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2019 Audio Tour With Gui Portel

My Gay Banjo is Owen Taylor and Julia Steele Allen on guitar, banjo, uke and vocals. Singing homespun gay-themed duets and occasional queered-up mash-ups, My Gay Banjo plays songs for you and your kind. 
www.mygaybanjo.com/

My Gay Banjo - How Many Kinds Of Courage (Song For Chelsea Manning)

Schmekel was a prominent force in the Brooklyn, NY transcore scene of the early 2010s. Mixing traditional klezmer motifs with punk sensibilities, Schmekel (which means “little penis” in Yiddish), challenged listeners to think critically about Judaism, queerness, and the sounds that accompany both. www.transjews.com

Schmekel  - Gay Shame

Pushing the boundaries of folk-Americana, North Carolina based Humble Tripe joins forces with producer MelissaYork (Amy Ray, The Butchies) on their most recent offering.  Moving from songwriter to symphony, resulting in a haunting landscape of beautiful swells, dramatic tension and space, Humble Tripe shines on their latest album, The Giving.  “A joy to behold, a collection of lovely, sublime melodies that shimmer and sparkle with a radiance all their own.”-- No Depression  

Humble Tripe - The Giving

This track brings together a medley of experimental sounds created during a QueerLab workshop led by interdisciplinary and multimedia artist Peter Pendergrass on May 14, 2014. 

Peter Pendergrass & QueerLab - Sound Art Experiments Medley

Hear about the often heartbreaking yet inspiring story of Raven Ridley Hilferty Ducamp - growing up intersexed, queer, bipolar and as a foster child. This podcast was produced by writer and multimedia artist Deonna Kelli Sayed.

Through the Fire: The Story of an Intersexed, Bipolar Queer Kid Who Rocks

Din Din is a new soundscape for the kitchen to draw attention to the room as an art installation.  It incorporates sounds commonly found in Elsewhere’s kitchen, like popcorn popping, dishes being washed and people whistling while they work. 

Laura Bigger - Din Din

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Guess who is coming to dinner (from Manifest Destiny: The Musical Series), Cosmo Whyte (Atlanta, GA). 
Southern Constellations Fellow. July 2016. Sound sculpture: armoire, dishware, glass pane.

“Guess who is coming to dinner (from the Manifest Destiny The Musical Series)” is a sound and sculptural installation focused on migration and hospitality. Typically when people think of migration they think of cities like New York and Los Angeles, but recently Southern cities like Atlanta, Baltimore, and North Carolina are seeing an unprecedented growth rate of immigrants looking to create a new life in their cities. North Carolina has declared itself one of the ‘welcome cities’ for its rapidly growing immigrant population.

During the booming 1990s, the percentage of immigrants more than tripled from 1.7 in the beginning of the decade to 5.3 percent. By 2014, it was 7.6 percent [1]. These changing demographics have outpaced the social response from those who have historically occupied these spaces.

At the heart of Whyte's series is the concept of Manifest Destiny, the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the Americas was both justified and inevitable. Throughout the larger series this doctrine is used as a means of exploring ideas of nationalism, and exceptionalism to find new ways of thinking through migration. The installation at Elsewhere focuses on hospitality and nationalism at a time when nationalism is at a high and state level policies have passed anti-immigration bills.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

We Went Down To O'Shea's Wood, Jane Cassidy (Tuscaloosa, AL). Southern Constellations Fellow. July 2016. Soundscape/Installation, LED lights.

We Went Down To O'Shea's Wood is an immersive audio visual light installation in the 'Glass Forest’ room. The piece fully activates in the evening hours, once the sun has gone down, and the vacuum of night beckons calm.

Multichannel ambient music lulls the viewer to a quietened state. From the ceiling, a series of miniature amber LEDs hang at different levels, reacting to the 4 channel original score. The lights respond to the music conversationally, flickering in an organic fashion.

Mirrors hung throughout the room bounce and refract light creating the illusion of a planetary landscape. Audiences are invited to move, explore and lie down in the multi-sensory installation as hundreds of suns nestled in the galaxy reflect infinitely.

We Went Down To O'Shea's Wood, inspired by the Southern Constellation Fellowship Residency and Cassidys own nostalgia, creates a peaceful environment in Elsewhere's otherwise active building. The installation is a place of respite for Elsewhere artists-in-residence when the public musem transforms into a private residence.

We Went Down To O'Shea's Wood

Voicing Elsewhere is a multi-channel audio installation that encapsulates a whole month within the artist residency, featuring the voices of the resident artists, interns, and staff living and working at the Living Museum. Rather than work primarily with objects in the collection, Kudler worked with the assemblage of denizens, sourcing subjects and material within a specific place and time— an ad hoc community and society snapshotted in sound.

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