{"id":818,"date":"2009-11-04T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:28:54","slug":"subway-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/subway-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7439839&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7439839\">Subway Sax<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fredhatt\">Fred Hatt<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of my brother, Frank, and in celebration of his moving back to the Northeast after a sojourn in Oklahoma, I&#8217;m posting a video we made eighteen years ago.  This is Frank improvising on his alto saxophone in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Fourth_Street_%E2%80%93_Washington_Square_%28New_York_City_Subway%29\" target=\"_blank\">West 4th Street Subway Station<\/a> in Manhattan on a late evening in 1991, filmed with the new technology of the day, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8_mm_video_format\" target=\"_blank\">8mm video<\/a> camcorder.  I observed Frank as I would observe an unknown Subway musician, sometimes watching him, sometimes watching other things going on in the station as a dance to the saxophone&#8217;s wail.<\/p>\n<p>This became a piece about the rhythms of crowds and loneliness, trains and people coming in and going out like waves on the shore, an urban surf that goes on ceaselessly through all the stations of the Subway.<\/p>\n<p>I made new titles for it and changed it to monochrome as the original color wasn&#8217;t very pretty.\u00a0 Otherwise this is the same as the original edit I made in 1991, edited on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U-matic\" target=\"_blank\">U-matic<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namac.org\/node\/3694\" target=\"_blank\">Film\/Video Arts<\/a>, where I worked at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subway Sax from Fred Hatt on Vimeo. 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