Music Scenes in Porto Alegre: Cidade Baixa

MUSIC SCENES IN PORTO ALEGRE Cidade Baixa Felipe, Gabriela, Giovana e Jonas

STARTING POINT Considering someone’s who just arrived in Porto Alegre point of view of not knowing the city, but willing to go out at night, and asking advice for where to go to get musical entertainment.

Where can he or she have a good time?

STARTING POINT Considering someone’s who just arrived in Porto Alegre point of view of not knowing the city, but willing to go out at night, and asking advice for where to go to get music entertainment.

Where can he or she have a good time? Cidade Baixa would probably be the answer.

STARTING POINT Considering someone’s who just arrived in Porto Alegre point of view of not knowing the city, but willing to go out at night, and asking advice for where to go to get music entertainment.

Where can he or she have a good time? Cidade Baixa would probably be the answer. So our friend goes there and starts wandering in the streets trying to find places to have some fun.

VENUES The first part of the tour is Sobrado – Bolicho Cervejeiro, a bar where he can chat and have some beer and food. From there he goes searching for a place with music to “start the night”.

VENUES

PERSPECTIVE Our concern was about the circulation of music in a well known neighborhood for bars, concerts and related.

METHODOLOGY We started as what Charles Baudelaire call as “flâneur”:

METHODOLOGY We started as what Charles Baudelaire call as “flâneur”: Walking/strolling in the city, to experience it, looking at the window shops, just wandering with intelligence, without an accurate objective.

METHODOLOGY We started as what Charles Baudelaire call as “flâneur”: Walking/strolling in the city, to experience it, looking at the window shops, just wandering with intelligence, without an accurate objective. Paying attention to what pops out to the eyes.

METHODOLOGY We started as what Charles Baudelaire call as “flâneur”: Walking/strolling in the city, to experience it, looking at the window shops, just wandering with intelligence, without an accurate objective. Paying attention to what pops out to the eyes. Combined with an ethnographic bias: interviewing people, taking notes, recording videos and taking photos.

ANTICUARIO After Sobrado, he stops at Anticuario

ANTICUARIO After Sobrado, he stops at Anticuario This is uruguayan bar where you pay R$10,00 for the bands to play (if there is a band playing)

ANTICUARIO After Sobrado, he stops at Anticuario This is uruguayan bar where you pay R$10,00 for the bands to play (if there is a band playing) There are a lot of football itens, as well as frames related to music and “bar philosophy”

ANTICUARIO After Sobrado, he stops at Anticuario This is uruguayan bar where you pay R$10,00 for the bands to play (if there is a band playing) There are a lot of football itens, as well as frames related to music and “bar philosophy” The owners are real uruguyans

ANTICUARIO After Sobrado, he stops at Anticuario This is uruguayan bar where you pay R$10,00 for the bands to play (if there is a band playing) There are a lot of football itens, as well as frames related to music and “bar philosophy” The owners are real uruguyans The tables are actually sewing tables

ANTICUARIO

ANTICUARIO

ANTICUARIO

ROSSI The second stop is Rossi Bar

ROSSI The customers of the bar can listen to its loud music of few genres:

ROSSI The customers of the bar can listen to its loud music of few genres:

A lot of blues from the 50s, 60s e 70s

ROSSI The customers of the bar can listen to its loud music of few genres:

A lot of blues from the 50s, 60s e 70s

Some rock n’ roll bands from the 60s

ROSSI The customers of the bar can listen to its loud music of few genres:

A lot of blues from the 50s, 60s e 70s Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Watter, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Fred McDowell Some rock n’ roll bands from the 60s

ROSSI The customers of the bar can listen to its loud music of few genres:

A lot of blues from the 50s, 60s e 70s Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Watter, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Fred McDowell Some rock n’ roll bands from the 60s The Allman Brothers Band, Humble Pie, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grand Funk Railroad, The Band, The Marshall Tucker Band and The Yardbirds

ROSSI

ROSSI

PUTZGRILA

http://radioputzgrila.com.br/

The store: Budha Khe Rhi.

The bar

The radio

Putzgrila Radio adopts editorial principals of pluralism, nonpartisanship, independence and critic journalism. Each participant has the right of free speech and total responsibility about what is written and/or said.

The focus is rock music, and in it’s vairous subgenres.

Putzgrila Radio is a webradio born in 2007. We interviewed the radio djs Rachel Farias and Eric Alles. They said that the musicians and producers look for them a lot, and that they have on air interviews with new and famous artistis, they promote events/shows. It’s been for 4 months in Lima e Silva and the new space has brought the listeners closer (show video 1 and 2).

DIVINA COMÉDIA Divina Comédia or “The rockest bar in Porto Alegre” (This is what they want to be called). The bar opened its doors in january of 2010.

DIVINA COMÉDIA Divina Comédia or “The rockest bar in Porto Alegre” (This is what they want to be called). The bar opened its doors in january of 2010. Live music and mechanical sound

DIVINA COMÉDIA Divina Comédia or “The rockest bar in Porto Alegre” (This is what they want to be called). The bar opened its doors in january of 2010. Live music and mechanical sound Tribute band shows are charged R$ 18

DIVINA COMÉDIA Divina Comédia or “The rockest bar in Porto Alegre” (This is what they want to be called). The bar opened its doors in january of 2010. Live music and mechanical sound Tribute band shows are charged R$ 18 Non-cover bands/ independent bands are charged R$ 15

DIVINA COMÉDIA During our mapping, this was the band that was playing at Divina Comédia (for R$ 18)

DIVINA COMÉDIA => The view from the second floor.

