The Drunken Unicorn, 736 Ponce De Leon Ave. building near Brooklyns Gowanus Canal, the studios idiosyncrasies are. Bisi has worked with many influential musicians, including Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn and the Dresden Dolls. BC Studio the Brooklyn studio Bisi founded in 1979 with friends Brian Eno and. A long list of seminal underground musicians - Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Fab Five Freddy, John Zorn, Foetus, Unsane, Swans, Cop Shoot Cop, Helmet, and more - have soaked up Bisi’s sonically caustic touch during the most cutting-edge stages of their careers.Īs a recording artist, Bisi embraces a more ornate sound and vision that blends layers upon layers of rhythms and textures into his recordings and performances.īisi is currently on the road, joined by drummer Dave Miller and keyboard and bass player Dylan Sparrow, giving a nod to two new albums this year, the second volume of the BC35 sessions (released in April), and a new solo album titled Solstice, built around conceptual themes of the "Summer Solstice" and the "Winter Solstice."įor this show, expect a real-time exploration of Bisi’s sound, vision, and legacy. A report from the Pratt Center for Community Development, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, found that the proportion of Latino people living in the Gowanus area dropped to 25 percent from 35 percent. Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio (3) 1 h 16+ For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. ( Michael Gira, leader of Swans, is the most notable interviewee aside from Laswell.For nearly 40 years, Martin Bisi has carved out a singularly avant-garde path behind the recording console, working as a producer, engineer, songwriter, and improviser from his BC Studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Even Sonic Youth, who recorded multiple records with Bisi, are absent - with the exception of drummer Bob Bert, who was only briefly with the band. Only one of those five boldfaces, D.ST, appears here throughout, the really famous players in this studio’s story - Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, The Beastie Boys - are beyond the filmmakers’ reach as interview subjects. One of their recordings with the later wound up being fodder for Grand Mixer DS.T‘s historic turntable manipulations on Herbie Hancock‘s Rockit. 'BC Studio is a miracle. BC35 refers to the weekend of performances and resulting album marking the 35 year anniversary of BC Studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. (It was Bisi’s first gig Eno was already a star.) Soon he and Laswell met some of the men turning rap into a movement, cutting records with Afrika Bambaataa and Fab Five Freddy. Sketchy ‘hood notwithstanding, a 17 year-old Bisi talked Brian Eno into recording with him there. You can click on any of these 6 studio apartments for rent in Gowanus to find more information about the neighborhood, schools, public transit, availability, and more.
This underground recording studio, located on. To hear former studio manager Victoria Galvez tell it, the neighborhood was straight from The Warriors - deserted save for packs of feral dogs and gangs like “The Confederates,” who wore Civil War caps. One simple search of the inventory of over 1 million currently available rentals should be enough to help you find the Brooklyn efficiency apartment of your dreams. The story of BC Studio spans decades and genres, but without one particular musician it might never have happened. Bisi was affiliated with Bill Laswell‘s Material, “a band soon to become a production company” in the late ’70s searching for a recording space large enough to double as an apartment, he rented an old building near Brooklyn’s famously toxic Gowanus Canal.
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