From microcassettes to the latest digital files, his personal soundtrack of New York City re-emerges: two decades of his life from his varied and eclectic audio archives, rediscovered in quarantine. enstereo has today’s AP Virus Diary.
A stack of cassettes, MiniDiscs and CDs representing some of AP journalist Jaime Holguin’s decades-rich audio archive sit on a table, Sunday, July 12, 2020, in New York.
When I moved here in autumn 1996, as I learned to engineer and produce music, I started recording everything from found sounds to late-night jam sessions to my own dabbling. And I’d saved everything. To a wide-eyed 23-year-old from Las Cruces, New Mexico, New York offered unexpected adventures and limitless possibilities. Inspiration was always around the corner.
I decided to keep my city alive by revisiting my relationship with it one audio file at a time. Each box I opened yielded a different medium, a different state of mind. As lockdown days dragged on, I dug deeper. Next up: nested folders inside my first laptop, the Apple Powerbook G3, the model used by Sarah Jessica Parker’ in “Sex and the City.” While Carrie Bradshaw was recording observations on romance, I was sampling, layering and manipulating New York’s sounds in ways unimaginable prior to 1998.
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