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7.Audio Documentary: Gathering Footage and Interviewees.

-Photographer and Musician Thomas Piper At ‘In Plain Sight’ Block Party

Upon arriving in New York, I knew that I was able to meet potential interview subjects through my friend in Brooklyn who is heavily involved in the Beats scene in NYC. 

The Beats scene seemed to be the natural evolution of some of the original collectives that inhabited the five boroughs in the late 1970s-1980s (see page on Nelson George for more information). The group is seemed to not be a collective as such, but rather a meeting place for artists who broadly inhabited hip-hop, rap and many other genres that are closely linked into each others geographical histories.

The first place that I went looking for subjects was ‘In Plain Sight’s’ second annual block party in Brooklyn. Block party is closely linked to the culture of hip-hop  and I felt that it’s atmosphere was perfect for the kind of people I was looking for.

IN PLAIN SIGHT BLOCK PARTY

-Review article from the block party (my main point of contact with organiser nothing_neue.)

My initial idea was to try and record the interviewees at the block party, as my equipment would allow for portability and focused sound (see experiments section for more information). However, as I met my potential interviewees, I decided it would be better to develop a relationship and line of questioning unique to each of them. So I spent my time at the party meeting people and exchanging numbers.

GATHERING ‘FOOTAGE’

-’nothing_neue’, playing at In Plain Sight Block Party

As I met my interviewees at the block party, I arranged locations to meet each of them.

I was lucky to have two of them in the same location in one night: 

Sunnae Cheeba and Brujo Boogie are part of a collective called Uptown Vinyl Supreme, and they happened to be hosting an event shortly after my arrival in the states.

- Sunnae Cheeba and Brujo Boogie

As I interviewed them at their event, I made sure to get them move outside, so that they were clear, even if there was noise in the background.

The interviews were a success, and I was pleased with how clear their vocals were. You can look back over to my experimentation section to hear how I achieved this.

Next, I contacted the organiser of In Plain Sight, nothing_neue in order to set up an interview with him. He invited me to his house in Brooklyn to record his portion of the documentary.

As a producer, I decided to conduct a two-fold interview with nothing_neue; one that generated content for my own website, and one that would in turn generate some interesting interview topics for the documentary.

-The interview I conducted with nothing_neue for gigsoupmusic.com

Sound recording conditions were much more favourable, and I achieved a great audio recording, free of all other noise factors.

This freeness of background noise influenced the general design of the documentary quite heavily. See section on experimentation for more information on how I used music in my documentary.

Because there was alot of ‘empty space’ in the soundscape, I later decided to use the music of a few of the participants to make for a more rich and interesting experience. My research into the BBC Podcast series ‘Soul Music’ also influenced this technique. See section for more details. 

My final interviewee was Radicule, a producer and DJ who lived and worked in upstate New York.

Once again, I located a bar in central Manhattan that would be both quiet and easy to get to for Radicule.

Again, I used my home microphone set up to achieve the result I wanted; clear sound with a small amount of background noise.

Like nothing_neue, I kept my recorder running and also generated enough content to create a full written interview for my website:

-My interview with Radicule for gigsoupmusic.com

After I had completed the extensive selection of interviews with the participants I took a break to enjoy the rest of my time in New York. I had listened back to all the interviews and found that the quality of the topics covered were to a high standard and that I didn’t require pick ups.

-Interviews in Logic Project (2016)

Idea for vinyl

Upon working out how to present the finished product, I decided to take a two fold approach.

1. Firstly I intended to contact Resonance FM to attempt to get a radio airing for the documentary. I felt that it’s work best in the same format as the ‘Soul Music Series’; a stereo mixed audio piece.

2. Upon speaking to many of the interviewees, I discovered that many of them used vinyl still to DJ on.  To thank them all for their help and support, I decided to make the documentary short enough to be pressed onto a vinyl that each of them would receive a copy of. 

3. After doing some digging I came across ‘One Cut Vinyl’ a company in London that would press less than ten copies for under £200. I decided to go for it, and intend to get the vinyl pressed in the new year. 

Picture diary and it’s failure

As I was proceeding through the project, I spent a great deal of time collecting pictures with three disposable cameras. The reason I chose to use these cameras was because I found that they created a grainy and nostalgic aesthetic that I wanted to reference for the project’s cover. I spent time taking pictures of buildings and places around New York. The idea was to eventually turn the pictures into the front cover of my vinyl press of the documentary (see above).

However, I found out late on that the cameras required much more light to collect pictures and most of them were ruined. However, one image that I took would end up becoming the front cover anyway:

The picture, a graffiti piece of artist Frieda Carlo showed off the incredible blending of old and new in New York Culture and I was very happy to have this image as the front cover.

See below for more pictures that I took of research locations in NYC:

-Colney Island, NYC

Colney Island, NYC

Downtown World Trade Centre Area, NYC

Mural, South Bronx, NYC

Sidestreet, Brooklyn, NYC

Mildred’s Cafe, Brooklyn, NYC

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Introduction

I’m nothing_neue, hailing from Brooklyn New York.

I make beats, remixes and digital art. This blog is one of many ways to keep track. I’m also on other websites

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