What style of music does The Next Humanity create?
AMERICAN!
While the music is orchestral, with some pop, country and jazz influence (making it outside the contemporary big pop idiom pigeon holes), the music and soundscape is honestly masterful in performances and sound quality. It reflects the best of American music. Some of it injects cutting edge electronica and traditional small intimate ensembles.
Composed, arranged and recorded from Kansas City to Nashville, to Sweden, to London, to Prague, to LA, the production is world-class.
CAST & CREW PARTY
The Nashville Section Leaders
Featuring
- 5 Highly respected orchestrators including Robin A. Smith, Ric Flauding, Carl Marsh, Christopher Gentle and arranger/conductor Phillip Keveren. Copyist work by Sammy Sanfilippo and Christopher Gentle.
- The Nashville Recording Orchestra featuring David Davidson, concertmaster, & David Angel manager-first violist, guiding strings and winds with soloists including Kevin Bates and Leif Shires.
- Vocalists casted and directed by Tim Davis, vocal director for the TV show Glee, as well as numerous other major movie productions and coach
Orchestral Humans:
Violins-
David Davidson
David Angell
Connie Ellisor
Karen Winkelmann
Mary Kathryn VanOsdale
Janet Darnall
Alicia Enstrom
Carrie Bailey
Jenny Bifano
Ali Hoffman
Zoya Leybin
Louise Morrison
Erin Hall
Maria Conti
WeiTsun Chang
Annaliese Kowers
Jung-Min Shin
French Horns-
Jennifer Kummer
Leslie Norton
Patrick Walle
Violas-
Kristin Wilkinson
Monisa Angell
Betsy Lamb
Hari Bernstein
Patrick Monnius
Chris Farrell
String Bass-
Craig Nelson
Joel Reist
Cellos-
Anthony LaMarchina
Kevin Bate
Paul Nelson
Keith Nicholas
Sari Reist
Nicholas Gold
Flutes-
Erik Gratton
Deanne Little
English Horn-
Somerlie DePasquale
- Featured Singers: Tim Davis, Bill Mullin, Joseph Secchiaroli, Ted Moock, Jason Piper, Summer Joy-Davis, Scott Reed, Jaimee Paul, Melody Joy-Davis
- Rhythm ensemble players including noteworthy interpretive players such:
Piano: Patrick Coil, Rhonda Burton, Bill Mullin
Drums: Danny Gotlieb, Carl Allen
Guitar: Chieli Minucci, Russ Hewitt, Justin Schippern (Pedal Steel)
Bass: Jon Hamer, Brian Allen, Craig Nelson, Mark Burton - A cello valued at $4 million (see social media for the story)
- The tastiest catering services were used
The LA Singers
Joseph Secchiaroli
Jaimee Paul
Bill Mullin
Rhonda & Mark Burton
Recording Quality
- Engineering headed by Kent Hooper, Platinum and Gold Record recipient for Amy Grant & Michael W. Smith with recent The Piano Guys, Brandon Lake and CeCe Winans releases. Assistant engineers; Bryce Roberts, Christian Carollo & Katelyn Prieboy.
- Recordings captured by Kent in the finest acoustic spaces like Ocean Way & Wildwood Studios-Nashville, with adjunct tracks from TD Productions-LA, Fenix Studios-Sweden and CNSO-Prague.
Collaborative Experience by Design
The Next Humanity is a deliberate name for this sonic theater troop, as the world faces an era of determining what it means to be human in the face of artificial intelligence, bio-science advances and trans-human philosophies or ethics.
A culture that values automation over human
talent & inspiration is not culture at all
David Davidson, 1st Violin & Concertmaster
Human kindness, interaction, sympathetic vibrating together to love and have peace beyond understanding is the meaning of life.
Don’t be content to scroll to the next hit of dopamine. Love family & friends to celebrate victories, help them back on their feet when they feel a victim and keep the villains at bay. Especially the ones within us. Seek the human spirit over cold material substitutes.
Organic legacy humanity must prove more reliable, resilient and responsive to our emotional & spiritual needs than any breed of artificial or augmented cyborg living or virtual replacement realities.
Christ showed a new creation we can be, to live in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. In that, as His, we can live F( )REVER. Do you have to believe in G!D like that to take the journey into taking in the musical and more? No, but you may find it helps.
The “collaborative” is a group-dynamic principle, put forth in formal discipline by Joe Pine, a foremost thought-leader in experience design and transformational experiences, established in his best selling book, “The Experience Economy”. Mr. Pine, author and Christian apologist, has been an advising inspiration to the NH collaborative. Aaron Renn and Dave Rodriguez were also guiding lights. Many more resources and guests will be discovered in TNH Collaborative Content Camp.
REAL TIME
RECORDING
David Davidson, Conni Ellisor, Karen Winkelmann
Kristin Wilkinson, Chris Farrell,
Monisa Angell, Elizabeth Lambda
Keven Bate
Jung-Min Shin