Arrived last night, without my suitcase. Rains in Miami delayed my flight from Boston, so I just made the connection to my Kingston-bound plane. Unfortunately, my suitcase did not. I have my computer with me, and a contact lens case. But that's about it.
Here at Destiny Productions, the office of the man who also runs Students Expressing Truth. SET is the group that is running the project in the Jamaican prison system, setting up computer labs, low power radio stations, and record studios so that inmates can communicate, create and transform. There is already a radio up at Tower Street, and soon one will go up at Fort Augusta (the women's prison), or possibly South Camp.
Destiny productions is an all-round event production company. It's (mercifully) air conditioned, clean, and has wireless internet, so I plan to spend significant time here.
we are off to the prison now, more later.
About Me
- ripley
- I mix music to highlight difference rather than seamlessness. Cracking open assumptions about what people relate to – pulling out familiar songs and sounds from people’s childhood or community, and layering them with foreign, distant sounds in ways that make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Music exists because it crosses borders, literally and figuratively. Physical borders: eardrums, walls, and legal borders: nations, zones. The best musical experiences often occur outside legal frameworks of ownership and licenses (breaking zoning laws, squatted buildings, pirate radio). Although I am not always in official control of the venues in which I perform, I put myself and the audience in undeniable literal control of the space, to the point of creating a kind of solidarity of pleasure across social boundaries. My main goal is challenge the assumption that difference breeds division and distrust – instead, difference, rupture, foreign-ness is a site of conscious, open-eyed and physical pleasure.
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