TV show. Looking to expand his conscious-growing work as the internationally recognized musician and spoken word artist George the Poet, he wanted to bring those talents to a new venue.
He was told he didn’t have the requisite experience. So he took on a new challenge: Take all of the current affairs-centered ideas he wanted to bring to sociology and humanities students and transfer them to an audio setting.
“Embedded deep in the logic of how we approach the podcast and the soundscape is a kind of stubbornness and determination to show that we can make visual some very elaborate ideas, with or without a production credit,” Mpanga told IndieWire.
So along with producer, composer, and songwriter Paul Carter, who works under the name Benbrick, they set out to tackle the principals of episodic storytelling with a podcast of their own. Together, the...
He was told he didn’t have the requisite experience. So he took on a new challenge: Take all of the current affairs-centered ideas he wanted to bring to sociology and humanities students and transfer them to an audio setting.
“Embedded deep in the logic of how we approach the podcast and the soundscape is a kind of stubbornness and determination to show that we can make visual some very elaborate ideas, with or without a production credit,” Mpanga told IndieWire.
So along with producer, composer, and songwriter Paul Carter, who works under the name Benbrick, they set out to tackle the principals of episodic storytelling with a podcast of their own. Together, the...
- 7/16/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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