Party Teen #1 (2017)

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Program Notes:

I wrote Party Teen #1 in confrontation with expectations of feminine emotionality in music. In this piece, I use the sounds of a screaming woman to explore how the acousmatic voice can separate not only sound and body, but also sound and emotion. Screaming is usually unpremeditated and can express fear, pain, excitement, or surprise. When voluntary, screaming can be used as a form of explosive liberation and power.

Performances:

-The National Student Electronic Music Event (N_SEME) (Charlottesville, Virginia), February 2019 *8-channel revision

-Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) (Romeoville, Illinois), October 2018

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