Portland’s ‘Purposeful Amateurism’
Dave Longstreth on Calvin Johnson, founder of K Records: ” I found his idea of the beauty of purposeful amateurism to be pretty powerful. And I think that that ethos is really like…like, Portland is just steeped in that value, as was Seattle in the 90s. I mean Portland still kinda has it to some extent—if too many people from Brooklyn don’t move there—of just like ‘anyone can make music’ and ‘sometimes the wrong note is actually right’ […] it meant a lot to me to discover that in the early 2000s.” Video interview From The Walker (Art Center) Channel (via useful chamber)
