House listening Gender Studies # 17: music and sexual identities (Serie Para / / ELE)
almost winter stopover for listening rooms. The location of this new ruling is known: Congress, the station or how to transform a cultural non-place into a cultural center.
You answered the call and for that we thank you. Reservations were more timid but, ultimately, a good twenty people made the trip.
Tonight we will hear a series of pieces that tackle (or more roundabout way) the question of gender identities. This topic was planned for a long time but only now emerging, with the support of Sabine and Francis (and thanks to the hosting of Congress).
The music is a privileged choice to affirm or to engage in combat. We tried to track down the genuine (not to succumb to marketers who sometimes likes to play on the thread of ambiguity for commercial reasons).
Homosexuality, transsexuality, definition of roles and attributes, stereotypes and heterocentrism: these are some topics that have crossed our path.
We met several times and we decided to mix our songs (as before).
Gender Studies: Music and gender identities / Tracklist
Ultra-red "Public address (excerpt)" (Mille Plateaux)
This piece is excerpted from Second Nature / electroacoustic pastoral year. I own this CD a long time and I always appreciated for reasons that escape me.
The members of the collective Ultra-red define themselves as activists sound. They are left on issues of sexual minorities or, more recently, on issues related to intellectual property rights.
Second Nature is a time of struggle that lasted three years. Griffith Park in Los Angeles is a place to park where "sexual relations between persons of the same sex." It is the largest municipal park in the world. The disc of Ultra-red is a wider reflection on gender and space and the criminalization of sex in connection with space. Vast panorama of sound that combines speech, soundscapes and manipulations of the studio, this CD is a tribute to the park as a second nature in the city. The park does not, on behalf of this second kind, crush the differences of its users.
DJ Sprinkles' Midtown 120 Intro "(Mule Musiq)
Thaemlitz Earth This disc is an ode to odd house music in its most pure: a voice against a musical background really tells the adventures of a musical genre. For the veteran of electronic music, house music was born in the mid 80's in New York, in clubs drag queen. A few years later, Madonna is going to kill the movement leaving Vogue, where she a single monkey queer culture.
Thaemlitz arrives in New York in 1986. He landed his Missouri home where he suffered daily verbal attacks (and others): they considered him a queer-fag-pussy-AIDS-bait (if you have not mastered the language of Oscar Wilde, ask your neighbor to translate this poetic expression). Earth is fast enough clubs where people gather like him, creating what he calls an "isolated community". It is at these clubs, these people and the music he wants to honor.
Rhythm King and Her Friends "Queer Diskotek"
"I'm going to the disco is a place dominated by women.
Here I meet my girlfriends. I familiar with the DJ. "
Rhythm King and Her Friends is a female trio that combines electronic music and feminist commitment. Claiming the female post-punk 80s (Au Pairs, Bush Tetras, The Slits ...) and movement "Riot Grrrls, the group has the distinction of singing in three languages, English, French and Bulgarian ... . Rhythm King "emphasizes the importance of queer identity of the group:" Because we make music that is close to our lives. And because such a group did not exist before, it was missing in the celebrations and gatherings. " Music involved? Undoubtedly. But When asked if Pauline Rhythm King claims the label queer feminist group, the answer is mixed. One type is the satisfaction of being recognized as such, as a step forward. Yet on the other, remains the clear awareness that any categorization is a limit. "This is a part of us. But our music is not confined to that. " "
(Rhythm King and Her Friends, a portrait of Aline Guillermet / The Courier).
Chumbawamba 'Homophobia' (One Little Indian)
This piece is the work of a true collective of supporters of leftist agitprop, before being recovered by marketing and football (cf. instructions Chumbawamba listening room before). Here they pay tribute to a young gay man who became "smashed his skull on the gutter" by a band of thugs at large. It starts slowly but the a cappella funeral march quickly overtaking the procession and choir. This piece is the starting point of the listening room.
