Early this summer, Dr. Thomas Stanley mounted a Kickstarter to fund his current book project: The Execution of Sun Ra - "A personal meditation and scholarly commentary on the late jazz icon's enduring contributions to the beleaguered humans of planet Earth."
Dr. Stanley's most recent update at Kickstarter included a link to the interview below. His update also included the exciting news that the book will include pictures by Lee Santa and perhaps by one-time official Arkestra photographer, Leon Collins.
Guest scholar Thomas Stanley assistant professor of Sound Art and Consciousness in the School of Art at George Mason University discusses his new project, The Execution of Sun Ra.
Biography (Kickstarter)
Thomas Stanley is an assistant professor of sound art and consciousness in the School of Art at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He conducted his doctoral research on Butch Morris and his art of Conduction. He is co-author of George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History and has written and lectured extensively on emerging musical cultures. As an artist, performer, and curator, Stanley has been an integral part of a burgeoning experimental music scene along the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His work attempts to exploit the capacity of sound and music for anchoring, framing, and energizing our subjective experience of macrotemporal texture (history). Currently, within the trio Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind, he constructs and deploys sampled and electronically generated music.
Thomas Stanley is a founding member of Transparent Productions, a not-for-profit volunteer collective that has produced over 200 improvised jazz and experimental music concerts throughout the DC metro area since 1997. He has contributed to Point of Departure and Signal to Noise magazines and is included in the books Live Movies, Erotique Noire, and Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century. Stanley throws it up at musicovermind.org. He is also featured as a source in Stranger, a documentary film about seminal P-Funk and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell.
Thomas Stanley is an assistant professor of sound art and consciousness in the School of Art at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He conducted his doctoral research on Butch Morris and his art of Conduction. He is co-author of George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History and has written and lectured extensively on emerging musical cultures. As an artist, performer, and curator, Stanley has been an integral part of a burgeoning experimental music scene along the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His work attempts to exploit the capacity of sound and music for anchoring, framing, and energizing our subjective experience of macrotemporal texture (history). Currently, within the trio Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind, he constructs and deploys sampled and electronically generated music.
Thomas Stanley is a founding member of Transparent Productions, a not-for-profit volunteer collective that has produced over 200 improvised jazz and experimental music concerts throughout the DC metro area since 1997. He has contributed to Point of Departure and Signal to Noise magazines and is included in the books Live Movies, Erotique Noire, and Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century. Stanley throws it up at musicovermind.org. He is also featured as a source in Stranger, a documentary film about seminal P-Funk and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell.