Monday, January 28, 2013

The sound of sile--- my own voice

OK. Sorry. I've already written a shit ton in the last hour. But I need to get one more artist in for today. And it's Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. I met him. I melted. I saw his work "Day Breaks Instead of Night Falling" and my proverbial prairie cherries dropped. I don't know what makes them proverbial but it sounds cool.

I promise I will write more. But Benny is a performance artist/visual artist/awesomesauce artist who does amazing work with video, sound, writing and performance on a range of issues that could be viewed as 'queer' or could not, and that's ok.

For the purpose of this- I'm going to focus on a couple of his works, but mainly his early and continual fascination with sound and the sound of his own voice- and the the the the sound of queer effeminate male voice.

My starting point is his book:

Sounding Selves

Here is a video of some of his stuff:

Rosa Song

It's a recreation, and it gorgeous.

Ta,

Johnny.



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