Author Archive for: ‘Peter Davis’

Abstract From earliest times, diamonds have fascinated the purveyors of mass entertainment. Through the impact of literature and, later, cinema, and with the decisive intervention of manipulative advertising, diamonds came to signify romance, wealth, and social success in the popular mind. From the nineteenth century, diamonds were mostly found in Africa, a location wrapped in the exotic and quick with …

Matti, how did you become a silent film musician and composer? When I was studying music at Södra Latin high school in Stockholm in 1989, the school’s film club asked me to accompany Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin since I was a classically trained pianist. I took a bundle of notes with me and tried to follow the film as best I could. …