Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, August 18: SOUND AND CHAOS: THE STORY OF BC STUDIO
Ryan Douglass and Sara Leavitt’s surprising history of a nondescript Brooklyn music studio debuted in the Netherlands last Summer. In addition to one-off engagements around Europe and the US, the doc has screened at Sound Unseen, Noise Pop, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Sound + Vision. It now comes to iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, VHX, and more via FilmBuff.
Revealing the underground music history of a singular place, Douglass and Leavitt explore Martin Bisi’s titular recording studio, which has been in operation since the 1970s and has hosted a diverse range of musicians, from Brian Eno and Debbie Harry to Sonic Youth and Africa Bambaataa. As much a look back at a changing New York City as it is about its vibrant music culture, this modest film’s interviewees paint a vivid picture of a pre-gentrified Brooklyn full of gangs and stray dogs, and the kind of ramshackle old industrial buildings that provided Bisi’s studio with its unique sound.
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