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Butch Morrise collaborating with Senga Nengudi

#art #butch morris #black art #black music #experimental performance #experimental music #artist

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Excerpt from In the night by Jamaica Kincaid:

There is the sound of a cricket, there is the sound of a church bell, there is the sound of this house creaking, that house creaking, and the other house creaking as they settle into the ground. There is the sound of a radio in the distance—a fisherman listening to merengue music. There is the sound of a man groaning in his sleep; there is the sound of a woman disgusted at the man groaning.

the sound of Mr. Straffee, the undertaker, taking her body away. There is the sound of her spirit back from the dead, looking at the man who used to groan; he is running a fever forever. There is the sound of a woman writing a letter; there is the sound of her pen nib on the white writing paper; there is the sound of the kerosene lamp dimming; there is the sound of her head aching.

#Sound #writing #sonic text #Black writer #jamaica kincaid #reading

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Milford Graves at Queens museum

"I've been thinking about sculpture as a teaching tool. There's a saying I used to always hear: "sculpture is frozen music." I want something with some kind of movement to it. I'm adding elements that are not static, like transducers. I also use my years and years of experience in music and my training in martial arts to understand sculpture. There were movements I used to do that would be very quiet, maybe something from aikido or tai chi. Very slow, very slow... then all of a sudden you would burst out with this explosive, passive-aggressive energy. I wondered how I would put that into a piece of sculpture. I thought the explosion would be to put together some unorthodox elements and have contradictions set in. If a person were to look at it, it would provoke a kind of psychological motion inside of them."

#milford graves #art #sculpture

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waking dreams 

#notes #writing #ancestors

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from Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter 1997) IN HISTORY by Jamaica Kincaid

Returning to a text I read in school to remind myself of something

#jamaica kincaid #in history #writing #reading #history #callaloo #black history #black present

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From Flipping physics

Study of resonance

#resonance #bubbles #science #physics #sound #instruments

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Odetta, Photo by Herb Snitzer, 1990

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Black Comedy 2 1997

Donald Rodney

#painting #artist #black art #donald rodney #art

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Babi, 1977, Milford Graves

#vocalisation #milford graves #music #drum #instrument #sound #free

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Studio Venezia, Xavier Veilhan, French Pavillion

National Pavilions / 57th Venice Biennale

#Venice Biennale #installation #recording

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Atone

Atone has its roots in the idea of reconciliation and harmony. It grew out of the Middle English phrase at on meaning “in harmony,” a phrase echoed in current expressions like “feeling at one with nature.” When atone joined modern English in the 16th century, it meant “to reconcile,” and suggested the restoration of a peaceful and harmonious state between people or groups. Today, atone specifically implies addressing the damage—or disharmony—caused by one’s own behavior.

#definition #words #reading

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Liner notes from Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like Rivers - Black Poets Read their work

2 x CD, Compilation, 2000

#liner notes #poetry #poetry recording #nikki giovanni

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Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like Rivers - Black Poets Read their work

2 x CD, Compilation, 2000

#poetry recording #poetry #recording #poets #CD #audre lorde #amiri baraka #nikki giovanni #tracie morris #langston hughes #WEb Dubois #Claude Mckay #James Weldon #Sterling A Brown #gwendolyn brooks #robert hayden #May aAngelou #Derek Walcott #The last poets #Lucille Clifton #Al Young #Sonia Sachez #Ishamel Reed #Wole Soyinka #Wanda Coleman #Gil Scott Heron #Rita Dove #Allison Joseph #Public Enemy

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Audre Lorde, Fasset Studio, 1970

Link to recording

#audre lorde #poetry reading #poetry #oral #speech #vinyl #poetry vinyl #poetry record

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Charlie Parker

David Hammons

#art #sculpture #instrument #david hammons

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Poetry in motion

Jayne Cortez

#poetry #jayne cortez #improvisation