In Process

Episode 5: Writing & Producing Music. Today we speak with the other mind behind In Process: Freddy Avis, a sharp, futuristic musician for the 21st Century. Based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, Freddy got his start working under acclaimed composer James S. Levine (Glee, American Horror Story, Bloodline, Nip Tuck, The Last Ship) for two years at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, CA. Since then Freddy holds music credits on hit shows including Major Crimes, Instinct, Star, & Chambers, as well as countless placements on Tiger King, Shark Tank, Dateline, & The Dr. Oz Show. He’s also contributed synth & percussion work on James Newton Howard’s scores for Walt Disney features Jungle Cruise and Raya and the Last Dragon. But even more enticing is Freddy's electronic alter ego, Arswain, under which he composes dark, inspiring, and profoundly eco-conscious music for our time. 2020 has seen the release of his debut album, Partitioning, as well as several music videos for the project.

Freddy holds a pair of Bachelor's degrees in Music and Political Science from Stanford University. During his Stanford tenure, Freddy pitched for Stanford's baseball team and was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 25th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft.

Instagram: @arswain__
Websites: freddyavismusic.com, arswainofficial.com
Soundcloud

Videos:
Pleasure (music video)

In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show

Recorded in Berlin/L.A. on 10.13.20

Episode 2: Digital Dances. Start touching those toes, because we are in the dance studio today with Carly Lave, an American choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. Her work seeks to question the self and personal subjectivity through movement, specifically in a female body, pulling on aesthetics of contemporary ballet. She holds a BA in American Studies and Dance from Stanford University where she trained with Alex Ketley, Robert Moses, Bobbi Jene Smith, Diane Frank and Muriel Maffre among others. She was a 2018-2019 US Fulbright Fellow to Germany (in residency with Tanzfabrik Berlin) developing dance with motion-capture technology and Virtual Reality. Her work furthers the human engagement with technology, pushing the boundary of what dance can reveal about the human condition in the 21st century.

Currently she is developing an international dance workshop series titled Golem-Labor with the Goethe Institute which works with motion capture technology and movement. Her work has been commissioned by the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, shown at Uferstudios and Tanzfabrik Berlin; she has also given lectures on art+tech at the Republica Digital Technology conference, and Stanford University, Cottbus Technical University, Lüneberg University, and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She previously worked in San Francisco, California, where her work appeared in theatres including ODC San Francisco, the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and the Joe Goode Annex.

Website: carlylave.com
Instagram: @carlylave__

Videos:
Golem Making-Of
Golem Special Edition

In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show

Recorded in Berlin on 07.27.20

Episode 4: The Writing Life. Welcome to a very cozy episode of In Process, as we settle down with Patty Kim Hamilton, and venture into the uncertain limbos -- as wells as the heavens -- of poetry and playwriting. A playwright, director-dramaturg, pisces and performance-maker, Patty is currently completing her masters in Playwriting at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She received her Bachelors with Honors from Stanford University, where she was the recipient of the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for Work Addressing Social Issues. She has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Crowded Fire, HAU, the English Theater Berlin, Ars Nova and with Gob Squad.

As Playwright-in-Residence in 2019 at the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, CT, she developed her play ‘Peeling Oranges’. Her play ‘ICH HÄTTE GERN ZU MEINER LEBZEIT KEIN KRIEG (I don't wanna experience war)’ will premiere at Stadttheater Bremerhaven, June 2021 (delayed due to COVID). Her play 'when it hurts // this body is just a house' was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was selected for Cimientos 2021 Play Development Program. Her play ‘Sex Play’ will have a staged reading in October 2020 at the HfMT in Hamburg. Her work exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political - meditating on bodies, family, language and the taboo. Through her writing, she attempts to facilitate communal healing, honest/transformative reflection and joy.

Website: pattykimhamilton.com
Instagram: @grumpy.love

Videos:
The Crane Wives (performance excerpt)

In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show

Recorded in Berlin on 08.07.20

Episode 3: Engineering The Sonic Zone. We're off to the ears today with Anna Tskhovrebov, an experimental musician among other things such as audio engineer at Ableton, live visuals programmer, and avid bird-listener. Anna graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.A. in Music, Science, and Technology. She moved continents to Berlin, to work alongside Robert Henke on designing the graphics for his retro-futuristic audiovisual show, CBM 8032 AV, before settling in to program instruments and effects at music software company Ableton. Anna also composes her own music under the name viewfinder, sampling unexpected and haunting sounds from our everyday environments, and putting them in conversation with each other in funky, IDM-inspired soundscapes.

viewfinder Soundcloud
CBM 8032 AV

Videos:
CBM 8032 AV Doc (FACT Magazine)

In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show

Recorded in Berlin on 08.02.20

Episode 1: Independent Filmmaking. Welcome to In Process! A series of intimate, long-form conversations with emerging Stanford artists. For our inaugural episode, we meet Diante Singley, who was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University in 2014. Already a young veteran of the L.A. media scene, he has worked variously as an assistant cameraman, a production designer and most recently as the personal assistant for directors Eli Roth and Michael Dougherty.

As a filmmaker, Singley has written and directed a variety of documentary shorts and short films that have tackled race, sexuality, economic status and identity. He has won numerous awards including Best New Filmmaker at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, as well as an audience award for his short Downpour Summer at the HollyShorts film festival. He is currently a directing fellow for Film Independent’s PROJECT INVOLVE program.

Website: www.diantesingley.com
Instagram: @diantesingley @downpoursummerfilms

Videos:
Remote Capture (short film)
Downpour Summer (short film)

In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show

Recorded in Berlin/L.A. on 08.06.2020