It's going to be a tongue-in-cheek, multi-faceted take on hip-hop culture & bridging the generation gap - with senior citizen breakdancing hoodie
gangs, fat beats & tasty visual cuts.
There will be several results - an avant-garde art film, a mockumentary on the youth-culture & hip hop scene, a music video for the forthcoming Automated Acoustics album, & some sonic-art audio pieces using some voice cuts recorded from the Senior Citizen breakdancers during the day.
The final projects will be funny, surreal, avant-garde, occasionally dark & most of all FUN!
Tom teaches breakdancing, at festival workshops, does structured group classes & private lessons around the UK, & has studied the art of body movement since he could stand up! He has been teaching this group of very keen senior citizens street dance as a project.
Automated Acoustics (Loz Gill) did some location sound recording of the Senior citizens talking, using vocal expressions & narrative stories that will be heard in the final edits & the overall sound design for the project. It will be in the top 5 most-mental sound engineering projects he's ever worked on ;)
It was an awesome, fun day, the group really got into it - & we totally terrorised the locals until they got up close ;)There will be some interesting results from the project for sure!! Massive thanks to all the breakers - legends! We will keep you posted.... stay tuned....
Both Tom & Russell can be contacted via Alternative Blueprint Records. www.alternativeblueprint.com
(& the video below was taken with my phone, not the nice camera Russell was using ;)
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