Baby Dee "The Only Bones That Show" (Drag City)
For Baby Dee, the gender issue should be raised. It bores him. She prefers that we talk about his music. Hermaphrodite Circus organist at the Catholic church, street musician (a harp on a tricycle), Baby Dee's career has gone through ups and downs but in 2000 he was invited to play the harp on the first album of Anthony & the Johnsons. There followed two albums where the piano and the harp gave his voice an elegiac mood. For this third album (the first for the label Drag City), bass and guitar were added to the palette. Dee's voice is that of a true performer. The inn is not far. Baby Dee Why this name? "This name was given to me by another transsexual in the Pyramid Bar of NY where I was dancing on the bar. " (Info found in the magazine The Wire)
Coco Rosie & Antony Hegarty "Beautiful Boyz"
"All Those beautiful boys Pimps and queens
and criminal queers All Those Beautiful Boys
Tattoos of ships and tattoos of tears"
" In recent years a new generation of artists emerging on the subversive art and music scene. Artists like [...] [...] Antony Hegarty and Bianca Casady (half of the duo Coco Rosie) - open, free and ambiguous - upset our ideas about male and female categories, bringing a new understanding of identity and beauty to be sincere. Antony Hegarty is known for its "Antony and the Johnsons, with whom he won the prestigious Mercury Prize (the" Goncourt "British music) in 2005. "Her extraordinary voice [...] is completely asexual and could equally well belong to a white man as a black woman. Antony himself defies categorization is not a secret. Asked about his body transgendered Antony replied: "You would think that God played a trick, or you might think it's culture and society that you have played a trick, considering that n 'There is no place for you. Well Well, there yen. (Viktoria Shovels, "The Gender Performance", September 2009, http://www.electronicbeats.net). The duo Coco Rosie also embodies this approach transgender, particularly on the part of Bianca Cassidy, who wears mostly a mustache. The piece presented is a collaboration between Antony and Coco Rosie, where paradoxically the deep voice is played by Bianca while the refrain is taken up by the heavenly voice of Antony.
Matmos "Public Sex For Boyd McDonald (Matador Records)
Do we still have the duo Matmos (most of their third appearance in the listening room)? Out of respect for new come, yes! It is a couple of men who practice with a certain genius (yes) the meeting between electronic music and field recordings (field recordings). This excerpt is from their album The Rose has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast, which pays tribute album, so true iconoclast, their literary heroes.
It is too late to googling the name that we do not know but the public sex in question is not about rhetoric: they are taken directly from real sex in a park (like an echo in the quest Ultra-red).
Peaches "I Feel cream" (XL Recordings) Merrill Beth Nisker
is a Canadian artist who mixes electronic music with simple lyrics overtly sexual. So far, nothing special. The melody is catchy but it is in concert Peaches catches acclaim. She plays with all the cliches and all of our fantasies. It multiplies by crossing genres and constantly referring back to back our performances.
We remember a concert at Botany: Merril, sexy without being an obvious beauty, makes a striptease. A man near us with a kind of small camcorder becomes just crazy. When she is in her underwear, she took her panties, the place (because it a body) and gets dressed. The man fell into the trap. This story pretty much sums up the character. Playing the stripper, the artist refers to men and women a distorted view of sexuality. I feel cream is the story of a night of love between a man and a woman. Who plays whom? Who is really going to let itself be? Miss Kittin
"3rd Gender"
DJ and musician (alone or in duet with The Hacker) in a field - electro - where women are hardly represented, Miss Kittin takes over in atmospheric version, the title "3rd sex "created in Indochina in 1983, iconic song that evokes bisexuality, transgendered and the androgyny.
Benjamin Britten's "Diversions for piano (left hand) & orchestra (EMI) vs. Ultra-red "Curbed Behaviors (No Park Queen remixed by Terre Thaemlitz)
The gayest of contemporary composers. He composed all his life for his lover Peter Pears. I also moved because he wrote Billy Bud, an opera composed entirely of men and adapted Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's novel beautifully ambiguous.
