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This is an excerpt of a half hour show, Riverside Drive, which is in turn part of a series I produced for Brown Student Radio called Out In Space. The series was about public spaces in Providence, Rhode Island. I tried to describe places through sound, and through what I hoped to be introspective interviews.
This was the first of the series. I recorded it in the fall of 2003. I went down to Riverside Drive, a strip of a park on the Seekonk River in Providence that is known as a place where men go to 'cruise.' It's also a very beautiful and peaceful and eerie place, with clear sunlight and a view down to the bay and old power plants across the river. I talked to a man who was sitting outside his truck on a Sunday morning, blaring a Radiohead album and drinking coffee.
The original version of this piece was a 1/2 hour and had about 10 minutes of just car noises and water noises (waves). You can listen to it and see the rest of the series here:
http://www.bsrlive.com/archives/show.php?s=69
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Piece Description
This is an excerpt of a half hour show, Riverside Drive, which is in turn part of a series I produced for Brown Student Radio called Out In Space. The series was about public spaces in Providence, Rhode Island. I tried to describe places through sound, and through what I hoped to be introspective interviews. This was the first of the series. I recorded it in the fall of 2003. I went down to Riverside Drive, a strip of a park on the Seekonk River in Providence that is known as a place where men go to 'cruise.' It's also a very beautiful and peaceful and eerie place, with clear sunlight and a view down to the bay and old power plants across the river. I talked to a man who was sitting outside his truck on a Sunday morning, blaring a Radiohead album and drinking coffee. The original version of this piece was a 1/2 hour and had about 10 minutes of just car noises and water noises (waves). You can listen to it and see the rest of the series here: http://www.bsrlive.com/archives/show.php?s=69
Broadcast History
Brown Student Radio 88.1fm Providence, March 2004 (longer form)
Free Matter for the Blind (audiozine), Providence, May 2004 http://www.fortthunder.org/fm4tb/
WFMU, 91.1 Jersey City, NJ, July 2004
Timing and Cues
0-:50: cars, water (waves)
:51: "I used to come here": man speaking
2:31: "I'ts pretty cool."
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Adam Allington
Posted on October 03, 2004 at 07:27 PM | Permalink
Review of Riverside Drive
When I lived in Brooklyn, one of my favorite places to walk was down by the old Brooklyn Navy Yard where overgrown parks and crumbling brick buildings and rusting iron gates just sit there waiting for life to come back to them.
This piece is interesting. It kind of remindes me of that sense of wandering around somewhere and stumbling upon a park or road that you didn't know existed.
On an artistic level this piece stands up great. As a feature....I wanted to hear more. I think it could have easily carried another minute. the bridge from the water sounds to the guy talking was somewhat confusing. Then, once he started I wanted him to talk more, his accent was wonderful.
This piece could serve as a short drop in for a show dealing with community development, local memory, urban soundscapes...etc.