Crosstalk: American Speech Music
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Crosstalk: American Speech Music is a compilation album
of speech-based music by various composers, poets, visual artists and DJs.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
of speech-based music by various composers, poets, visual artists and DJs.
Track listing
- "Declaratives in First Person" (Pamela ZPamela ZPamela Z is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing.-Music career:...
) – 5:04 - "Electroprayer 5.0" (Guillermo E. BrownGuillermo E. BrownGuillermo E. Brown is a free jazz drummer who has performed or recorded with Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware, George Lewis and others. In 2008 his work "Electro Prayer 5.0" was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music produced by Mendi & Keith Obadike.- References :...
) – 3:27 - "Africa(n)" (Tracie MorrisTracie MorrisTracie Morris is an American poet, performer, vocalist and academic originally from Brooklyn, New York.-Career:Morris emerged as a performer and writer from the Lower East Side poetry scene in the early 1990s. She became known as a local performer in the "slam" scene located in the Nuyorican Poets...
) – 3:30 - "In the Basement" (Shelley HirschShelley HirschShelley Hirsch is a singer, performer, and composer. Central to Hirsch's work are her versatile vocal abilities, which are often enmeshed in a kaleidoscope of electronic music and sound effects....
) – 3:08 - "Chatter of Pins" (Paul LanskyPaul LanskyPaul Lansky is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day .-Biography:...
) – 11:19 - "The Pink of Stealth" (Mendi Obadike, Keith ObadikeMendi & Keith ObadikeMendi Obadike and Keith Obadike are a married Igbo Nigerian American couple who create music and art. They were both born in 1973. Their music, live art, and conceptual Internet artworks have been exhibited internationally. Mendi is a poet and Keith is a composer and sound designer...
) – 6:18 - "Being Black" (DJ SpookyDJ SpookyPaul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...
) – 1:15 - "Blimp/Sky [From One Loss Plus]" (Daniel Bernard RoumainDaniel Bernard RoumainDaniel Bernard Roumain is a classically trained composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader noted for blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into an energetic and experiential sonic form. DBR is of Haitian-American heritage and he attended Dillard Center for the Arts in Fort...
) – 5:02 - "The Society Architect Ponders the Golden Gate Bridge" (Peter GordonPeter Laurence GordonPeter Gordon is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music draws from influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music...
/Lawrence WeinerLawrence WeinerLawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
) – 13:40) - "Rodeo Red" (Mendi Obadike, Keith Obadike) – 3:10
- "Morning Blues for Yvan" (George LewisGeorge Lewis (trombonist)George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
) – 6:12 - "Life Studies, Movement #1" (John LinkJohn LinkJohn Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New MusicIn 2008 an excerpt of his work "Life Studies" was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike...
) – 5:12 - "Redemption Chant 2.0" (Vijay IyerVijay IyerVijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York City.-Biography:Born in 1971 and raised in Rochester, New York, Vijay Iyer is the son of Indian Tamil immigrants to the US. He received 15 years of Western classical training on violin...
) – 3:38