The Joy Project
The Joy Project (pka W. Keith Duffy) mixes a variety of electronic styles, … Read Full Bio ↴The Joy Project (pka W. Keith Duffy) mixes a variety of electronic styles, including drum and bass, lounge muzak, samba, disco, funk...and am radio pop hits from 1973.
In a review, Ink19.com says: "It's a little loungy, totally filtered, '70s-type porn music cool, groovy with chunky beats and smooth, rain-slicked melody. This is the type of music that if we all didn't know you were the coolest cat in the world, we might beat you up for listening to." Including both instrumentals and vocals, The Joy Project's most obvious influences include classics like The Hughes Corporation and The Andrea True Connection, as well as contemporaries Fantastic Plastic Machine and Towa Tei.
Although the music is home-baked, published, and distributed exclusively by independent labels, many tracks have gone on to have lives of their own, including licensing deals with HBO's "The Sopranos," the Billy Kent comedy "The Oh in Ohio" starring Danny Devito, and The Oxygen Network's "Tempting Adam."
For his day job, W. Keith Duffy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. Connected to his work as The Joy Project, he has published research examining the rhetoricity of music and the use of digital recording technology in traditional postsecondary writing classes. He teaches academic writing for the social sciences, as well as courses in classical rhetoric, English education, and writing pedagogy. His refereed research articles include "Sampling as Citing: Digital Recording Technology in the Writing Classroom," "A Pedagogy of Composing: The Rhetoric of Electronic Music," and "Sound Arguments: Composing Words and Music."
He is (sadly) not related to Keith Duffy of Boyzone infamy.
The Joy Project Discography
Whatever Happened to Ultramarine by The Joy Project, 2009, Del Chapel Digital (12-track CD)
[email me at wkduffy(at)yahoo(dot)com, tell me you're a fan (or at least interested), your address, and if I have any of the above CDs left, I'll send you one!]
"Domingo de Chuva" feat. Juju Stulbach, Diva Brazil, 2005, Streetbeat Records (CD)
Trip to Style City, 2004, Bar-None Records (14-track CD, Rhapsody, iTunes, Yahoo Music, etc.)
"Sleeping Alone Samba," Nusounds, 2003, Good Looking Organisation (CD and Vinyl)
"Promise Is," Global Lounge Vol. 2, 2003, Neurodisc Records (CD)
"Example #4: Love," Café Lounge, 2003, Neurodisc Records (CD)
Way Out Here, 2001, Neurodisc / Priority Records (14-track CD)
In a review, Ink19.com says: "It's a little loungy, totally filtered, '70s-type porn music cool, groovy with chunky beats and smooth, rain-slicked melody. This is the type of music that if we all didn't know you were the coolest cat in the world, we might beat you up for listening to." Including both instrumentals and vocals, The Joy Project's most obvious influences include classics like The Hughes Corporation and The Andrea True Connection, as well as contemporaries Fantastic Plastic Machine and Towa Tei.
Although the music is home-baked, published, and distributed exclusively by independent labels, many tracks have gone on to have lives of their own, including licensing deals with HBO's "The Sopranos," the Billy Kent comedy "The Oh in Ohio" starring Danny Devito, and The Oxygen Network's "Tempting Adam."
For his day job, W. Keith Duffy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. Connected to his work as The Joy Project, he has published research examining the rhetoricity of music and the use of digital recording technology in traditional postsecondary writing classes. He teaches academic writing for the social sciences, as well as courses in classical rhetoric, English education, and writing pedagogy. His refereed research articles include "Sampling as Citing: Digital Recording Technology in the Writing Classroom," "A Pedagogy of Composing: The Rhetoric of Electronic Music," and "Sound Arguments: Composing Words and Music."
He is (sadly) not related to Keith Duffy of Boyzone infamy.
The Joy Project Discography
Whatever Happened to Ultramarine by The Joy Project, 2009, Del Chapel Digital (12-track CD)
[email me at wkduffy(at)yahoo(dot)com, tell me you're a fan (or at least interested), your address, and if I have any of the above CDs left, I'll send you one!]
"Domingo de Chuva" feat. Juju Stulbach, Diva Brazil, 2005, Streetbeat Records (CD)
Trip to Style City, 2004, Bar-None Records (14-track CD, Rhapsody, iTunes, Yahoo Music, etc.)
"Sleeping Alone Samba," Nusounds, 2003, Good Looking Organisation (CD and Vinyl)
"Promise Is," Global Lounge Vol. 2, 2003, Neurodisc Records (CD)
"Example #4: Love," Café Lounge, 2003, Neurodisc Records (CD)
Way Out Here, 2001, Neurodisc / Priority Records (14-track CD)
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