Photo courtesy of PO Box Collective in Chicago Located in major cities, rural areas, and all types of geographies in-between, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) organizers, collectives, and cultural spaces can...
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Zeb LarsonMusic preservation efforts go beyond strictly archival functions. They challenge our understanding of certain genres that have been historically associated with just a few major cities. For individual musicians who have never profited from their...
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"[The] purpose of my glitch art isn't to destroy my photographs, but to expose the mechanisms beneath the surface, to turn an image inside out and expose its entrails, to invite viewers to immerse themselves in this seemingly undecipherable space...
![JJJJJerome Ellis Interview: Blackness, Dysfluency, and Music to Open Up Time -- by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora
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* JJJJJerome Ellis speaks with a stutter. He asked that his stutters be included in the transcription of this interview as a gesture towards others who speak dysfluently, so that they might see themselves recognized... *
With the release of his late 2021 record and book, The Clearing, the Virginia-based, disabled Black musician and writer presents to the world a new kind of performance... The Clearing builds on an essay he wrote for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies in 2020. titled, “The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time,” which argues that the stutter is a space for temporal possibility and political resistance rather than a burden.
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By weaving recordings of spoken passages from the original academic essay together with ambient soundscapes, trap beats, and jazz improvisations, Ellis turns essay into performance, a way to embody and explore the radical possibilities of his stutter across an hour-long album. In this way, the listener is invited to experience the stutter, to witness the ways it disrupts rigid definitions of linear time, to cultivate patience in the face of the unknown.
#jjjjjeromeellis #NNATapes #JeromeEllis #GlottalBlock #Disabled #Jazz #Poetry #SpokenWord #TheClearing #BlackWriter #BlackMusician #Dysfluency #DysfluentWaters #Blackness #PoliticalResistance #Resistance #MLKDay #NorthernSpyRecords #Stutter #Stuttering #AncestralTime #TakeTime #SlowDown @nnatapes @jjjjjeromeellis @northernspyrecs](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/272034959_990360011859209_123041203805632831_n.webp.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=MTJlxv2z-oAAX97r9Bd&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT8xx_7NwV1Ye-5g4-aiQZd2g0tVqnLNrT3Ct1eaDK4nxQ&oe=61F0AC46)
![JJJJJerome Ellis Interview: Blackness, Dysfluency, and Music to Open Up Time -- by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora
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LISTEN TO THE RECORD
& READ THE INTERVIEW:
http://bit.ly/redefinedisfluency
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* JJJJJerome Ellis speaks with a stutter. He asked that his stutters be included in the transcription of this interview as a gesture towards others who speak dysfluently, so that they might see themselves recognized... *
With the release of his late 2021 record and book, The Clearing, the Virginia-based, disabled Black musician and writer presents to the world a new kind of performance... The Clearing builds on an essay he wrote for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies in 2020. titled, “The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time,” which argues that the stutter is a space for temporal possibility and political resistance rather than a burden.
[...]
By weaving recordings of spoken passages from the original academic essay together with ambient soundscapes, trap beats, and jazz improvisations, Ellis turns essay into performance, a way to embody and explore the radical possibilities of his stutter across an hour-long album. In this way, the listener is invited to experience the stutter, to witness the ways it disrupts rigid definitions of linear time, to cultivate patience in the face of the unknown.
#jjjjjeromeellis #NNATapes #JeromeEllis #GlottalBlock #Disabled #Jazz #Poetry #SpokenWord #TheClearing #BlackWriter #BlackMusician #Dysfluency #DysfluentWaters #Blackness #PoliticalResistance #Resistance #MLKDay #NorthernSpyRecords #Stutter #Stuttering #AncestralTime #TakeTime #SlowDown @nnatapes @jjjjjeromeellis @northernspyrecs](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/272056901_352181096433976_8589679357470220711_n.webp.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=uxc4RFKV2H4AX8AcRGW&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT_jHGwDcdKYxH5hhf8KPmZIwGjuR4L6YoZe1E6u5w1d7Q&oe=61EFC9B9)
