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Musical collage with Mad Professor, Suzanne Ciani, Matthew E. White and Georgia Anne Muldrow

Mad Professor, Suzanne Ciani, Matthew E. White and Georgia Anne Muldrow discuss how listening to music lets you travel through time.

Mad Professor, Suzanne Ciani, Matthew E. White and Georgia Anne Muldrow discuss how listening to music lets you travel through time, packaging their work into album form, and which part of the music-making process they enjoy the most.

Matthew E. White is a singer, songwriter, producer, and arranger from Richmond, Virginia. He blends folk, gospel, AOR, rock, disco, and psychedelic sounds. He鈥檚 also worked with the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Bedouine, Bon Iver鈥檚 Justin Vernon, and Slow Club.

Suzanne Ciani is a Grammy-nominated composer, musician, and sound designer. In the 1970s, she invented the world famous 鈥榩op and pour鈥 sound effect for Coca Cola. In 1980, she was the first woman hired to score a major Hollywood feature when she composed the music for The Incredible Shrinking Woman. She鈥檚 also a recipient of the Moog Innovation Award for her work with synthesizers, and is a former host of this very show.

Georgia Anne Muldrow is an influential part of Los Angeles鈥 hip-hop, jazz, and soul scenes. She鈥檚 released more than 20 albums, and has appeared on tracks with Erykah Badu, Blood Orange, and Robert Glasper. Mos Def is a fan, saying 鈥渟he鈥檚 something else鈥 like Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald鈥.

Mad Professor is a legendary dub reggae producer and engineer. Born in Guyana, he was nicknamed Mad Professor due to his fascination with electronics, and when he moved to London he collected mixing and recording equipment to make his first studio in his living room. Since then he鈥檚 released hundreds of recordings and worked with artists including Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry, Sly & Robbie, Grace Jones, Massive Attack, and Sade, before setting up the largest Black-owned studio complex in the UK.

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Matthew E White (Credit: Shawn Brackbill), Mad Professor, Georgia Anne Muldrow (Credit: Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images) and Suzanne Ciani (Credit: Dan Wilton)

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