I will be giving two talks at Big Ears in Knoxville on March 30th:

1) A panel with Randall Poster (music supervisor: Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Pat Irwin (musician, composer: SUSS, the B-52s, Dexter: Original Sin, Dexter: New Blood, Nurse Jackie, Rocko’s Modern Life) for a conversation about Music for Film & TV.

2) A lecture “How Avant Garde Music Consumed Hollywood,” looking at the ways in which experimental music has been used in mainstream cinema. From The Rite of Spring in Fantasia, through the cartoon music of Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott, to Laurie Spiegel’s music in The Hunger Games and beyond, we will screen excerpts and discuss this unique history.