I wanted to focus on different forms of the music industry in the city. As a city where many come to “make it,” there are so many events, players and processes that could be reported on.
One idea would be to do a report on a studio that cater to artists at different level of the industry and their career. I would love to chronicle a couple of days at the studio, interviewing the engineers and vast types of artists that come through. I would want to find a studio with some history or has some type of interesting story behind it as so I’m not just randomly interviewing people.
Another idea that I had was to do a story on street musicians. I would be really interested in doing a piece on either the many that performers that are in and around Union Square or focusing on one of those artists and doing a sort of “day in the life”. In both instances I would focus on how these artists financially survive, and how music effects other aspects of their lives. I feel like there MUST be a lot of stories between the negative and positive aspects of being a street performer.
On the flip side of interviewing artists struggling to be recognized for their music, I would also be interested in doing a piece on artists who have made it. Since it would be particularly hard to garner the attention of major artists, I would want to focus on the people who cater to these artists. I think it would be interesting to do a story on people who cater to artists through various forms such as night life, fashion, make up, public relations etc. These people are much more accessible and will have as much, if not more information than the artists will about the details of their day.
