Do It Together: Steve Albini on the future

Do It Together is an independent project about DIY music based in Amsterdam, The Netherlads.

Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago.

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This Interview was filmed for the DIT documentary, initially the concept was to create a compilation of interviews about DIY music around the world to explain how DIY works nowadays and to give an insight for younger musicians that could perhaps help them to choose their own road, this movie played in almost every possible venue that would be interested in having it and took many forms, depending on the requirements of the event or venue.

but the idea was to also upload all of the interviews in full, thereby giving the option for everyone to see all of the great ideas and stories. Finally after many years we can put some time into re-editing all of the interviews to upload them separately, I hope you like it.

Currently we're filming livestreaming concerts at the independent venue called OCCII in Amsterdam, and other music videos & political interviews with a new project called Bad Vibes.

Alek Riquelme / Interview, Directing & Editing
Shawnecee Schneider / Camera
Steve Albini / Audio Recording
Daan Duurland / Audio Restoration

[slintrodan]

"Every band is it's own universe."

[shentov]

go home, cameraman, you're drunk.

[paranoidjones]

clearly a pre-spotified world interview. new boss=worse than the old boss

[alphanumeric]

Lol, Albini thought bands would be able to play live in the future. If you're scrying the future, at base, always assume there will be less freedom than you currently enjoy. The only real question then, is how much freedom will remain?

Will you be able to work?

Able to leave the house?

Able to control your own body?

Able to be alive?

All of these cannot be taken for granted, and should be considered by all planners of the future. As of this writing, half of all the businesses in the US have been dissolved and will not be coming back. We're going into the third school year where the entire nation's school kids have had their education either cancelled or profoundly diminished to the point of negligibility.

What type of future is being created for the people of the US?