Courtney Brown

Projects

Performance Series

Sidewalk Tzara

A performance series that showcases new and experimental music and forms of new- and multi-media. The first week of most months at the Outpost 186 in Boston, MA. For booking and more information please go to the Sidewalk Tzara site.

Collaboration and Ensemble

Juddertone Collaboration with Eva Perrotta

Working with choreographer Eva Perrotta (Nu Dance Theater) for the Juddertone project which shows in Boston in November. You can follow the collaborative process here, as well as see some of the other projects.

Woo!! Brown Duo

with Justin Woo (dj, electronics, laptop, etc.)
Various and sundry improvisations with breath, pop music, water, jars, vinegar + baking soda, live electronic paraphernalia. Currently working on a hybrid music theater/spoken word piece on the breakdown of communication

Sound. Picture. Coif.

Collaboration with Kristina Wolfe (video) and Alissandra Hipona (hairstylist). Live haircut, styling, video, and electronic sound. Performance as process. First performance Feb. 5, 2009 at the Outpost 186 in Boston! Video of the performance is here.

Electrocab

An ensemble formed with Carmen Caruso and John Arroyo that was active from 2007-2008. Two sopranos, an accordion, keyboards, live electronics, and turntables. Too many genres. That strange beast.
Go to ElectrocabMusic.com

Solo Projects

In Transit.

I will travel on every subway line in NYC from beginning to end, simply recording the sound and the time at which the train makes stops. This information and audio is then translated into a sound installation. Audience members will wear wireless headphones and their locations will be tracked. An invisible subway map will be projected upon the space, and when ever a user is in the right place on the map, and the right relative time, they will hear the sounds of that particuar subway passing through that particular point in space.

Every Night I Lose Control

Electronic post-modern cabaret act that explores the ideas of disintegration and failure. Every piece is designed so that the 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.

Read the thesis.

Seductivism

I vomit all over authenticity.
Read the manifesto.