NEW SOUNDS: #4376, Music About Homelessness and Gentrification
NEW SOUNDS: #4376, Music About Homelessness and Gentrification
BY JOHN SCHAEFER
“Listen to music that deals with gentrification and homelessness by Brooklyn-based iT Boy, Michael Gordon and The Crossing, Gabriel Kahane, and Ted Hearne with poet Saul Williams.
Hear new music from Brooklyn-based composer and instrumentalist iT Boy (aka Theo Baer) whose solo electronic project is built around cassette loops. It’s from his EP, Nail House, a Chinese term for a real estate holdout amidst the pressures of gentrification. In fact, during his recording of the EP, his home and work studio became a ‘Nail House’ and he was evicted shortly after finishing these works.
Also, listen to an excerpt from Place, a multimedia work by Ted Hearne in collaboration with the poet Saul Williams. Place is a ‘multifarious meditation on white supremacy, fatherhood, displacement and loss, at once intimate and monumental’ (Bandcamp.)”