Courtney Brown

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Boston Globe's Top 5 Picks Courtney Brown and Carmen Caruso

"Both are members of Electrolab, a subversive soprano/accordion/DJ collective, and odds are good this performance will include moaning, shrieking, computers, postmodern cabaret, fringe theories of performance, and tango." -- Joan Anderman of The Boston Globe

SEAMUS 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, April 3, 4PM

EXCITING Premiere of "Pop Presto No. 2", a work for fixed media

Bio

Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her most recent work, Every Night I Lose Control, is an electronic post-modern cabaret act that explores the ideas of disintegration and failure. Every piece is designed so that she, as a performer, will fail. This show follows the trajectory of her attempts to regain balance and composure in the wreckage. Heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, and early goth rock, this work explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer.

She is a founding member of Electrocab, a trio of performers/composers who invent new musical spaces with two soprano voices, an accordion, and a DJ. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and more. She is the founder of Seductivism, an art movement based on the play of appearances.

Email: courtney [dot] brown [at] dartmouth [dot] edu
Address: Electro-Acoustic Music Program, Dartmouth College
6242 Hallgarten Hall, Hanover, NH 03755

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