DIVINA COMÉDIA

DIVINA COMÉDIA

DIVINA COMÉDIA

MONDO CANE

MONDO CANE Mondo Cane is a little bar in the João Freire Street

MONDO CANE Mondo Cane is a little bar in the João Freire Street It is a little bar full of posters of movies, mixed with nerd and music stuff

MONDO CANE Mondo Cane is a little bar in the João Freire Street It is a little bar full of posters of movies, mixed with nerd and music stuff Confortable atmosphere with mechanical sound

MONDO CANE Mondo Cane is a little bar in the João Freire Street It is a little bar full of posters of movies, mixed with nerd and music stuff Confortable atmosphere with mechanical sound A mix of craft beer (cerveja artesanal), trash movies and a geek world.

MONDO CANE Mondo Cane is a little bar in the João Freire Street It is a little bar full of posters of movies, mixed with nerd and music stuff Confortable atmosphere with mechanical sound A mix of craft beer (cerveja artesanal), trash movies and a geek world.

MONDO CANE The songs that you can listen to while having a beer there goes from punk rock, hardcore, heavy metal to classic rock and contemporaneous artists:

MONDO CANE The songs that you can listen to while having a beer there goes from punk rock, hardcore, heavy metal to classic rock and contemporaneous artists:

AC / DC, Attaque 77, Anthrax , Bad Religion , Ramones, Joy Ramone, Beach Boys , Black Label Society, Christopher Lee , Faith No More , Metallica, The Offspring , John Williams ( the theme of the bar 's films , so he has an idea to implement trails sound movies during the evenings) , Ennio Morricone (Tarantino’s soundtracks).

MONDO CANE

MONDO CANE

MONDO CANE

MONDO CANE They also use Instagram to interact with their customers

PARAPHERNÁLIA

PARAPHERNÁLIA On Friday the bar was hosting a 90s party

PARAPHERNÁLIA On Friday the bar was hosting a 90s party The bar is specialized in MPB and Samba

PARAPHERNÁLIA On Friday the bar was hosting a 90s party The bar is specialized in MPB and Samba Its regular audience is made by 80 and 100 people

PARAPHERNÁLIA On Friday the bar was hosting a 90s party The bar is specialized in MPB and Samba Its regular audience is made by 80 and 100 people Its record audience is 324 people

PARAPHERNÁLIA

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

MORE VENUES Frankenhaus Tattoo Parlour: A bar in the first floor and a tattoo studio in the second floor The bands play inside the bar, but most of the people stay outside in the sidewalk and Coronel Genuino St. The bar is located at Historical Center, but it is very close to Cidade Baixa The entrace is free and beer is not considered expensive The most common band genres there are rock, punk rock, irish punk and bluegrass

MORE VENUES Frankenhaus Tattoo Parlour:

MORE VENUES Frankenhaus Tattoo Parlour:

MORE VENUES Frankenhaus Tattoo Parlour:

MORE VENUES Frankenhaus Tattoo Parlour:

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul:

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul: A bar where you only pay when there is a band playing

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul: A bar where you only pay when there is a band playing Fridays: the house band plays blues cover songs

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul: A bar where you only pay when there is a band playing Fridays: the house band plays blues cover songs Saturdays: various styles

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul: A bar where you only pay when there is a band playing Fridays: the house band plays blues cover songs Saturdays: various styles The house is also known for its drinks

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul:

MORE VENUES Rock ‘N’ Soul:

AFTER ALL THIS

AFTER ALL THIS If our friend, from the beggining of this presensation, is tired, drunk or just don’ t want to leave Cidade Baixa:

AFTER ALL THIS

Perimetral Lanches

WHAT HAVE WE FOUND Cidade Baixa is an eclectic neighborhood: there is music for all kinds of taste. Once, as an interviewed said, MPB and samba predominated, but today it appears to share an equal place with rock (or even taking its place). Also, dance halls who used to be in other parts of the city had recently come to Cidade Baixa. We found places with both genres MPB and rock.

WHAT HAVE WE FOUND For musicians, it appeared that covers were most wanted. In Paraphernália, for example, the manager said they did have a day (on Tuesdays) for what is called “authorial” music (which means artist not famous or in the industry), but it doesn’t happen anymore. The radio is hidden from the squares (there is not even an outdoor or a board with its name on it). Something related to the places described by Sara Cohen in Liverpool. Cidade Baixa is not a safe place right now during the late night, according to a Marcio, that have been working since 14 years old at this kind of job.

WHAT HAVE WE FOUND Socio-economic aspects: It’s a neighborhood with various prices, but not the most expensives in the city. The places we went had no entrance tickets or tickets that didn’t reach R$20,00. Cidade Baixa is accessible by bus, bicycles and cars, and is near downtown.

thank you! :)