James Carson Director (Cabin Music)

Pianist and filmmaker James Carson has developed a new form of music and for the last eleven years has been producing and directing Cabin Music, a documentary feature film having its world premiere at DOC NYC 2022. While attending the New England Conservatory in Boston, studies with Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, and the poet Robert Creeley led James to walk away from music and backpack and farm overland from Spain to Japan. On his return to Northern Alberta, Canada, he then spent five years designing, building, and practicing in a remote strawbale cabin. The musical result was multilayered, detailed, meditative, and harmonious. Cabin Music is his first film.