Ventolyn  Becotyde - 18 - Swizzelstick Hill Tops feat Sebi Ceretide

Alice falling down the rabbit hole is used here as a metaphor for Alice becoming blind, in the dark she must create her own world to the music she hears and creates an A-tonal direct responce to this feeling. In the darkness the shifting senses heighten both each other and individually so that the viewers semi state of blindness in the room is an insight into Alice's world, both her reality and her imagined reality.

Rabbit Dance

In the queer punk film from 1980, Times Square directed by Alan Moyle, two teenage girls meet in the psychiatric ward of a Neurological Hospital in NYC and, sensing a shared purpose and a mutual instinct for rebellion, they shed their hospital gowns, don garbage bags and run from the hospital to become part of the discarded denizens of Times Square. Refusing all psychiatric
diagnoses of their disaffection, Pammy and Nicky, resist psychologized accounts of injury and project the injury back onto the society as a whole. They have been wounded but their wounds are not the problem, the problem lies in a racist and homophobic world that regards them and the queer worlds they inhabit as obstacles to the “safe” and “clean” version of NYC to which local politicians have committed. The film, emerging as it does on the very cusp of the AIDS crisis and just before the clean up of Times Square and at the very beginning of the Reagan years, represents a lost world of queer rebellion that instructs us now on the tactics and the cultures of revolt that were swept aside by neo-liberal discourses of respectability, responsibility and social hygiene.
This talk wants to explore (without romanticizing) with Nicky and Pammy the potential of the unsafe and the unclean. In the Patti Smith song at the core of the film Smith asks: “Should I pursue a path so twisted?/Should I crawl defeated and gifted?” Taking this terminology from “Pissing in the River” as a vocabulary for punk feminism, let’s
venture into the wild world of Times Square not to find what has been lost but to unlearn the lessons of compliance that are nested within all discourses of improvement, recovery and health.

Jack Halberstam Talk & Q&A at 'Pedagogics of Unlearning' 2014

Oneohtrix Point Never - Andro

Simple piano outline to a piece I am working on.

Waves (unedited original composition) by Joanne Stack

Waterfalls in Japan Original Piano Composition by Joanne Stack

someday soon i'll be able to convey my feelings through my music

Brazìl

Pardon Me

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It's water to me
(all under)

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[thank you to Hannah and Chris
for making the moment]

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Brücke

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Jack Halberstam Talk & Q&A at 'Pedagogics of Unlearning' 2014

Gareth Stack

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