ARTISTS
Frazer Bradshaw
Frazer Bradshaw works as a producer, director and DP in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally and internationally. He attended art school, not film school, and his ideas and approach are centered not on mainstream filmmaking traditions, but on cinema as a way to create art experiences, both narrative and non-narrative.
His sensibilities are rooted in a decade and a half studying Soto Zen. Bradshaw is driven by work that is challenging and authentic, and which makes social and artistic contributions.
Kent Sparling
Kent Sparling is a visual and recording artist born in San Francisco. He has released eight CDs of experimental electro-acoustic music, and composed original scores for feature films by James Gray, Wayne Wang, Eduardo Sanchez, among others. Kent has worked as a sound designer and re-recording mixer at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound for the past 25 years, with credits on more than 180 films.
In addition to his composing, performing and music producing, he also works in pinhole Polaroid photography, monoprints and direct animation experimental film. His first short film was the award-winning ‘alt_view’, realized entirely with personal digital technologies.
Brian McBride
Brian McBride is among the most well-respected and well-loved composers of the ambient musical genre. He has two albums listed in the top twenty of Pitchfork Magazine’s “50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time” (as one half of the musical duo Stars of the Lid ) including the number 6 all-time rank.
Brian’s music has been described as “a blend of wonder and darkness that stays with the listener long after the tones have faded into silence.” Pitchfork has said of his solo work that it is music of “enveloping beauty” with “the true power of a whisper.” We’re elated that Brian has agreed to compose an episode for Presence and to be able to share a sample of that work on this site.
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