WDET has produced “The Pleasure of Sound,” which it bills as an independent film that captures two days with Jad Abumrad and Matthew Dear as they make music and explore the creativity of their works.
Dear is an electronic musician. Abumrad is from Radiolab, which is a "show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience."
The film is produced by WDET, Mikel Ellcessor, and The Work in partnership with Ghostly International.
A WDET press release says:
Shot entirely at Detroit locations (Wayne State University, The Detroit Design Center, Movement Electronic Music Festival, The Empowerment Plan and WDET), the film also features original recordings of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians.
Abumrad's bio on Radiolab is as follows:
The son of a scientist and a doctor, Jad Abumrad did most of his growing up in Tennessee, before studying creative writing and music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio. Following graduation, Abumrad wrote music for films, and reported and produced documentaries for a variety of local and national public radio programs, including On The Media, Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero."
Dear was born in Texas. He moved to Michigan as a teenager and became intrigued by the sound of Detroit Techno.
