It may be a bridge-or-tunnel away from the heart of most Downtown New York rock histories, but an abandoned Brooklyn industrial building proves important to that narrative in Ryan Douglass and Sara Leavitt's Sound and Chaos. From the dawn of hip-hop through No Wave and today's hipster scene, a dumpy studio run by recording engineer Martin Bisi has played host to a remarkably diverse crowd, many of whom swear by the place. Though light on the top-shelf interviewees that might have carried it beyond niche theatrical bookings, the doc offers a surprisingly strong sense of one of the city's most storied epochs and will please in-the-know viewers with a taste for behind-the-scenes arcana.
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