Harmonic Distortion

Digital voice  reading of song titles beginning with “I” is also from the index of the book ” Visions of Jazz” by Gary Giddins.

Readings from the Index-Ego

A reading of songs titles containing the word Blue. This list is from the index of Gary Giddins book “Visions of Jazz”. Mixed with the Modern Jazz Quartet the list is read by a voice named ‘Bruce’ found in the Mac speech program. First exhibited in Milan, Italy for the exhibition Americas Re-mixed, at Mostra d’ arte Contemporanea Fabbrica del Vapore in 2003, it has been remastered for presentation here.

Reading from the index-Blues

Variant Static

REST- Dopamine Rising

The first minute of Miles Davis "In a Silent Way"  slowed tempo to John Cage's 4'33, hence "Caged".

Slowly, In a Silent Way, Caged

Billie Holiday's last performance at Newport 1957.



What a little moonlight

Contemporary Art Museum in Houston - Audio Interview about What a Little Moon Light which was presented as a podcast and was a part of the exhibition Black light, White Noise - Sound and Light in Contemporary Art in 2007.

Interview - Contemporary Art Museum Houston

Ella Fitzgerald, mixed in concert with herself and looped.

Sweet, Simple, Surrender

Mining a drum solo, from side A. with a flute solo on side B. on cassette tape of the 1969 LP  PolyCurrents

Cassette Mixing Elvin and Flute

From the low is a 2 movement score comprised of micro samples of low end classical and jazz scores. This was part of the exhibition Absorb/Diffuse at the Kitchen, NYC 2011.

From The LOW - 1st Movemnent- 1st Mix

Cassette mixing from Elvin Jones Poly Current 1969 LP on tape. Live and uncut walkman performance

Cassette Mixing - long playing uncut

26 Billie Holiday songs mixed and stacked so the longest track narrows down to a single phrase.

You Make Me Feel Like 100 Billie Holiday Songs

tempo altered piccolo with tempo altered tube. High and Low end.

Piccolo Largo

Tempo altered Tuba with Fiffe edited from Otha Turner

Tuba Grave

one of my early sound pieces, rempving all instruments from the song "Little Max" chaining together a string or micro drum solo's with 4 Charlie Parker notes altered tempo

Slow Birds

ella stretched tempo-referencing her memorex ad when she shatters glass with her voice

Scat, Pitch and Shatter

Pitch Extended

Jennie C Jones is a sonic and visual artist, living and working in Brooklyn NY. Her work has been exhibited and heard at The Kitchen (NYC), The Hirshhorn Museum of Art (Washington DC) The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Contemporary Art Museum Houston among numerous other venues. 

Her audio works most often function in tandem with the installation of 'acoustic panel paintings' and 'scores' or works on paper. She has a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Rutgers University. 

Jennie C Jones

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