Dear BFF: The Intersection of Jazz, Synth, & Storytelling

Dear BFF: The Intersection of Jazz, Synth, & Storytelling
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Episode 2 - The Intersection of Jazz, Synth, & Storytelling
Hosted by Joanna C. Valente, featuring Jeffrey Alan Carter

Check out our review of SANDY’s first album, Jeff’s band, and one of his music-film compositions here.

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Photo: Joanna C. Valente


Jeffrey Alan Carter is a musician, composer, and freelance sound designer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is also one of the founding members of the electronic group, SANDY. His sonic aesthetic can be described as organic yet, industrial with nostalgic shades of light and dark qualities achieved through his use of synthesis. Check out his website here.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea(Operating System, 2017), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), Xenos(Agape Editions, 2016), and the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the managing editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST, Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente