GLEN DICROCCO

  • INTRO
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  • THEMES I
    • While Tensions Flared
    • Tripping The Bay (I)
    • Tripping The Bay (II)
    • New York Groove
    • Terminal Circuit {a}
    • Terminal Circuit {b}
    • Into White
    • Into The Wild
    • Victory Tour (I)
    • Victory Tour (II)
    • Gotham Noir
  • THEMES II
    • In and Around The Lake
    • Instant Triplets
    • Let It Roll
    • We Are Merely Players
    • Indiscipline
    • NoMad Men
    • Chilean In New York
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Like A Hurricane
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Tripping The Bay (I)

Soon-after the turn of the century much would change for the Staten Island Ferry, the one hundred year-old staple of municipal transportation. The lax atmosphere and cast of both official and unauthorized boat regulars were held to greater scrutiny after 9/11 and the crash of the Andrew Barberi Ferry in October 2003. The vendors and musicians largely disappeared; the shoe-shine guys finally packed it in. The preachers? Maybe they just gave up.


Each trip allows a venture into varying terrains during a 5.2 mile cruise across New York Harbor. The natural mix of sounds—conversations, vocal characteristics, boat movements—all punctuate a visual canvas which guides me into the mix of commuters, tourists, deckhands, and textural palettes. In one space, contrasting multi-cultural itineraries emerge aboard a vessel at sea which hosts nearly 65,000 guests each day. It is this complexity and oddity I attempt to dissect and preserve.