Description: by Andreas Bick
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This blog is dormant for already some time and functions as an archive of my field recording activities from 2007 until 2012. For inquiries or questions please refer to my homepage and contact me via the contact form.
Last summer, I visited San Francisco Bay Area to produce a radio feature plus web reportage for German broadcaster WDR. My question was: how does the Silicon Valley boom affect artists in the Bay Area? The question is not only about gentrification, Google Bus protests and soaring rent prices in San Francisco. The beatniks of the 50s and the counter-culture of the 60s played a crucial part in shaping San Francisco’s unique atmosphere of liberal openness, creativity and individualism. Many of the early hacker