Before (1983)
New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places
September 2001

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Notes from Jay Allison
We all first met though the New School where I was teaching at the time. We started gathering once a week to listen to each others’ work and critique. And we decided to make a piece together.

We went out to record life all over the city at different times of day, not all on one day, but whenever we had a chance and could get away from our other jobs, which most of us had.

We pooled the tape and shaped a chronicle. It was simply to be an homage to the city, where many of this group still live now, 18 years later.

At the time, I had a four-track Teac and an eight-channel mixer in an old barn in Ulster County where several of us gathered one weekend to mix. I don’t remember what the weather was like, but it seems like it must have been lovely.

Recordists: Janice Ball, Portia Franklin, Alan Gingold, Katie Davis, Jay Allison, Karen Pearlman, Lou Giansante, Marjorie Van Halteren, Karen Frillman, Joanne Cooper, Charlie Gilbert

Associate Producers: Janice Ball, Katie Davis, Charlie Gilbert, Karen Pearlman

Narrator: Lou Giansante

Executive Producer and Engineer: Jay Allison