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song to destroy myself / song to destroy the world (unspecified voice with percussion)
by Sage Jane Harlow (2017)
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Work Overview
A response to the Trans Pathways (Strauss et al., 2017) study. Also, a response to my own gender dysphoria and mental health issues. An attempt to integrate intellectual, word-using self with my improvisation practice. My improvising had focused on 'letting go' of intent and exploring flow states. This piece functions like a ritual work. It has an invocation and then a 'free' section allowing the effects to manifest.
In this piece, the invocation is a set of quotes. These function to generate a response in the trans, femme performer. The first is about destruction from Kathy Acker - a writer who used the cut up technique a lot. Acker's work is very important to me. The second is from the first large study of trans experiences in Australia. The mental health statistics are pretty harrowing. The third is from Jack Halberstam's 'The Queer Art of Failure'. It is about cutting as a feminist technique denying agency.
The performer reads these quotes and then responds.
Work Details
Year: 2017
Instrumentation: Voice, drum and rattle.
Difficulty: Text score.
First performance: by Sage Pbbbt — 10 May 17.
Contribute submitted styles, genres, influences, etc:
Ritual music, shamanic music, improvisation, free improvisation, exploratory music, experimental music, trans, transgender, queer, feminist, mental health,
Performances of this work
10 May 17: featuring Sage Pbbbt.
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