Music & Sound Design/2006/30 min/Reel № 06.001
ByChris Blackwell
Chris Blackwell goes with his gut and brings us reggae
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Chris Blackwell takes music & sound design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Jamaica in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Chris's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Described by some as, "the definitive creative entrepreneur", Chris Blackwell pioneered the emergence of reggae into popular culture.
About the speaker
Chris Blackwell
Kingston/Jamaica
Chris Blackwell is a record producer and the founder of Island Records. Blackwell is credited for bringing reggae music to the world.
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