Archives for Breathworks (Ours)
Margaret Cavendish’s Vital Echoes
For my short presentation today, I want to add to our “Breathworks” a poem from Margaret Cavendish’s 1653 assemblage of Poems and Fancies, titled “Of Sound and Eccho” (1664...
“News Piece (ongoing),” Holly Pester
Holly Pester’s “News Piece (ongoing)” is a difficult poem to talk about, mostly because there is so little talking in it. Nevertheless, I also think that there is an...
Demetrio Stratos: Cantare la Voce / Singing the Voice
Demetrio Stratos_ Cantare la Voce _ Singing the Voice In this small presentation, I would like to focus on experimental music and phonetics, particularly on one artist who contributed...
Amplification in Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
I’m taking the opportunity of this short text to introduce a sculptural installation by Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore into the ongoing discourse of our class. Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to...
We are Sudamerican Rockers: Vocalizations in the Protest Song
You have just watched the first music video ever played by MTV en Español, aired in 1993. In my presentation, I will focus on the segment I shared from...
Destructuring/Restructuring: Tremoring Breath in Fitzmaurice Voicework
By: Michael Stablein, Jr. One of the leading teachers of the speaking voice, Catherine Fitzmaurice, is known best for her development of the Fitzmaurice Voicework: a vocal training discipline...
A True Voice in False Vocal Cords
This small presentation deals with extreme music and extreme singing, through the example of black metal: more precisely, of blackgaze(1), which is a softer version of it that focuses...
Over My Dead Body, Dave St. Pierre (2009)
*My gloss today could not be written without an article written on Dave St. Pierre by Alanna Thain and VK Preston. They provide the only scholarly appraisal of DSP’s...
Paul Scheerbart, Gallery of the Beyond
Gallery of the Beyond (1907) Written and Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart For my presentation, I would like to introduce the short text “Gallery of the Beyond” by the German...
Annie Sprinkle, Erotics of Air, and Ecosexuality
Short Presentation, Breathworks: Ours Annie Sprinkle, Erotics of Air, and Ecosexuality Cecily Chen My short presentation today focuses on performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle, whose work over...