Stretch Damianio (left) and Hot Spitta (right) take turns on the mic at the corner of Cold Spring and Park Heights at a Yo Trakz! Mobile Recording Session

Behold the mobile studio! Yo Trakz! founder LJ Gray prepares the gear while his partner Hot Spitta surveys the scene…

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• Filmmaker Chris LaMartina stops by to preview his latest horror movie, President’s Day. The film features a blood-thirsty, inventive killer who bears a striking resemblance to Abe Lincoln.
• We delve into the collective unconscious when we listen to an experimental ‘nightmare scenario’ – dozens of nightmares have been recorded, sliced, diced, and sewn together, Frankenstein-style, into one homunculus of a bad dream.
• Fiction writer Eric D Goodman shares from his novel-in-stories, Tracks, a book that explores the private minds of strangers traveling together on a train.
• And we hit a street-corner freestyle session with Yo Trakz Mobile Recording Studio, an enterprise that takes the microphone outside the booth and into the world where music is made.

HELPFUL LINKS:

Here’s a link to more info about Chris LaMartina’s “President’s Day”

Here’s a link to more info about The Megapolis Audio Festival, where the audio experiment ‘Nightmare Scenario’ was created.

Here’s a link to Eric D Goodman’s literary blog, Writeful. And here’s a link to info about his new children’s book Flightless Goose.