Program

Challenge Programs: Creating Humanities Communities Grants

Period of Performance

2/1/2017 - 1/31/2021

Funding Totals (matching)

$90,000.00 (approved)
$90,000.00 (offered)
$90,000.00 (awarded)


Beyond the Beat

FAIN: ZR-256732-17

Spy Hop (Salt Lake City, UT 84101-2725)
Matt Mateus (Project Director: February 2017 to May 2024)

Beyond the Beat, an educational program that provides youth with the musicological training and technology necessary to produce short radio documentary programs exploring individual pieces of music.

Through the Beyond the Beat radio documentary project, Spy Hop’s Loud and Clear Audio students will create 60, three-minute radio documentaries examining the social, political and cultural context surrounding the inspiration for and creation of a specific piece of music. Under the guidance of a musicologist from Weber State University and Spy Hop media arts mentors, students will be asked to research, write and produce a complete mini-doc, which will be distributed weekly via the project radio partner, KRCL 90.9, reaching 100,000+ listeners throughout the project.





Associated Products

Spy Hop's Beyond the Beat (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Spy Hop's Beyond the Beat
Director: Connor Estes
Producer: Connor Estes
Abstract: Spy Hop’s Loud and Clear Audio students created radio documentaries examining the social, political and cultural context surrounding the inspiration for and creation of a specific piece of music.
Date: 08/20/2020
Primary URL: https://soundcloud.com/spy-hop-production/sets/loud-and-clear-beyond-the-beat-19-20
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Web

Spy Hop's Beyond the Beat (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Spy Hop's Beyond the Beat
Director: Connor Estes
Producer: Connor Estes
Abstract: Spy Hop’s Loud and Clear Audio students created radio documentaries examining the social, political and cultural context surrounding the inspiration for and creation of a specific piece of music.
Date: 01/24/19
Primary URL: https://soundcloud.com/spy-hop-production/sets/beyond-the-beat-loud-and-clear
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Web

Sincerely, the Universe - Liner Notes (Report)
Title: Sincerely, the Universe - Liner Notes
Author: Carey Campbell
Abstract: A Beyond the Beat project where Musicology students participating in Spy Hop's year long music program examined their lyrics through a humanities lens.
Date: 07/24/19
Primary URL: https://weberstate.app.box.com/s/ej10ypp1631xkwu0sv48na0p674nuf45/file/496403775999
Access Model: Open