Shelly Blake-Plock
Shelly Blake-Plock (born October 8, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland), is an American entrepreneur and musician. Work Shelly Blake-Plock is co-founder of Yet Analytics. Shelly Blake-Plock was an educator and education blogger. A founder of the Baltimore EdTech Forum, Blake-Plock was blogger-in-chief at TeachPaperless and taught in the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Music Blake-Plock's musical work includes elements of folk and blues as well as free improvisation, electronica, and unorthodox recording techniques. His early work consisted “almost entirely of rudimentary home recordings of songs committed to tape as they were being written, never to be refined or recast. Partially inspired by the field recordings of Alan Lomax, Blake [used] a one-take method to get back to the essence, as he sees it, of folk music, which once hinged on a much closer relationship between audiences and those who made it. In this light, his works-in-progress can be seen as a rather unpretentious attempt to rehumanize (and even bring the 'folk' back into) folk music." Around 2004, Blake-Plock's work took on a more wholly improvised quality seemingly inspired both by European Free Improvisation as well as American noise and performance art. Blake-Plock's 2007 album The Violencestring is a musical narrative