📰 Noteworthy stories for today #26
The exciting composer behind the films, Fighting your way out & Mapping Zimbabwe solo.
Some great reads I enjoyed over the last couple of weeks.
The Composer Behind Film’s Most Exciting Music
Not a name I had heard of before, Nicholas Britell has become the most exciting name of film and TV music. With an unconventional career into the industry, his mastery and lack of convention with music has seen him quietly redefine scores of film scores and TV soundtracks. Sometimes you look at a guy and find yourself so totally envious of the adventurousness of their life and the ambitiousness of their work - this is one of those times. The New York Times spent time with Nicholas before the pandemic as he worked on a new score with director Berry Jenkins.
Fighting Your Way Out
I’m a big Boxing fan but I never grew up watching Boxing, I found it in my early twenties and when I did I felt like the kid described in Declan Ryan’s piece as he talks about himself staying up late to watch fights sat square in front of the TV. Boxing is the greatest theatre in the world and as Declan describes it, Black fighters and Irish fighters had a sense of camaraderie as they both battled to break out of prejudice systems. Read the whole piece Escape to Glory here.
The Man Single-Handedly Mapping Zimbabwe
Growing up in the West I take for granted how well documented our countries are, from shops to restaurants, directions to transport links, even Google Streetview. When Tawanda Kanhema originally from Harare in Zimbabwe, now in California, wanted to explore his hometown he drew a blank. So he contacted Google Maps and started a journey to single-handedly document Zimbabwe by speedboat, car, foot and whatever creative way he could think of, read the full inspiring story on NPR here.