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Sunday, Feb 15Rickshaw Stop + Popscene co-present
BLOOD CULTURES
support tba
7 pm doors
$20 adv / $25 doors
all ages
With their latest project, Skate Story, Vol.1, another conceptual album that doubles as the soundtrack to the highly anticipated indie video game Skate Story, Blood Cultures has introduced a hyper-interactive listening experience. The collaboration began when Sam Eng, the game’s developer, reached out as a fan in 2020 after skating through New York City and listening to Blood Cultures’ music, sparking a full-blown creative partnership. Set in a demon-populated, underworld version of NYC, the soundtrack sought to capture the city’s distinct environmental sound, leading to hundreds of field recordings taken from its streets, subway stations, and general ambiance — essentially sampling the city itself. The result emulates the experience of the motion and life of New York City, as filtered through lived memory. The sounds, while recorded directly in the city, have been chopped and pitched to a dreamlike quality, once again leaving room for personal interpretation of the project. Rather than scoring a finished narrative, Blood Cultures developed the soundtrack alongside the game, allowing music and design to shape each other in real time. The result is an album with its own arc and ambiguity, existing both within and beyond the world of the game: both standalone pieces of art, intersecting companion pieces to one another. https://www.blood-cultures.com/
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155 Fell St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94102
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