Allison Lirish Dean

Kelly Anderson, filmmaker and director of “My Brooklyn”, and producer Allison Lirish Dean, discuss their film about gentrification in downtown Brooklyn.

→ Event: "My Brooklyn" will be screening at reRun Theater in DUMBO from Jan. 4-10. Purchase tickets here.

Video games have surpassed Hollywood movies as a money making industry. And while video game music of yesterday consisted of simple blips and beeps, today game scores are being composed for full orchestras. Allison Lirish Dean explains how video game music has gone from midi to Mozart.

In the 19th century, a picture of a river or a forested mountain might be considered overwhelming in its own right, too much for the senses to absorb. Allison Lirish Dean takes a look at that time, and talks to a contemporary painter who plays with the landscape ...

Allison Dean explores how the ancient Greeks' model of the structure of the universe still shapes our music.

(Originally aired: January 10, 2002)

Years of detective work by music scholar Helga Thoene revealed secret messages in the solo violin music of Johann Sebastian Bach. On the album, Morimur, violinist Christoph Poppen and the Hilliard Ensemble interweave the newly discovered melodies with the existing violin music — with controversial results.

Allison Dean explores how the ancient Greeks' model of the structure of the universe still shapes our music.

To produce their upcoming album, underground hip-hop artists Mike Ladd and Nat Gosman looked to avant-garde classical music for their samples and beats. 

In honor of the centennial of Ruth Crawford Seeger's birth, we look at her career as an avant-garde composer who started an urban folk revival movement.

Producer Allison Dean listens to the strange sounds and rousing tunes of the non-conformist American composer and musical inventor who would have turned 100 this month.