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- Curation by: The Matrix via ↴
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Ron Wyman
- City: Cambridge, MA
- Country: United States
My Life
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Bio:
Ron Wyman, founder of ZeroGravity Films, creates documentaries about politics, world culture and the arts. For the past several years he has been working extensively in Africa. Having spent over three decades as a film maker, he has worked as a DP and editor on feature films, is an award winning DP/Producer of documentaries and was freelance for the CNN political division for 16 years. He has also worked for Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth", "Candid Camera" and "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher.
His feature documentary, "Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion" travels with Tuareg nomads of the Sahara Desert and profiles the extraordinary Tuareg guitarist, Bombino. While shooting the film, he also produced Bombino's acclaimed CD, "Agadez" which launched Bombino onto the world stage. His second CD, "Nomad" was produced by Dan Auerbach and was released on Nonesuch Records in 2013, and his latest album, "Deran", recorded in Casablanca was nominated for a 2019 Grammy.
A new film project is in development in partnership with Tunde Jegede, titled "The River Niger Project" and will explore the music culture along the Niger River and will feature many of the legendary musicians of West Africa.
My Media
- Website: http://zerogravityfilms.com
- Website 2: http://fleuveniger.org
- Twitter: agadezmovie
- Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://zerogravityfilms.com/store
- YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/zerogravfilms
Contact Information
- Email: rw@zerogravityfilms.com
- Telephone: 603.498.4039
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Address:
Zero Gravity Films
29 Glenwood Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
More
- Quotes, Notes & Etc. "In Agadez, The Music And The Rebellion Ron Wyman has done an excellent job of not only depicting their life without romanticizing or sentimentalizing it, but showing what they are doing to preserve it in the face of increasingly difficult odds. Follow his camera into one of the harshest environments on earth and meet the people who not only live there, but cherish the freedom it brings them. You will also meet the remarkable musician, Omara “Bombino” Moctar, whose story of exile and return is typical for his generation, but whose talent is unique".
Clips
► Matrix headquarters in Salvador, Bahia. Interview is by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio. Pre Brazil I "rescued" royalties for Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Ray Barretto, Airto Moreira, Earl Carroll of The Cadillacs, Rob Royer of Bread, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), and others.
► The work was a variation of industrial espionage; record companies didn't play fair so neither did we. Here I work with musicians who don't earn royalties but who are no less amazing for it. The matrix is a means of leveraging a sociological/mathematical phenomenon to make them discoverable and accessible from far from their native ground. But for the system to work for them, it has to work for everybody. And every truly creative artist in it means more valid pathways to the Brazilians, and to everybody else.
► Wikipedia: A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other and → most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps ←
► The Matrix: A small-world network re a type of mathematical graph in which most artists are not curators of one another, but the curators of any given artist are likely to be curators of each other and → most artists can be reached from every other artist by a small number of hops or steps ←
