New Space: ROCK Show to Highlight Music's Behind-the-Scenes People
Gotta Groove Records, Cleveland's own vinyl pressing business makes records for bands and musicians from all over. Photo by Anastasia Pantsios.
A Sound Baseline: Making Music Work opens October 19
Music fans understandably focus their attention on the performers and the excitement on the stage. But it takes a village to get that show happening — a village of support businesses and personnel who provide what is needed to get the music to the fans.
Waterloo Road gallery Space: ROCK’s next show, A Sound Baseline: Making Music Work, focuses on these unsung heroes. It features the people and businesses in northeast Ohio who provide such support services — recording studios, equipment manufacturers, music stores, sound/production companies, mastering suites, duplication companies, and others.
The show opens Saturday October 19 with a reception from 6-10 pm. It will also be open from 6-10 pm Friday November 1 for Walk All Over Waterloo, as well as the gallery’s regular hours, 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday. It will run through the end of November.
Four area photographers — Joe Kleon, Anastasia Pantsios, Mara Robinson, and North Collinwood resident Michael Spear — have photographed nearly three dozen local businesses, which support the music scene, provide jobs for area residents, and bolster the local economy.
They include Gotta Groove Records, which started to press vinyl records near downtown Cleveland just as vinyl was becoming popular again and now makes records for bands and musicians from all over; Suma Recording in Painesville, which has recorded internationally celebrated luminaries like Pere Ubu, as well as many local artists; and Earthquaker Pedals, which started as one man’s hobby and now employs 18 people in Akron, making guitar sound-processing pedals now sold in more than 150 music stores around the world.
A Sound Baseline speaks directly to Space: ROCK’s mission — to expose people to all aspects of the area’s music scene through photography. Space: ROCK, located at 15721 Waterloo Road, is a project of the nonprofit Cleveland Rocks: Past, Present & Future, which was founded to preserve, educate about, and promote the area’s music history as well as its current music scene.
Look for Space: ROCK on Facebook for more information.
Anastasia Pantsios is a Cleveland writer and photographer with an emphasis on music and the arts. She is the director of the Space: ROCK Gallery on Waterloo.
anastasia pantsios
Anastasia Pantsios is a Cleveland writer and photographer with an emphasis on music and the arts. She is the director of the Space: ROCK Gallery on Waterloo.