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  • Bitches Brew: Behind The Magic of Miles Davis. (Music History)

    Writer Adam Shatz delves deeper into the mystery behind the legendary trumpeter with Miles Ahead, a film directed by Don Cheadle and Bitches Brew by George Grella Jr. for the New York Review of Books.  In 1975, Miles Davis put down his trumpet and retired. Davis was famous for his dramatic silences in performance: the notes he chose not to play…

  • Rewind, Selecta: Discovering The Soundtrack To Your Life. (Personal Essay, Music History)

    I got an email yesterday from somebody asking for a recommended soundtrack that encompasses the music on my blog. When I first started DG, I had just finished shooting a film in Kenya. I had spent my savings, packed up my things, moved out of my studio apartment in Toronto’s increasingly gentrified Queen St. East neighborhood, slowly…

  • Drowning in a Sea of Information: A personal account and analysis of information overload. (Guest Writer, Technology)

    The following piece is courtesy of guest author Clayton d’Arnault.  Originally published on  Digital Culturist.  If you have an idea for a story for Digitized, feel free to email me. All photographs for this story courtesy of Laura G. Diaz.   Information overload is something that’s been plaguing me for a while. It was only…

  • Clara Venice: Theramin Ninja From The Future. (Music)

    There’s a haunting, iconic scene that happens inside the 2001 noir hit, Mulholland Drive. It’s when two central characters from the film end up in a theatre to witness a woman perform Roy Orbison’s Crying in Spanish, a cappella style. It’s a disarming scene, so raw in emotion that the viewer almost feels uncomfortable watching…

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