Listen to a sample of these short pieces for piano (left hand) and orchestra. I am not a musicologist but I see in this formula a person (Hand, left as well) against society (the orchestra): dialogue, confrontation
... In the end, the comeback of Ultra-red. Because nothing is ever simple ...
Burka Band "Burka Blue (Barbara Morgenstern Mix) (Monika Enterprises Records)
Founded by Gudrun Gut, emblematic of the punk scene and Electro Berlin since the late 70's, Monika Enterprise label intends to promote female artists in the field of electronic music, which is not much less sexist than was the rock of the 60s and 70s. The label has already released three compilations " 4 Women No Cry "inviting them to discover four musicians and includes in its catalog Cobra Killer, Barbara Morgenstern (already heard here), Gudrun herself or the Burka Band. This group is the product of a musical project launched by German musicians in Afghanistan and is composed of three women (?) Afghan anonymous, covered with a burka. You see them on video (type "Burka Band" on YouTube), all dressed in a burka, fussing around a bass, drums and a microphone, an underground cellar in Kabul. The Burka Band is "officially" presented as the first female pop group Afghanistan, but it is unclear whether all this is happening the situationist (the German media have picked up the story without checking) or authentic experience. Anyway, the ironic and absurd lyrics of the song "Burka Blue", released in 2005 on the eponymous EP and remixed by Barbara Morgenstern, so refer back to back very pleasing fundamentalist Taliban and Western do-gooders.
"My mother wears a burka, I must wear a burka too. We all wear a burka, WE do not know who is who. Blueee, burka blue.
The sky is over Kabul est aussi very blue, the blue from The Burke IS. burka burka blue. My grandma
wears a burka, mygrandpa does it too, I will wear this burka but only just for you.
We all now wear a burka, you don't know who is who, if you want to meet your sister, it can be your uncle too.
You give me all your love, you give me all your kisses, and then you touch my Burka and do not know who is it.
My mother wears blue jeans now, and I am so surprised, the things are changing more faster, I don’t know if it’s right… »
Tracy + The Plastics « Oh birds » (Too Pure)
Derrière ce nom bizarre, il y a Wynne Greenwood. Une jeune personne qui doute tellement de son identité qu’elle s’invente un groupe où elle occupe tous les postes. Cela ressemble à une vaste egocentric hoax but it's just a bad / well-being creative. The CD is double sided. On the back, a DVD Wynne welcomes attempts to deceive us about the exact number of participant (s) in this adventure.
Wynne plays three roles, as heteronymous created the great poet Fernando Pessoa: Nikki on keyboards, Cola on drums and vocals Tracy. Live, she plays with images of her playing the other instruments ... (sic)! She even talks to his group (the images) between songs. You follow me? No? So listen!
Nina Simone "Four Women" (EMI)
In Four Women, "Nina explores the feelings of four black women. Their colors range from light to dark, "which deeply affects their concept of beauty and value." Nina portrays cleaner submission of the African-American woman, a slave to her beauty or her birth to survive. Nina seems to say that as black women will not accept their Negroid beauty instead of the one dictated by white, they can break their bondage. Feminist song if any, is Four Women by Nina exploration of all these masks, all these faces. Because it was in turn the four women "(David Brun-Lambert, Nina Simone, Flammarion, 2005, p. 168). The last verse refers to Peaches, a black woman angry, ready to kill. It is by reference to that character that the Canadian artist Peaches chose his stage name ...
"My skin is noireMes arms longsMes crépusMon hair back is hard to bear fortAssez douleurInfligées again and again How
call me they? My name is Aunt SarahMa skin is café au laitMes hair longsMa place is between two mondesMon father was rich and blancIl forced my mother calling me a soirComment they? My name is Saffronia
My skin is tannéeMes hair beauxMes hips you invitentMes lips are like the wine of which I am the little girl? "From anyone who has money to call me m'acheterComment they?
