Supplemental Information: Episode 2
Tonal Polymodality in Tool's AEnima
Frank Nawrot (Wichita State University) & Matthew Ferrandino (Oklahoma State University)
Release Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023
Author's Website (Nawrot)
Author's Website (Ferrandino)
Production Credits
Team Lead: Anna Rose Nelson
Production Lead: David Thurmaier
Peer Reviewer: Ciro Scotto
Special Thanks: Jennifer Beavers, Megan Lyons
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Bio: Dr. Frank Nawrot is a composer, guitarist, and music researcher. His original music is inspired by Kid Cudi, Julia Wolfe, Meshuggah, Julius Eastman, and Prince. The recording of Frank’s opera, Don Henry, about a Kansas student who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War, was released on all podcast platforms in August 2022. Frank’s research interests include popular music, composition pedagogy, and minimalism. His research has been presented by SMT and the Society for Minimal Music and his music has been performed across the globe from New York to Hong Kong. He also runs a short-story podcast, Tiny Tales.
Bio: Matthew Ferrandino is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Theory at Oklahoma State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music theory. Matthew holds a PhD in music theory from the University of Kansas where he completed his dissertation "A Narratology of Music Video in 2021." His research focuses on the analysis of popular music and has been published in Music Theory Online, SMT-V, and Intégral.
Keywords: Tool, polymodal, mode mixture, popular music, blues, metal