SON[I]A #252. Judy Dunaway
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Judy Dunaway that we were unable to include the first time around.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Céline Gillain that we were unable to include the first time around.
An Orchid in the Land of Technology
The recording, as memory/archive, as instrument, as transcription of a perfect performance, and as sound art using field recordings.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Alvin Lucier that we were unable to include the first time around.
Céline Gillain
Belgian artist and musician Céline Gillain split her time between working as a high school art teacher and the solitary practice of painting in her Brussels studio, until one day she had enough and organised a residency for six female artists at her grandmother’s house. Five years of collective experimentation with other women paved the way for the creation of hybrid, solo performances combining artistic research, the staging of her speculative writing, and catchy pop songs, carefully woven through complex and seemingly sooth and seamless narratives. We talk with Céline about her incursion into the music industry, stage fright, the power of fragility and depression as a form of resistance today. Paradoxically, her current media of choice are a mix of pop songs, motivational speeches, and updated fictions from the entertainment world, which run through everyday life in a darkly humorous, inimitable way.
In PROBES #24, toys, music boxes and balloons find new roles in contemporary compositions, pop performances, film scores and jazz improvisation, as composers explore alternative acoustic sources for extended, non-electronic, sounds.
Judy Dunaway
Judy Dunaway talks about tenor balloons, improvisation, greyhound buses, Western music, the AIDS crisis, studying with Alvin Lucier, working day-jobs and learning to play a well-tuned piano.