Featured articles about Suitcase Studios projects
Our deeply supportive business model has taken us around the globe. Folks who must be heard have received benefits from our services in a wide variety of situations. Explore these projects to get a sense of what we have done. We are in the industry of listening and understand that every effort requires an entirely new mindset. This constant practice of process reinvention and strategic application of resources will generate profound and unique value to your operation. In this way, we are more than consultants. We hope to produce a fresh concept in the guru–shishya tradition to carry a remarkable process of education into the future without destroying its past.
Elias B, Anthony S, and Ian BH on set in Pazhani, India
Arunagiri Perumale
Since 2013, Suitcase Studios has been deeply involved in the entire process of creating an international musical documentary exploring the life of a 15th Century South Indian Tamil poet named Arunagiri Perumale. Elias Bouquillon and Diane Cline Hastings collaborated with an extremely generous and talented group of musicians from the Greater Boston Area. Ian Battenfield Headley, Anthony Shrout, and Elias Bouquillon traveled over 1,200 miles throughout Tamil Nadu, India to capture scenes with Pradeep Kumar. This article entitled "Bridging Eras through Verse" from The Hindu, a nationwide publication in India, describes our journey through Tamil Nadu, India with our partners Poorvaa Productions.
Consolidated flyers from the 2010 shows
Wadzilla Mansion
From 2009 to 2012, the "core four" of Wadzilla Mansion formed at 12 Wadsworth St in Allston, MA. Karen Reddy, Socrates Cruz, Justin Marchetti, and Elias Bouquillon nurtured a powerful creative community in the heart of Allston Rock City. We supported the efforts of artists around the globe by producing events from our home base to Austin, TX. The operation shut down in February 2012 due to permitting issues. An effort to create a balance produced WadzTV, a series of live videos which featured our favorite Boston bands. This feature from the Boston Globe describes the afterglow of the scene.
Elias B and Brian D producing a concert underground
The Symphony Underground
From 2004 to 2006, Brian Dixon and Elias Bouquillon were prototyping the first versions of our suitcase studios. The concept required vigorous on-site testing of multi-track audio recording. One result was a series of free concerts performed in the Symphony Hall T-Station in downtown Boston, MA. The Symphony Underground was affectionately known as SUGr. Archives of many of these shows still exists, yet require post-processing or file recovery. Stay tuned to our soundclound page for these recordings as they are released.