Audio-Visual
Audio-Visual Artist, Composer, Musician, Writer
37 years on planet, prefers dogs to cats
aliases: John Kennedy, JK, Mo Shuffles
Editing gives me the opportunity to meet up with all my creative interests:
the narrative arts, sound design, musical composition, and visual design
and manipulation-- all at the same time and in the same place. I also love
the process of creative collaboration, playing ideas off one another, and,
when all is said and done, ending the day with a potent piece of work.
I've won awards and prizes and fellowships and been invited to
international art festivals, and I've also had the pleasure of recording,
performing and touring in North America and Europe with experimental,
jazz, and rock groups.
My hero editor is Walter Murch because of his amazing talent with sound
as well as picture. DeDe Allen also made this one incredible cut in "Dog
Day Afternoon" which goes against logic but works great because of it.
I'm also addicted to movies and documentaries.
FILM INFLUENCES:
Andrei Tarkovsky is the quintessential auteur in my book, but I'm also a big
fan of Stanley Kubrick, Gaspar Noe, Werner Herzog, John Cassavetes,
Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, Lars Von Trier, Martin Scorcese,
Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar Wai, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg, Orson
Welles, PIXAR, Errol Morris, Stan Brakhage, "Monty Python," and Michel
Gondry among many others. Does "The Simpsons" count?
MUSICAL INFLUENCES:
Experimental and Improvised musics, electronica, classical, blues, jazz
(Ellington, Monk, Dolphy, Coltrane, Davis, Mingus, Art Ensemble of
Chicago, Zorn, and much of the modern "downtown" scene), folk, soul,
rock, pop, reggae, afro-funk, hip-hop, and "ethnic" musics from around the
globe. And Willie Nelson's "Red-Headed Stranger" album is brilliant.
LITERARY INFLUENCES:
Italo Calvino, Kenneth Patchen, Jorge Luis Borges, Flann O'Brien, Samuel
Beckett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Stephen
King, William Vollmann, ee cummings, G.K. Wuori, Thomas Mann, Jose
Saramago, Julio Cortazar... hm, i'm also a fan of this old illustrated book
called "101 Uses for a Dead Cat," and Chris Ware's remarkable graphic
novel "Jimmy Corrigan, or, The Smartest Kid on Earth."
my CV
