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Activism Through Anger

by Aidan Bonner

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SCUM (feat. Robin Jacobson) 01:17
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Dead Girls (feat. Ariel Wile) 01:26
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Confinement (feat. April Weagle) 05:01
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Gay Bar (feat. Jonah Hodari) 01:29
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President (feat. Jessamine Manchester) 02:00
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Spell (feat. Kim Lewis) 01:40
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As a project for class, I took readings from the course and wrote instrumentals to accompany them, in order to more fully explore what these pieces are. Any profits made directly from this EP will be sent to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Project description:
For my capstone project, I wanted to explore the emotions that fuel activism and why we turn to it. Over the course of the semester, we spent a majority of our time discussing activism in many different shapes, from environmental activism to societal inequality, and as we discussed these topics I became increasingly invested in the emotions behind each piece we discussed. What motivated these writers to create these works? What do they say about activism and the emotional experience of being oppressed?
I sought to explore these questions through a musical lens, further expanding on the emotional aspect of each piece by creating instrumental pieces to compliment the words of each writer. I chose this direction because I’ve always seen music as both an extension of poetry and the best form of artistic emotional expression. Yes, the written word is an excellent tool for describing a feeling, as each of the writers whose work I adapted have proven, but music provides different opportunities in representing feelings that are hard to explain. From a deep rooted pit in your stomach to a blood boiling adrenaline rush, sometimes a feeling is best established with no words at all. The first half of the EP explores the effects of anger on activism while the second half details experiences of hope. In order to engage with these ideas, I wrote six songs and recorded them on my laptop with garageband, as this is the only resource I have to record anything in a listenable quality. While all drum and percussion tracks will be created with the help of a computer, everything else will be performed myself on real instruments.
However, one of the aspects that was going to be difficult with adapting these works was balancing my own contributions to these works without drowning out the original intentions behind them. I am a straight white cisman. While my own insecurities are one thing, I do not have a similar identity to the writers who wrote the works I was adapting. So when writing the instrumentals to each piece, I reached out to different friends of mine whose identities were more in line with the original writers, as an attempt to avoid drowning out the voices of the original writers.

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released December 11, 2022

"SCUM" read by Robin Jacobson, words by Valerie Solanas
"Dead Girls" read by Ariel Wile, words by Kim Addonizio
"Confinement" read by April Weagle, words by Torrin A. Greathouse
"Gay Bar" read by Jonah Hodari, words by Danez Smith
"President" read by Jessamine Manchester, words by Zoe Leonard
"Spell" read by Kim Lewis, words by adrienne maree brown

All instrumentals written by Aidan Bonner

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