Junkyard Orchestration - Nathan Johnson

Junkyard Orchestration - Nathan Johnson

Author: Calvin College Student Activities Office April 10, 2009 Duration: 1:02:06
This workshop provides a behind-the-scenes look at composing music for independent film. Using audio clips and images from his recent original scores for the acclaimed neo-noir film Brick and the upcoming The Brothers Bloom, Johnson explores specific creative challenges regarding structure, technology and the constraints of small-scale music production.

Captured during a vibrant weekend on campus, this collection offers a direct auditory pass to the Festival of Faith & Music held in 2009. The FFM 2009 podcast, presented by the Calvin College Student Activities Office, archives the rich conversations and performances that defined that year's gathering. You'll hear keynote speakers grapple with the complex intersections of artistic expression, belief, and cultural engagement, their talks preserved with the immediacy of the original event. Alongside these major addresses, the series includes intimate workshop sessions where musicians, critics, and thinkers delved into the craft and philosophy behind creating meaningful work. This isn't a retrospective commentary, but the original audio itself-a chance to experience the unfiltered discussions about how faith animates and challenges the worlds of music and performing arts. For anyone curious about the dialogue between spirituality and creativity, this podcast serves as a valuable historical record and a source of enduring inspiration, straight from the source. The episodes invite deep listening, offering perspectives that feel as relevant now as they were when first shared with an audience of students, artists, and seekers.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 32

FFM 2009
Podcast Episodes
Is it Really so Strange? - Bifrost Arts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:25
This workshop critically examines the relevance of sacred music within popular culture, and in particular, pop music. Pensak and Wardell briefly survey the history of hymnody and sacred music with a focus on the deep roo…
Spare Change in a Stradivarius Case - Joan Van Dessel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:45
The primary objective of this workshop is to offer leading questions that encourage musicians to explore how they might further integrate practical aspects of their faith with their artistic interests. Discussion include…
Creation, Fall, Redemption, CCM - Terry Mattingly [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:34
Want to start a war? Try to work out an authoritative definition for this all too common term, "Christian music." Nearly two decades after Amy Grant recorded "Baby, Baby," Christians can still work up a lather in the cul…
Creative Journey Toward the City of God - Makoto Fujimura [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:56
Makoto Fujimura shares from the process of his art, his writing, his experience with church planting projects and the founding of International Arts Movement to discuss the role of creativity in cultivating a movement mi…
Survival of the Freshest - David Dark [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:20
David Dark leads a discussion on our understanding of prophetic traditions, broadly defined, and how the reworking (or remixing) of words and images is part of the crucial task of actually receiving a witness (avowedly r…
Jesus is My Mixtape - Cathleen Falsani [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:39
Cathleen Falsani had her first epiphany at age twelve while listening to U2's song "Gloria" for the first time in a friend's living room. And, not unlike Rob Gordon in High Fidelity, she can trace her spiritual evolution…