Well about being here, it's interesting to have packed only the clothes i will wear, the computer and gadgets i will use and things i have to work with. Also remembering the fact the first week I came my computer collapsed with the heat after being on for 3 days. Now new computer, new hard drive, new routine is doing good.
PLANO B (Plan B)
I guess most of my stay in Rio has to do with this place. It's at first look, a record store like the ones we see in indie movies. Experimental music vynil records, from swedish industrial bands to Brazilians deepest weird country secrets, from fleetwood mac to african djembe drums. Well, thats just the way it looks during the day, during the afternoons and weekends, they re-arrange the records and tables and have workshops and courses that go from circuit bending and arduino to PD, the one I am taking now. Also, at night, when the traditional neighbourhood of Lapa becomes alive of samba, there in a little alley, all kinds of music and noise sessions are jammed and presented.
The PD course at Plano B, with the cat that lives in the store also receiving messages!
From south african dj-vj scracth sets, to australian field recording artists (like Lawrence English), from brazilian experimental musicians and installation artists like Chelpa Ferro, to improvisation and free jazz with local and russian musicians, all kinds of sessions take place at Plano B, for the last, say 8 years at least? And still, after all this time (now remember the record store from the movies?), it's a cozy, community, autonomous, free-event place. You don't pay to get in, you get a cheap beer from the small bar (which is also the mixing-recording control station!), talk with the father, mother, daughter and cat that own the place that are always around, sit on the floor and enjoy the presentations, or stand up outside on the streets where there are so many people just chilling and talking. People of all ages enjoying the sound and the hang out, whering flip flops and high heels and listening to music which is not loud like a club but loud like a nice house party. That's one thing about Rio I find interesting, someplaces just feel so honest and relaxed. It's just so hot here that nothing can be cool. Except the air conditioning super-places, well, those conditioning places and clubs, I just don't feel like being there now...
Check out the humming bird that flew through the door durgin Chelpa Ferro's presentation last week! The little bird kept flying around the ceiling. Was it desoriented by the music or happy to find some extreme frequencies?
