Working Critique Proposal
Visual Guide to Metro
Performers
Sha Huang
Issues between subway
performers and passengers have occurred in many cities: public space has been
occupied, passengers have been disturbed, performers “force” passengers to
watch their performances. This project will be a video collection containing multiple
kinds of underground music performances. For people who live in cities that
recently built a subway or have no subways, New York underground music
performances could be a good way to show good relationship and balance between
performers and passengers. At the same time New York underground music
performance has already become a big part of this city and its city history.
Via this video, I hope to give them a visual tour to New York underground music
performance.
Not every city has
metro transportation and not every metro system has underground music
performance. A 5 minutes documentary based video will be my project, I will
record them as a bystander. As Music Underground New York already gave some
information about the heat station to see their performances, I will be able to
find them at certain time. The focus of my videos will be instrumental and
vocal performers. I will record and edit the video for this project.
To find out where the
performers are and when they will perform will be a big problem, so this is a
time consume work. With this project I hope to sharpen my skill at video
editing and see how far cellphone can video goes.
Since New York City is
home to all kinds of music, metro performance on the subway can be a symbol of
this city. To study more about metro performance is a good way understand the
harmony of this city too.
What I am doing is a
video collection of different performers. As a personal goal, I hope to push my
editing skill to the next level. In my final format, I will shoot as many kinds
of performers as I can, I cannot give a number because it is a time costuming
work to find and video the performers.
For this project, I
will use my cellphone to shoot and PC to produce. Recording with my cellphone
will give me the same video format to edit. This is a very popular way for
people to record nowadays, so I want to see how far I can go with its
capability.
New York has
influenced almost every modern music performer. “If one music style could
survive in New York, this music style could survive in the world.” I read this
quote from a documentary about Jonathan Lee, a Taiwan musician. Simply put, I
like to listen to all kinds of music, and once I moved to New York, I saw that
there are kinds of music performance I have never seen before.
Metro music performance has its history. Issues between performers,
passengers and station managers become news from time to time, especially
cities which have built metro systems more recently. Now and then, we see news
about performers who occupy public areas to perform and “force” passengers to
watch. Some people think it is an issue between performer and government,
others think it is problem between passengers and performers. Personally, I
think New York is a good example to show the good relationship between
passengers and performers: performers use a public area to play music and
passengers have fun with them. A lot of video that contains individual
performers on the subway have been shot by amateurs and uploaded to social
media, many academic essays have been published.
For residents in
cities that recently built a subway or have no subways, music performances in
the New York City underground could be a good example of the relationship and
balance between performer and passenger. Underground music performance in the
New York subway is a big part of this city and its city history. Through this
video collection, I hope to provide a visual tour of New York underground music
performance.
Reference
Underground harmonies: music and politics in
the subways of New York,
SJ Tanenbaum
A Guide for Street Performers http://citylore.org/urban-culture/resources/street-performers/
Subway dancer punches passenger for ignoring
his show, Jason Nuckolls,
Subway dancers are entertaining until a
passenger is injured, Pete
Donohue, http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/subway-dancers-fun-hurt-article-1.1822223
Musicians: Street performer crackdown could
mean competition for CTA space, Mary Wisniewski http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-subway-singers-getting-around-0206-20170205-column.html
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