Foundtracks

Foundtracks is a creative mash-up, appropriating from the worlds of literature, music and film to create a tangible object from a “what if?” alternate universe. For the academically inclined, I call this Transmedia arti(fiction). The idea for Foundtracks came about like many ideas do, boucing around, spinning and tumbling before landing some place unexpected. At some point I became curious about why the book, The Catcher in the Rye (TCITR) had never been made into a movie. Eventually I discovered J.D. Salinger just wasn’t going to let that happen. What about a sequel to the book, though? What happened to the characters later in life? I imagined what that would be like, but I could never write a novel myself. Could someone take the idea of a sequel to the original book and make it into a movie? Again, not something I could do, but a movie would have a soundtrack, right? Maybe I could put that together.

And so that’s how the Foundtracks project got started. I owe thanks to several people who were supportive and/or helpful on this, especially Dave Levy and Robert Ricci.