OneTakeNewYork

One Take New York makes video documents of bands we love playing a song they love somewhere in New...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:38:00 -0400

One Take New York makes video documents of bands we love playing a song they love somewhere in New York City — in one take, of course. We are a three-person team tackling camera, sound and production. We don’t make music videos. …continued

check out www.takeawayshows.com from paris, where you can see all our videos and many, many more such creations.

propose your band’s onetake:
www.myspace.com/onetakenewyork

port o’brien shocks winnie’s karaoke bar with...

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:00 -0400

port o’brien shocks winnie’s karaoke bar with ‘i woke up today’

port o’brien’s ‘don’t take my...

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:01:00 -0400

port o’brien’s ‘don’t take my advice’ at good world bar, chinatown, nyc

adam arcuragi’s ‘bottom of the river’...

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0400

adam arcuragi’s ‘bottom of the river’ overturns buckets at the chelsea flea market

adam arcuragi’s ‘sin is just an old archery...

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:00:00 -0400

adam arcuragi’s ‘sin is just an old archery term’ in a van on the way to boston

arcuragi, snow, ‘the belgian’

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:00:00 -0400

arcuragi, snow, ‘the belgian’

hopewell’s jason russo had a vision, and he told us about...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:56:00 -0400

hopewell’s jason russo had a vision, and he told us about it. we decided to help him make his dreams come true.

hopewell plays ‘monolith’ on the rocks (of the east...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:53:00 -0400

hopewell plays ‘monolith’ on the rocks (of the east river)

this time in new york city’s first pay toilet (i swear,...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:52:00 -0400

this time in new york city’s first pay toilet (i swear, it’s true). we contributed these hopewell vids to the takeawayshows.com site, check them out there and so much more from us, from paris, and beyond…http://www.blogotheque.net/Hopewell

a power band, in a cabin with no power (see these big sleep...

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:19:00 -0500

a power band, in a cabin with no power

(see these big sleep videos and more on the takeawayshows site: http://www.blogotheque.net/article.php3?id_article=3849)

a rare acoustic moment with the big sleep

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:17:00 -0500

a rare acoustic moment with the big sleep

click here to see tom brosseau perform his latest single, 'committed to memory' in the saloon at the oyster bar

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:00 -0500

click here to see tom brosseau perform his latest single, 'committed to memory' in the saloon at the oyster bar

’submarine’ with the quavers on the gowanus canal

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:12:00 -0500

’submarine’ with the quavers on the gowanus canal

one of our favorites, ever (see these quavers videos and more...

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:12:00 -0500

one of our favorites, ever

(see these quavers videos and more on the takeawayshows site: http://www.blogotheque.net/article.php3?id_article=3615)

our first onetake, ever (see these tom brosseau videos and more...

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:11:00 -0500

our first onetake, ever

(see these tom brosseau videos and more on the takeawayshows site: http://www.blogotheque.net/article.php3?id_article=2995)

tom’s recent single, ‘committed to memory,’...

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:15:00 -0500

tom’s recent single, ‘committed to memory,’ in the back saloon of the oyster bar at grand central…classic.

a local favorite

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:25:00 -0500

a local favorite

our myspace page

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:32:00 -0500

our myspace page:

join us, propose your band’s onetakenewyork idea to us

who we are

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:28:00 -0500

One Take New York makes video documents of bands we love playing a song they love somewhere in New York City — in one take, of course. We don’t make music videos. No moody stares into the lens, no wind machines, and no lip-synching. We want to capture a happening, an unrepeatable moment, as if the band was performing not for an audience but for itself. We prefer spontaneity and serendipity and the happy accident. We want to capture a singular experience, a performance the band’s never given and will never do again. And we will capture that experience in a single take (unless we ask you to do it again). We encourage bands to choose the song it performs and the place they perform it. The song can be an original or a cover — it just has to be meaningful to the band, and when possible plays off the place the band chooses.

We encourage the musicians to play the song in a way they have never tried before (acoustic, a cappella, on spoons). We also encourage bands to choose a place they’ve never been but have always wanted to go in New York (outdoors or indoors). We want bands, even those who live here, to experience the city as a tourist, open to the unfamiliar and unexpected. When necessary, of course, we can offer suggestions for unlikely places to rock. Above all, we consider this an opportunity for whimsical, inspired collaboration, where the band does its thing the way it wishes and we simply happen to be there to record it. For examples, go to http://www.takeawayshows.com, the filmmaker Vincent Moon’s site and the original, Parisian incarnation of this idea. Our work has been appearing on this site since April 2007.

"The band does its thing the way it wishes and we simply happen to be there to record it"

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:03:00 -0500

“The band does its thing the way it wishes and we simply happen to be there to record it””