Rachel Patrice on And the Beat Goes On | Award-Winning Score, Story & Creative Process
In this full interview, Rachel Patrice discusses her short film And the Beat Goes On, winner of Best Original Score at the 2025 iDEAL Film Festival. Written and directed by Rachel Patrice Perkins, And the Beat Goes On follows a young man through an off-beat day in New York City — exploring rhythm, feeling, movement, […]
MONA.
For travelers to and fro… Do not be afraid of what you return to, for you have changed in those moments, and nights away. When I first met Dru Blumensheid, I had no idea we would one day create together. Some encounters arrive quietly, almost incidentally, before revealing themselves later as the beginning of something […]
Things Don’t Last Forever — The First Statement from SYGNWAV
When we started SYGNWAV, it wasn’t to launch a label. It was to build a space for transformation — for artists, for ourselves. Our first real test of that vision came with Things Don’t Last Forever, the debut project from Kigh G, released via SYGNWAV. It was more than an album. It was a mirror, a […]
How Quitting Music Led to the Creation of SYGNWAV
In 2019, I nearly quit music. Instead, I founded SYGNWAV—a creative incubator born from burnout, rebirth, and collaboration with artists like Mr. Mercy and Kigh G.
Things Don’t Last Forever: Kigh G and SYGNWAV’s Journey Through Self-Releasing Music
From KIGHDEN to 92599 — The Turn That Defined SYGNWAV After sketching out the KIGHDEN / Kigh Universal duality concept during early branding sessions, we ultimately chose a different path. Instead of dividing Kigh G into light and dark archetypes, we leaned into a more honest expression. The first major release under that direction was […]
ORIGINS: Meeting Kigh G and the Spark Behind SYGNWAV
(Circa 2019) SYGNWAV didn’t start with a business plan—it started with a conversation. In 2019, I met Kigh G (Kai Guingona) on a Wednesday, and we ended up talking about everything from YouTube algorithms to image control. What kind of quality do you want to present? What things are you willing to keep off the […]
WORSE FOR WEAR
Friday the 13th Hunter got a call from fashion show producer Jejuan Narcisse asking if we could create a short film for his Friday the 13th runway — something stylish, surreal, and just unsettling enough to feel honest. There wasn’t a script yet, just a mood. So we did what we always do: built a […]
Frequency Illusions
Frequency Illusions came to us with a clear challenge: their brand identity no longer matched the caliber or clarity of their creative output. Originally launched with a placeholder logo, the studio had since evolved into a refined force in multimedia and marketing, blending music, film, and storytelling. Our task was to translate that evolution into […]
ART.WAV
Skyline College, Bay Area Entrepreneur Center Skyline College approached us to help reinvigorate downtown San Bruno’s cultural footprint by producing a hybrid art and music experience that celebrated local talent. We delivered a full-spectrum creative campaign—from concept to showtime—curating the theme, scripting the show, and managing the visual and audio landscape. Our team led branding, […]
ELEVATED WORLD
Elevated Common Ground, RAP STAMP, SYGNWAV Elevated Common Ground brought us on to help launch Elevated World, an event intended to inspire, uplift, and connect communities. In collaboration with RAP STAMP, ECG, and SYGNWAV, we led visual design across all touchpoints—branding, motion, merch, and set design—while also scripting the experience to build an emotional arc […]