Sometimes it’s so unique that it produces music that the other parts of the United States find downright weird. In the area of experimental music and the self-concious interchange between artists and popular musicians, the downtown New York scene is really unique in the United States. Music was a side product of what we were doing, which was expressing anger, frustration, and hatred.Īs far as the density of the city, I don’t know… Saying that anything can be music,then it’s like Well, how about this? if anything can be music? The music scene in New York is so dictated by the Real Estate situation here which is why it gets harder and harder for bands and performers to find a place to perform. New music tends to be extreme, everybody wants something as extreme as possible. It’s extremely difficult to find a place where you can make noise, Over the past year, I’ve had a fixation on trash metalĬertain people are bombarded by media overload. This music seems to epithomize a kind of extremes of emotionality and dynamic level, a legity and formal energy, and the drama of living in a city where so many cultures and so many different people are crowded in a palm one another, influencing each other and exciting. There’s something cacophonous stimulating going on all the time. Go to the CBGB and the doors are falling out ‘cause somebody is raising some rock in there. You walk through the village and you got jazz clubs, the music coming out of one door, you can go down another door and there’s a folk trio singing away in there. Of course I am not racist or sexist, and they’re gonna try to get your attention by screaming obscenities at you, which you’ll usually then throw back of your own, causing possible physical battle or harm for white girl No doubt in or out you’re gonna come across ten fifteen possible minorities. You’re hearing different music, coming out of the houses that you walk by. You walk two blocks in any direction and you are in a different scene, you’re in a different neighborhood. Leaning right on the edge of the best music theater or opera. So the music is just about live phenomena rather than a recorded phenomena. This is no time for you to be downstairs scaring the kids”. He said now listen Chris, “My wife is upstairs having a heart attack. I am very interested in putting performance into music. People come from different backgrounds: rock, jazz, pop…Ī lot of easy listening music, a lot of weird things… I think the unique thing about the New York music scene is that there’s so much variety. Anything that happens anywhere seems to happen in New York. ![]() New York is like sensory overload, isn’t it?Įnergy, anger, angularity, tension, excitement, phonetic quality, and drive. I’ve always been looking and listening for the New York sound. There’s a white noise of the city sounds. There’s just too many different elements appearing all the time and keeping it constantly active and changing. I think that the New York sound is the sound of people looking for cheap apartments, more than anything else. English to Spanish: Put Blood into Music, a film by Charles Atlas
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