Written and Performed by Barrett Riggins
Drums - Avi Ballo
Violins - Felix Herbst

Lyrics:
Get some sleep
Rest your head
Figure all of the things that she said as shapes
And color them red

Watch for 'calm'
See the 'space'
Try to stimulate what's feeling stale
Attempt to abstractly displace

Idle search
For what's in our heart
Is that where this all adds up to?
Some work
Creating our modern art
Interpret it anyway you can

Options stay
Sharper turns
Light the edges and watch the aesthetic shift
Shift while everything burns

Splattered thick
Palette full
Every piece dedicated to losing you
Made no push or a pull

When I've left
I've seen you watch me depart
And that is my blankest canvas
Some joke
Creating our modern art
Interpret it every way you can

When you've left
You've never fallen apart
And I'm always falling slowly
Some shit
Creating our modern art
But I'll do the very best I can

© Barrett Riggins. All Rights Reserved. 

Modern Art (demo)

Written by Barrett Riggins

TAPE CASSETTE

New York City, she forgets 
charged her twenty five dollars for some cigarettes 
& a slow train home

Dollar coffee, real estate
in several hours she can hibernate 
on a slow train home

New York City, she prefers 
thinking out of all the other fictions this one's hers
it's a slow ride home

She asks: 
am I visible in kaleidoscopic light inviting me to dance tonight?

New York City, she recalls 
promised pity & reflections on the subway walls 
& she's missing home

Dollar coffee, cigarettes 
the distant murmuring of tape cassettes 
all her sounds of home

New York City, she pretends 
gave her several hundred thousand means to zero ends
but a slow train home

New York City, she admits 
offers some invincibility to hypocrites
on their slow ride home

She asks: 
am I beautiful dressed in anonymity that losing you afforded me?

& if I'm invisible in kaleidoscopic light 
I'll dance alone tonight
I'll dance tonight

She'll dance tonight

CasioPostGrad EP

Tape Cassette

/ with open \
     arms 
    I sank 
    [intwo]
      and 
-never thought-
     to ask

MIDI drums cred: Samuel F. Phillips @sampl_

A little memory from last summer at my favourite festival in the world. Sending love to everyone in these trying times. It looks like it's gonna take a while before we'll be able to dance together again... Until then, check in on each other, stay safe and stay home. <3

Job Jobse - Sunrise at the last ever Nachtdigital - Olganitz, August 2019

@julianahuxtable continually crosses boundaries and breaks down borders. Her multidisciplinary art takes in writing, performing, poetry, DJing and running the Shock Value nightlife project in New York, where the Texan currently lives. She explores themes of history, the body, the internet and much more, often with a strong sense of personal identity. Next to solo exhibitions she has authored two books, worked as a Visiting Artists Program lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is involved with a number of collectives that challenge gender norms, interrogate notions of race and engage with socio-political issues and sexuality, often in visceral ways. 

This week's mix is just as direct and physical. It is a sound college filled with rage and confrontation, where brutalist industrial textures and squealing synths crash into banging techno. Human voices are mangled into walls of white noise and uncontrollable machines run riot in what could be a soundtrack to the end of the world, or the start of a new one.

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Dekmantel Podcast 288 - Juliana Huxtable

Songs | Loops | Half thoughts

~ a grab at songwriting and production ~

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