My name is "Sweet Thing My skin is my manners are bruneEt rudesJe am ready to kill the first asshole I see] Because my life has been dureJe'm terribly bitter these days ciParce that my parents were calling me esclavesComment- they? My name is Peaches'
As extensions
Ok, I had difficulty meeting my commitments with regard to extensions but this is due to an agenda that runs lean (you know all that teachers do nothing). I refuse to give up. If we do not go together, let's go in secret. Here is a small selection.
1 / Last Friday, there were Bozar a preview of a film that is sure to interest us, "Male Domination" by John Patrick. Here is the short text that was found at:
"I want the audience to compete out of the room," said Patric's what John turning "male domination." Can we believe that at twenty-first century, men require a return to traditional values of patriarchy: women cook and men in power? Can you imagine that young educated women seeking "a dominant partner? What about men who undergo penis enlargement operation, "like buying a big car?" If these trends may seem small at first glance, the film shows us that our attitudes rarely stick to our words. The illusion of equality conceals an abyss of daily injustices that we do not want to see. And where everyone plays a rôle.A through sequences funny, bewildering and sometimes tragic, the film forces us to position ourselves in a field where everyone thinks hold a truth. "Male Domination" throws the disorder through a feminist man who was questioned. A provocation that will cringe ... "
http://ladominationmasculine.net/
The preview is over but watching for programs for the theatrical release.
2 / Expo "Me, without a doubt" at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg until March 28, 2010. Boltanski Beat Streuli, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, contemporary art questions the identity of self and others.
House listens to come
# 10 DJ Culture: 5X10 (five DJs ten songs they prefer to dance). Delayed but still it happens ... (Special issue)
# 18 Noise Vs Silence: a double bed and listening (with the draw as to whether we start with the noise or silence) (Versus Series) # 19 H2O
sound qualities of blue gold (the 4 series elements). With a mineral water bar as in Japan. # 20
20X10en2010 the tenth meeting room listening to the twentieth.
New Weird America # 21 (Series Imaginary Territories). The U.S., a territory that is to dream again?
# 22 To continue in French, type 1. The phone and its diversion into music (Series Items)
fingering # 23 From: the harp and accordion format pop (Series Instruments)
# 24 The figures of the absence (homage to Rachel Whiteread) (Arts & Plastics series) # 25
Red Green Blue (Homage to Ellsworth Kelly) (Arts & Plastics series) # 26 The
structure of musical revolutions (music Sciences Research) (series para / / ELE) # 27 House
close / music and sex (serial para / / ELE) # 28
Mass for the present time / religion vs.. electronic music (versus series) # 29
Expéri-Métal/deux worlds are total opposites? (With the assistance of Fabrice Altes
# 30 Masters and Disciples / school of music (series para / / ELE)
Ethics and statistics
Reminder: The rooms are done listening 100% free illegal downloads. The majority of music this evening are bought or rented at the library. Listening rooms do not generate any profit and are very time consuming for the organizers. The TECC (the fee for group listening and contextual) is used to fund various small expenses.
In 2008, I carefully recorded all my purchases and rentals of CD in a small Moleskine: I have spent 661.09 euros in music (not including CDs offered a way manipulate the statistics). Per month, this gives 55.09 euros. Per day, 1.81 euros.
My commitment for 2009 is to reduce these costs 1 euro per day while maintaining the "quality" listening rooms. Curb consumption and revisit her nightclub ... Happy New Year.
NB: the Moleskine is available ...
June 2009: I'm on the right track towards decreasing. I do not buy many records. I will count at the end of the year.
December 2009: I have not fulfilled my commitments: I spent one 38 per day. It's hard to resist sirens of consumption.
My commitment for 2010: honoring my commitment to 2009.
Talk about listening rooms around you and please come if you want ... participation
Thank you thank you Axel, Sabine and Francis
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