{"id":14295,"date":"2016-02-24T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T13:27:16","slug":"sound-studio-in-the-shadow-of-the-boston-albany-worcester-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sound-studio-in-the-shadow-of-the-boston-albany-worcester-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Studio in the Shadow of the Boston & Albany: Worcester, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis LeBeau was giving me a tour of post-industrial Worcester.<\/p>\n

We called into \u2018The Space Studios\u2019 located in old brick factory buildings immediately north of CSX\u2019s former Boston & Albany mainline near Webster Street. The building complex once hosted an array of sidings, including a small coal trestle.<\/p>\n

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\"Once<\/a>
Once a factory; today artist and music studios.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Decades<\/a>
Decades ago this site was a hotbed of industrial activity. If you look carefully you can see the supports for an old coal trestle. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inside the studio Dennis\u2019s son Tommy LeBeau was recording The Green Sisters who were energetically performing traditional Bluegrass with a variety of stringed instruments.<\/p>\n

Using my Lumix LX-7 to its best advantage, I made a few evocative images of the session.<\/p>\n

\"Tommy<\/a>
Tommy LeBeau at The Space Studio in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blue<\/a>
Blue Grass live.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Green_Sisters_P1380106\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Green_Sisters_P1380111\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>
Big old fiddlehead. Old school craftsmanship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After<\/a>
After the take; Listening to the playback. A long long time ago I studied music and studio recording, but early on I changed course and photography adopted me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what\u2019s this have to do with railroads? Not much really, but its all related. Sometimes when you look for one thing, you find something else.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon Dennis and I reviewed a vintage collection of B&A photos depicting the Worcester area. In the last 115 years a great deal has changed.<\/p>\n

There was no Lumix LX7 in 1901.<\/p>\n

I wonder what Worcester will be like in 2131?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Finds New Angles Every Day!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Dennis LeBeau was giving me a tour of post-industrial Worcester. We called into \u2018The Space Studios\u2019 located in old brick factory buildings immediately north of CSX\u2019s former Boston & Albany mainline near Webster Street. The building complex once hosted an array of sidings, including a small coal trestle.   Inside the studio Dennis\u2019s son Tommy … Continue reading Sound Studio in the Shadow of the Boston & Albany: Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,4537,3370,7535,3369,1003],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Old_Factory_Webster_St_Worcester_P1380080.jpg?fit=2448%2C1634","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14310,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions\/14310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}