Vivian Hua 華婷婷Hidden beneath the gargantuan, State-driven China that is emphasized over-and-over again in news coverage lies an artistic day-to-day that few people see. As in any developing country, China has become a breeding ground for new and often innovative...
Lital KhaikinButoh dancing (舞踏) is an expression of body that has found relevance outside of its roots in Japan, across cultures and generations. "Butoh, as [with] so many true arts, contains the beautiful spectrum of being. Often these first looks at Butoh are...
The character of my fondness for Michael Jackson and Friedrich Nietzsche is very similar. Despite both of these men being extremely influential and leaving behind highly celebrated bodies of work, they are also both often considered tragic cases on...
"We're not just trying to give people a place to go and dance and listen to music. Instead, we're trying to inspire people to gather, celebrate and learn in a responsible and healthy way so they can inspire change in the world when they leave." –...
“Music is the art of the intonated sense; the sound, the groan, the cry and the song where the aural quintessence of the spiritual world of human beings. The aura that personifies sound is transparent through timbre and tone, envelops and tightens...
John Coltrane once said: “My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It...
An in-depth feature about the Icelandic music scene, with interviews with top Icelandic musicians, and three mixtapes with MP3 downloads and streams.
![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=w2jMV4b4yG8AX-XtcPS&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT-ew3nH1uFLDwHeqUwaeqlhEQfvm9b1NKgJiRg6OYZZCQ&oe=61ECB7C6)
![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=ENz4yy1McwgAX80Z9CH&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT85cOezoVNuzyZy1XjSPVr7ig8IgDqSCtXtim4Bs3Ll9g&oe=61EBD539)
