My podcast was titled “Interview with San Francisco Concert Goers”. In my interview I spoke with several people who attended a show with me in San Francisco. I asked them about how they came to be interested in that particular kind of music, and what they thought of the music industry as a whole. The responses I received were very different and very interesting. Thomas Harding was a man living in San Francisco who has become interested in underground music after he became tired of the commercialism that had become so important in todays big budget music. A quote that really stuck with me was, “[The Artists] just tend to stifle their creativity more than they normally would. These artists that become really popular have a tendency to stick with what made them famous. And in my opinion, music is an art form that should never cease to push the boundaries of what we as a society define as ‘music’, you know? It should be an ever-evolving organism that is constantly changing. Sometimes when an artist blows up they feel like they have a certain role that they feel like they need to continue to fulfill.”
It was strange confronting different people in that environment. Though a few of the people I spoke with were friends of mine, I spoke with several people whom i had never met before. They seemed very taken aback at first, but once I got them talking they seemed to want to continue to talk. The people at the concert i attended were all very friendly, and i kind of knew that coming in. The kind of people that follow the Dirty Bird label are all very relaxed and mellow, that’s why I wanted to profile that specific scene.
When it came time to edit there was a format I wanted to follow. I wanted to set up the scene in the beginning and set up who I was interviewing. After that I followed with the interviews of the people I spoke with, and edited the questions in a specific order as to tell a story. Then I added a musical interlude and began the part of the podcast where i profiled the electronic music scene as a whole. I spoke of the controversy revolving around what has become a very hot issue in music right now. I also quoted other interviews of important people in the music industry, and their opinions about the direction that everything was going. I finally tied everything together with an interview that Pasquale Rotella did for the Los Angeles Times where he essentially debunked all the negative attacks that had been brought upon him for creating the Electric Daisy Carnival event. I really did my best to have the podcast run full circle, and paint a full picture about what has been going on in this particular facet of the music industry.