Voguing is not a crime
Mixed Music
Fields recordings, no input mixing, Modular Synthesither
30”
2023
Score of the first and second movements
The 29 of July 2023 O’shae Sibley was fatally stabbed while voguing at a Brooklyn gas station.
He was murdered for being black, queer and proud. He was 28 years old.
In a global climate of normalized hatred where certain lives are exposed to extreme systemic violences, my music has become a place for the expression of my deep anger and sadness.
Voguins is not a crime is a mixed music composition. The piece is overlapping a fixed electroacoustic composition and a live musical work.
The electroacoustics parts are made of Youtube’s vidéo extract of American’s demonstration claiming justice and peace. Is also features deconstructed fragments of my piece Cendres.
Rather than a concert, this performance was an electronic ritual, a celebration through collective listening.
recording of the performance at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, FR.
Performance at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, FR
VHS Video by French Artist Andres Komatsu.
17-10-2023.