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Courtney Brown
- Brooklyn, NY
- United States
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- www.courtney-brown.net
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- About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.
- I am a composer and a performer. I view the act of listening and processing the meaning in art to be a creative act, and I compose music and art to invite an audience to engage in this act.
I often explore the the fragility of physical existence in my performances and works. I am interested in raising questions about the musician as a body, and the subjective experience of existing in a physical body with limitations. To this end, I design performances wherein it is inevitable that I fail, lose control, or experience physical difficulty or uncertainty of outcome. I also use the sounds that can imply failure: static that sounds like broken speakers, etc.
Additionally, I am interested things that fall apart, and liminality, the experience of being between states, on the verge. I have been exploring using rhythm to fall in and out of grooves and expected patterns. I often use rhythms layered on top of one another so that the music alludes to a style or genre only in brief moments. I am interested in the point at which the music is suggestive, before the moment of recognition of an idea or musical concept.
Stylistically, I have been very influenced by music inspired by dance, especially the tango. I frequently borrow rhythmic patterns from tango, flamenco, bhangra and other types of dance music. I am also influenced by early goth music, Weimar cabaret, late Romanticism, American 20th C. avant-garde (Cage, Cowell, etc.), Musique concrete, and French chanson. In terms of performance art, I have been inspired by the ideas and works of Artaud, Marina Abramovich, and Stelarc.
- Background:
- musician, video artist, performance artist, new media artist, composer
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