Television.by Latasha Natasha Diggs Surya Sounds, 2003 mszuliemusic@yahoo.com The CD solo debut by sound poet Diggs tells the story of a household of black women and their television sets. Diggs surfs through audio genres from noise and house music to harmonic harmonic. 1 Physical term describing the vibration in segments of a sound-producing body (see sound). A string vibrates simultaneously in its whole length and in segments of halves, thirds, fourths, etc. jazz and sound poetry. It opens with the bass guitar-driven "Shiawase," a sitcom inspired love song in which a lover is compared to TV icons. "Hermana Angie," a narrative poem performed over a house beat, portrays a woman who uses television to avoid reality. In "December 11" the speaker watches television from her mother's hospital room. We hear heart monitors and hospital intercoms beneath real and "IV tragedies. "Really," a piece with woodwind instruments woodwind instrument: see wind instrument. woodwind instrument Any musical wind instrument that produces sound by either directing a stream of air against the edge of a hole or by making a reed or a double reed vibrate (see reed instrument). and vocals, may remind listeners of Abbey Lincoln's "Freedom Suite" collaboration with Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was a bebop/hard bop percussionist, drummer, and composer. He worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins . The CD ends with a beautifully crafted a cappella a cap·pel·la adv. Music Without instrumental accompaniment. [Italian : a, in the manner of + cappella, chapel, choir.] Adj. 1. performance of "Pistology," a poem in a language that sounds part English, part Spanish, and part Japanese. These shifts are at times overwhelming, But even when elements are obscured in the dense mix, Television glows. Mendi Lewis Obadike is the author of Armor and Flesh. Her Web- and sound-based works can be found at blacknetart.com. She teaches at Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the engineering department of Columbia Univ. . |
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