Courtney
-voice, accordion, guitars, bass, computer
Influences
Paul Simon
Astor Piazzolla
Kurt Weill
Maryanne Amacher
Pauline Oliveros
Yann Tiersen
The Cure
Morrissey
Lhasa De Sela
Paul Lansky
Björk
Arvo Pärt
Iva Bittova
Bang on a Can
Tori Amos
Joan La Barbara
Carissa's Wierd
Guy Klucevsek
Richard Galliano
Jarvis Cocker
Larry Polansky
Newton Armstrong
Jon Appleton
Carmen Caruso
Kristina Wolfe
Kui Dong
Ute Lemper
Steve Reich
Merce Cunningham
Martha Graham
Christian Wolff
Tristan Tzara
Marcel Duchamp
John Cage
Maya Deren
Stan Brakhage
Marina Abramovic
Stelarc
Antonin Artaud
Stanislavski
Alfred Schnittke
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.
yeah. i want to whip out some super duper x-mas presents!! i am choking on the pressure. need to relax! ginger says happy birthday, by the way. i know i am late telling you that! i did a really neat solar etching! you kind of need to see it tho. i can't wait til you get here! kisses n hugs!
i awoke to your sonorous voice filling the house, and as i laid there, still half-asleep, i thought, no, hoped, you were here, singing, occupying the house with song, like you used to, and in that moment I felt your presence, like you were in another room, and i missed you so badly.
Did you receive my e-card?!?! Happy Birthday... did you celebrate? I got a new job as a physical/occupational therapist for a lady in desperate need of help. Everyone else didn't come back a second time!! We're gettin' there...
Shaun Dickerson is a vile, vacuous human being and I deleted him from my friends. You should too in solidarity. Also, you don't give a shit about him and you give a great deal of shit about me. Happy pre-Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HeY bebe!! Couldn't find Jeff's profile: what's that crazy boy up to? I added most of your friends I've met so use your powers to get them to accept in a timely fashion. You can do most things with your mind these days, right? Call me. I LOVE MY SISTER!!!!!!!!!Whose twin is the most beautiful & talented? Mine is!!!!!!! Of course, I'm insulted you even had to ask.
Hi, just popping by to thank you for being a friend of Café du MIDI, thank you for letting us see and hear your profile... and to most of all, wish you a fabulous day!!!!
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