![]() This path was a route from Bisi's native Upper East Side, through the downtown Manhattan arts scene, and on to Brooklyn, which even in 1979 was fast becoming the only place to get affordable industrial space. Without Eno giving us the money, I might not have gone down this path." Especially being nineteen, I wasn't thinking of anything other than doing what I was happy doing in that moment. "I wonder if he appreciates what he jumpstarted, because I'm not sure I would have gone all the way without him. His contribution is really remarkable," says Bisi. Because without former Roxy Music member and avant-garde notable Brian Eno, who was living in Manhattan in the mid-'70s and met Laswell and Bisi there, BC Studio might never have happened. But there's one artist who is a pivotal figure in BC's tale, which extends this story of a studio and the man behind it to one about New York City and the slow but steady decline of its artistic community. The documentary, directed by Sara Leavitt and Ryan Douglass, will see a digital release in August, too.Īrtists from Sonic Youth to Swans, Foetus to Afrika Bambaataa, Dresden Dolls to Violent Femmes, and also Bill Laswell, Bisi's original co-partner - or co-conspirator, as BC was never meant to be a business, but an artists collective - all recorded and created in this cavelike space, which has an eerie well open to whatever murky water flows underneath the building. His amusing and amazing story is told in the documentary Sound And Chaos: The Story of BC Studio, which will premiere in Brooklyn July 12, and Bisi will accompany a screening of the doc at Lincoln Center on June 25 with his own live soundscapes. This "underground" recording studio, located on 3rd Street in the old American Can Company factory in Gowanus, is musician (and one-time graffiti artist) Martin Bisi's life's work, begun in the late Seventies when he was nineteen years old. The story of BC Studio spans decades and genres, but without one particular musician it might never have happened. GOWANUS'S BC STUDIO CONNECTS WHITNEY HOUSTON, SONIC YOUTH & MORE IN NEW DOC This event is presented by El Borracho Bookings & Sü on javascript to use the drop-down menus. Disparate sounds – from hip-hop to noise-rock to the far reaches of the avant-garde – have added up to a logical whole under the umbrella of BC Studio. The studio’s idiosyncrasies are undeniably partly responsible for the sounds created there.īisi has personally recorded landmark music there by Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane, Afrika Bambaataa, Herbie Hancock, JG Thirwell, John Zorn, US Maple, Fred Frith, Boredoms and so many more. ![]() It’s a cavernous space located in an industrial building near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Having founded BC Studio in 1981 with Bill Laswell and Brian Eno, Bisi still owns and operates it to this day. ‘BC35’, on Bronson Recordings, includes current and former members of Sonic Youth, White Hills, Swans, Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop, Live Skull, Shilpa Ray, Pop 1280, Violent Femmes, The Dresden Dolls, Alice Donut, Lubricated Goat, Insect Ark, Parlor Walls and more.īC35: The 35 Year Anniversary Of BC Studio by BC35 These tracks were mixed, edited and expanded over several months, with care by Bisi and other ‘BC35’ participants. There were also some long-awaited reunions, like 80’s No Wave band Live Skull (as New Old Skull), and mashups of Swans and Cop Shoot Cop members. The contributions of close to 50 people ranged from a single held vocal note, to a full song arrangement. ![]() Bisi and his collaborator Genevieve Fernworthy invited BC Studio veterans from across the decades to participate - including the Berlin-based members of Bisi’s band Diego Ferri + Oliver Rivera Drew - and assembled them into ensembles for improvisation or especially written songs in front of an audience of supporters.
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