Portrait #3: House of Sound
Vanessa Renwick, 2009, US, video, 11'
The object of attention is a dearly departed building on a corner that once housed the 'House of Sound', a record store, a community anchor, and a landmark for passersby. Founded in 1964, the store itself was the remnant of an almost mythical neighbourhood in the city’s history, a strip of black jazz clubs which disappeared after the construction of a memorial and a hospital in the area. A beacon of livelier, more colourful times in a part of town only recently rediscovered by developers.



