A former student of award-winning author Mike Davis and photographer Allan Sekula, Cross was the photo editor of the music magazine Wax Poetics from 2004 to 2010, and Rap Pages from 1993 to 1998. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vibe, the Fader, and the Wire.B+ is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and cofounder of Mochilla, a production house whose output includes feature-length music documentaries, music videos, music, and photography. Cross was the director of photography for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, and he has made several feature-length music films and many music videos. He has photographed more than one hundred album covers for artists such as Company Flow, Damian Marley, David Axelrod, DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus, Eazy-E, J Dilla, Jurassic 5, Madlib, Mos Def, and Q-Tip. In this unique photographic mix tape, an extraordinary web of associations becomes apparent, revealing connections among people, cultures, and their creations.Д«rian 'B+' Cross is one of the most prominent music photographers working today. He links vendors of rare vinyl with iconic studio wizards, ranging from J Dilla and Brian Wilson to Leon Ware and George Clinton, David Axelrod to Shuggie Otis, Bill Withers to Ras Kass, Biggie Smalls to Timmy Thomas, DJ Shadow to Eugene McDaniels, and DJ Quik to Madlib. Like a DJ seamlessly overlapping and entangling disparate musics, Cross brings together LA Black Arts poetry and Jamaican dub, Brazilian samba and Ethiopian jazz, Cuban timba and Colombian cumbia. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visual music, putting photos next to each other to evoke unseen images and create new histories. Your storyВ needsВ to be told.and it can be.with the power of ghost notes.Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+'s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. A video must aspire to do more than justВ reachВ your desired audience, itВ must reach them on an emotional level and motivate them to take action. GhostNoteCreative's mission is to,В as they say in music circles, 'play for the song'. ItвЂ™s about using intuition and imagination from the onset of collaboration in orderВ toВ makeВ yourВ vision and message come to life.

Its about getting that extra shot andВ being patient enough to findВ that gem of a soundbite at the end of a long day of interviews.

From conceptualizing, to writing, toВ capturing images, to editing a story that flows with the proper rhythmвЂ¦.it is most often the softer, less recognizable things you doВ that create a message that is truly felt, not just seen and heard. You may wonder how ghost notes exist withinВ the visual medium? Ghost notes, toВ me, areВ those subtle вЂњnotes'В you playВ throughout the creative process. If you have ever listened to a James Brown record, or focused on the snare drum in Led ZeppelinвЂ™s вЂњFool in the RainвЂќ, it was most likely the ghost notes that drew you in. Ghost notes are more feltВ thanВ heard.they bring depth and fullness to a groove. BeingВ a drummer, I've learned thatВ back beats and accents are immediately understood,В whereas ghost notes possess immense power in their subtlety. In music, a ghost note isВ played softer thanВ other notes.

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