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This is a recording of the poem “The Weeping Tree” by Kathleen Lohr. The Weeping Tree

This is a recording of the poem “Emmett Till” by James A. Emmanuel. Emmett Till

This is a recording of the poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till.”The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

This work explores my reaction to the Kevin Sipp and Keith Washington Exhibit. I found it quite interesting the way in which Kevin Sipp’s installation was so overt in relation to the work of Keith Washington. In order to display this idea I have paired my audio commentaries with two slave dirges, Listen to the Lambs and My God Done Been Here in order to show that coded messages exist under melodic and seemingly simple things. Listen to the Lambs

This is a short musing on being a solitary human in a museum space.

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I originally contributed 2 audio clips to Kevin Sipp’s installation/soundscape — a segment of the Tanakh, ‘Lamentations,’ and a piece of Holocaust survivor poetry, ‘You Onlookers’ by Nelly Sachs. I have since paired them with music I found gave more depth and context to my choices. The ‘Lamentations’ track now includes some of Louis Armstrong’s ‘Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans,’ as a tribute to Rabbi Lehman’s experience of loss and his musical/emotional response to Katrina.

I then found some live klezmer music to combine with the Sachs poem. I feel both have a tone of celebration in light of tragedy, a theme of lost pleasure. The innately mournful mode & mood of klezmer feels fitting for the memorial of life in Sachs’ poem.

>> Lamentations/New Orleans
>> Harschl/Onlookers

As you have probably guessed by now, my audio contribution relates to my visit to the museum of sex in manhattan last summer. I viewed two exhibits, one called “Vamps and Virgins: The Evolution of American Pinup Photography from 1860 to 1960″ and the other entitled “Stags, Smokers & Blue Movies: The Origins of American Pornographic Film.” Enjoy!

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This podcast is in responce to my last ipod assignment for the class. The critique was that this art work would have been loved andadmired for a masterpiece even if the museum would have displayed it differently. Though I do agree with that to a point, I also have more to say on the subject, and did so via the podcast. Enjoy!
Kerry