The Berklee professor and a number of Grammy Award winner will go in-depth on the historical past and the evolution of hip-hop manufacturing throughout 5 many years

BOSTON, MA (AUGUST 3, 2023) – Berklee School of Music marks a milestone yr for hip-hop with the occasion Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop: An Interview with Prince Charles Alexander, going down on August 11 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in The Loft at 939 Boylston Avenue, Boston.

The dialog spotlights Berklee professor Prince Charles Alexander, a three-time Grammy Award-winning recording and mixing engineer who is among the most sought-after producers within the historical past of hip-hop and R&B, with greater than 40 platinum and gold certifications from the Recording Trade Affiliation of America. As knowledgeable within the business for over three many years, Alexander has accrued a wealth of frontline expertise and nuanced insights from each his time as a music producer and audio engineer with Unhealthy Boy Information, the label based by Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, the place he labored with such famous person artists as Combs, The Infamous B.I.G., and Mary J. Blige.

“Innovation is actually on the coronary heart of what hip-hop is and it at all times seeks to search out that bleeding edge,” stated Alexander. “Hip-hop artists and producers have at all times embraced new expertise – turntables, the drum machine, synthesizers, samplers, autotune, melodyne and all of the technological developments that at the moment are widespread within the fashionable recording course of. Hip-hop is the style that sought that artistic intersection of a robust message and the implementation of latest expertise. Conversations like this symposium are essential to deliver readability to how hip-hop informs our understanding of mainstream music and modern manufacturing.”

Jonny Guekguezian B.M. ’23, a former expertise ambassador in Berklee’s Profession Middle and co-founder of the Berklee Hip-Hop Membership, will interview Alexander and function the moderator for the dialogue, which incorporates a chance for viewers members to contribute questions. The dialog is partially framed round themes from Alexander’s guide Contained in the Beats, an academic and instructive dive into the technological evolution of hip-hop from its origins within the Bronx to its many fashionable iterations the world over.

Alexander teaches a number of programs in Berklee’s Music Manufacturing & Engineering division and for Berklee On-line together with Hip Hop Manufacturing for Information, a centered examination of the technical abilities utilized in modern studios that compliments different curriculum choices similar to Hip-Hop Roots and Routes, Hip-Hop Writing and Manufacturing, Hip-Hop Music Schooling, and Hip-Hop for Social Change Ensemble. Alexander seeks to advance the codification of the hip-hop style and its key musical and manufacturing parts as a part of his bigger mission to drive the enlargement of hip-hop as a professional and significant piece of the final academia and performing arts training landscapes.

“Proper now, hip-hop is just not embraced accurately from the standpoint of academia,” stated Alexander. “Certainly one of my targets as an educational and educator is to outline a unified language of hip-hop that may be built-in into the choices of music training and different establishments as a part of their STEM curricula. The evolution of hip-hop mirrors the evolution of the broader artistic and entrepreneurial spirit of music. We are able to study a lot from hip-hop after we are attempting to determine the place we got here from, what we need to do, what we need to obtain as artists and producers, and the way we are able to get there.”

This occasion is free for most of the people and registration is presently open. For extra info and to register, please go to the occasion web page.