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Your friendly neighborhood hip-hop producer is also the community programming
director for public access channel 18 (PATV) in Iowa City. A true “jack of all trades,”
this job finds me working as a cameraman, sound guy, producer, director, editor, grip,
gaffer, and everything else in between.
In 2010, I partnered up with host Yale Cohn with a shared vision to create high quality
local television content, and our (sometimes unholy) alliance has resulted in over 40
half-hour episodes of top notch entertainment.
“Talking with…Yale Cohn” is an in-studio talk show, directed by yours truly, with a
loose collaboration of volunteers and interns running cameras, lighting and audio.
Yale has interviewed all stripes of community movers and shakers in our studio,
from local
politicians and religious leaders to athletes, entertainers and activists.
On our spin off show, “No Desk Required,” Yale & I hit the streets and clubs of
Iowa City commando style, armed with just a microphone and a camera. We tend to
focus on the local music scene in this spin-off, and prefer limited prep-time
for fresh, on the spot interviews that are both compelling and entertaining.
Enjoy these five episodes of “No Desk Required” covering the Mission Creek Festival.
Each episode runs 30min.
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The first episode of our coverage of the Mission Creek Festival.
Exclusive interviews with The Wandering Bears, Birds & Batteries,
Rubblebucket, Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps and Ravens & Chimes
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Our second episode of of Mission Creek Festival coverage.
We talk with Colour Revolt, the Skull Defekts featuring Daniel Higgs,
and rock critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot from NPR’s Sound Opinions,
the world’s only rock ‘n’ roll talk show.
  
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Episode four of our Mission Creek coverage finds us talking with
Das Racist, the heartbreakers from Hott
(possibly our wildest interview yet)
the ever so lovely and talented Skye Carrasco, The Mumford’s, Dave Zollo,
Cacaw and Joe Ross, who’s in entirely too many Iowa City bands to list.
  
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Fans aren't just consumers anymore, but tastemakers, music distributors
and even collaborators with artists. How does this impact artists'
careers? Will anyone get paid for making music anymore? How does this
up the ante for concerts and festivals? Is touring and playing out 200
times a year the future of music? Is there enough passion for live music
to sustain thousands of music careers? Are festivals a growth industry
or are there already too many fighting over the same bands and leaving
everyone else out in the cold? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we,
the overwhelmed music lovers, make sense of all of this?
Join Jim DeRogatis & Greg Kot as they discuss this and other topics with
special guest Christopher the Conquered and Q&A interaction from the
audience. Recorded live @ The Mill during the Mission Creek Festival.
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Mission Creek Festival Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing fun
artistic experiences in the Iowa City region. Our primary event is the week long
Mission Creek Festival which takes place in downtown Iowa City every spring.
The festival takes over the venues and downtown spaces of Iowa City creating an
easily-navigated nexus of live music, literary readings, and art events.
This program is funded, in part, by a grant from the Iowa Community Cultural
Grant program administered by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. |
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