Word: musics
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...musicians as your influences yet you are very active in the contemporary indie scene. You worked on albums with Beth Orton and Cat Power and you co-produced one of Jenny Lewis's albums. Do you listen to contemporary stuff now? Not as much as I listen to older music. I'm definitely inspired by music that's happening today and the music of my friends, but my biggest influences are still older records...
Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...
What is the music scene like in Portland? A lot of people are moving here, artists are moving here because by and large it's the cheapest city. It's incredible. I've lived here since 2000 which is when I starting making my first record and was making music full time. There's a big music scene and of course we have all the coffee shops. I love it. I have no plans on leaving. We have pretty dreary weather in the wintertime which draws people indoors to make music...
What do you do when you're not playing or recording music? I have a lot of friends and family that live here so I spend time with them. I walk around. I eat. Normal everyday things. I have no significant hobbies unless you call reading a hobby. Is that a hobby...
...destabilize gender. Each performed by exclusively male or female groups, the dances play with societal conceptions of masculinity and femininity. “Sarabande” much like Egon Schiele’s “Self-Portrait Masturbating,” centers on male bodily function in both music and movement. Under hovering dresses, the miked dancers pulled off their pink t-shirts, stretching them in front of their genitals, while their grunts sounded eerily. In another similarly masturbatory moment, a male dancer gyrates and touches himself while the others watch. The eight female dancers...