Art you can dance to: the wild, weird sounds of Tracy + the Plastics are fit for both booty shakers and performance art fans.Culture for Pigeon * Tracy + the Plastics Tracy + the Plastics is the name of the electro-pop solo project of Wynne Greenwood, a lesbian feminist video artist based in Olympia, Washington. The music consists of a Boss DR-5 drum machine, an Akai 612 disc sampler and anything else Tracy, Nikki, and Cola feel like using. * Troubleman Unlimited Is Tracy + the Plastics a queer electro band? A video project? High-concept performance art? All of the above. The Plastics' Wynne Greenwood has been making the queer musical underground swoon for years, but this spring she hit the big time when she was picked for the prestigious Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1918. exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The latest Tracy + the Plastics album, Culture for Pigeon--which includes both a musical CD and a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. version of her video performance--sheds some light oil wily this project so successfully crosses borders between high art and pop music. Culture for Pigeon's songs fit into the same electronic dance-punk mold as the project's earlier work but with more complex rhythmic sensibilities and increasingly off-kilter beats. There's a broader range of songs as well, from the understated, pretty "Big Stereo" to the industrial-sounding "Knit a Claw." Greenwood's voice affects an eerie robotic vibrato vi·bra·to n. pl. vi·bra·tos A tremulous or pulsating effect produced in an instrumental or vocal tone by minute and rapid variations in pitch. in places, while on other songs it sounds gentle, wistful, or bluesy. And the production values are head and shoulders above the willfully willfully adv. referring to doing something intentionally, purposefully and stubbornly. Examples: "He drove the car willfully into the crowd on the sidewalk." "She willfully left the dangerous substances on the property." (See: willful) loft debut album, 2001's Muscler's Guide to Videonics. Don't miss the DVD that comes with the new album, which has Greenwood playing three characters (including bandleader Tracy) and discussing "the lesbian creature as constantly disappearing," only to find herself erased from the screen by a digitally created lavender blob. |
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