OM DENNE EPISODE
What happens when we don’t just remember the past, but we find new ways to bring it back to life?
That idea sits right at the center of today’s conversation. The guest on this episode of Mixtape Chronicles runs a studio focused on archival activation—using photographs, recordings, documents, and other historical materials to create new multimedia projects that connect the past to the present.
Much of that work is rooted in music, including projects connected to the legendary Caffè Lena and jazz great Erroll Garner.
A song can bring back a place, a person, or a version of ourselves we thought we’d forgotten. Archives can do the same—preserving those traces of the past, while also giving us a chance to experience them again in the present.
[Listen along to Jocelyn’s mixtape on Spotify]
Guest Bio:
Jocelyn Rose is a Brooklyn-based jazz artist, GRAMMY Award-nominated producer, and archival remix strategist whose creative practice is rooted in catalog activation. As a performer and composer, she draws deeply from jazz traditions—an evolving, improvisational art form built on reinterpretation, dialogue, and lineage—which has shaped her broader approach to storytelling and creative remix.
Her acclaimed album Heliotrope, reflects her ongoing exploration of American roots music and intergenerational creative exchange.
Alongside her work as an artist, Jocelyn is the founder of Studio Arbo, where she leads multimedia projects that reimagine cultural history through archival storytelling, catalog transformation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Show Notes:
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