The production includes interviews with renowned national musicians and will be available on YouTube from January 25th
On January 25, as part of the celebrations for the 471st anniversary of the city of São Paulo, the Secretariat of State for Culture, Economy and Creative Industry will launch the documentary series Rock algorithms.
Made possible through a partnership between social organizations Association of Friends of the Art of São Paulo (APAA) e Pinwheelresponsible for the Fábricas de Cultura program, the series presents a portrait of rock with a focus in São Paulo, starting from the 1950s.
Rock algorithms it will be available on the YouTube channels of the CultSP Play platform (@cultspplay) and Fábricas de Cultura (@tvfabricas).
With fortnightly episodes of around 30 minutes, the documentary tells the story of the musical genre based on testimonies from artists of great national expression.
In the first episode, the interviewee is Tony Campellowhich talks about his career, which began in the late 1950s. The musician also provides an overview of the music scene of the time, as well as indicating 10 Brazilian rock songs recorded in that decade.
The interviewees in the following episodes are also icons of Brazilian music: Lillian Knappby the duo Leno and Lilliantells the Young Guard and 60s rock.
One of the greatest Brazilian guitarists, recognized for his solo “Black sheep”from the band Tutti Frutti, Luiz Carlinigives his testimony on the 70s, marked by experimentalism.
Now the singer Clementsinger of the band Innocentreports, with great accuracy, an account of the punk movement, as it consolidated in Brazil in the 1980s.
As a central part of all episodes, justifying the purpose of the project, each of these artists brings a list of ten recommendations of essential Brazilian rock songs from each decade.
I am very proud to say that I was part of this wave of artists who contributed to ensuring that the so-called rock n’roll was accepted and cultivated in a way that later paid off, such as the youth guard, tropicália and other movements that came after the arrival of old rock,” he analyzes Tony Campello in his testimony.
“The cultural richness of São Paulo is also very well represented in rock, since the arrival of the musical genre in Brazil. Numerous highly appreciated names, in the most diverse styles of the genre, have emerged in the state, where rock remains very alive and vibrant. Not only the style, but also the artists behind it, deserve records like this, so that this story and this cultural manifestation can reach more people”, he declares. Glaucio Francageneral director of the Association of Friends of the Art of São Paulo.
Rock algorithms
If first the salesmen in the vinyl stores, the radio announcers and the VJs in the MTV were largely responsible for the curation and dissemination of rock culture, today this function is performed, to a large extent, by music streaming applications. It is their algorithms, without name or surname, that suggest songs to us, based on the words typed into search engines.
Our project comes to save this rock space, a little lost in time and memories, with good advice from personalities who have made the history of the segment”, observes Renato Barreirossuperintendent of the Promotion and Articulation of the Culture Factories managed by OS Catavento.
Music education and cultural preservation are about memories that are passed down from generation to generation. On this side, Rock algorithms uses influential personalities of Brazilian rock in each decade to talk about important movements born from the genre, starting from the 1950s, and recommends to young people a playlist that tells a little about the story of each song and each band.
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Source: Terra
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