ICMC/25/d2/1100 Concert n05/06 Self-Censorship
Self-Censorship
- 11:54 tons of reverb. we have dissolving screen stuff with people holding a finger in front of a mouth
- echoes, crashes
- powerful, well-performed #Violin ! some of the lines remind me of Person/John Adams/Violin Concerto
#Composer #Performer Person/Cecilia Suhr
- Cecilia Suhr is an award-winning intermedia artist, researcher, and multi-instrumentalist (violin, cello, voice, piano, bamboo flute). Her interdisciplinary work spans music, visual art, interactive media, and academic research. Her accolades include the Pauline Oliveros Award from the IAWM, a MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Grant, an Honorable Mention from the American Prize, and medals from the Cambridge Music Competition and the Global Music Awards, among others. Her music has been showcased internationally at leading festivals and conferences such as ICMC, SEAMUS, NYCEMF, Mise-En Music Festival, New Music on the Bayou, Performing Media Art Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, Splice Festival, Mantis Festival, TENOR, EMM, SCI, BEAST Feast, MoXsonic, and more. She is also the author of Social Media and Music (Peter Lang, 2012) and Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities (MIT Press, 2014). She currently serves as a full professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Arts at Miami University Regionals.
#Description
- Self-censorship is a multimedia performance representing disenfranchised and oppressed voices.
- It combines a loosely improvised violin performance with live processing and fixed media featuring an Instrument/Flute/Bamboo. The live violin music interacts with the visual elements in real-time. This piece depicts the push to silence minorities, women, and other marginalized groups. While there is a strong desire to speak up, one pulls back due to fear, force, and the possibility of retribution and negative consequences. Overall, this piece depicts the tyranny and frustration that stem from having to exercise self-censorship while empowering underrepresented and powerless groups to speak up.