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Nature​:​Industry​:​Self

by R. short

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Louisville-based poet, sound artist, and advocate Rachel Short’s sharply observed debut, “Nature: Industry: Self” experiences and illuminates contemporary life from adjacent perspectives, parsing insights from their overlaps and making peace with disorientation without succumbing to it.
Here is a language rich in musical and textual dynamics, as routine gives way to dementia, medication to clarity, outrage to resignation and vulnerability. Processed loops and plaintive instrumentation (short plays Horn and piano as well as evocative electronics) give a sense of a reality barely contained, insistent and thrumming like a beehive at the threshold of perception, and threatening to break into the uneasy, dissociative space of the everyday.
Short is too honest a writer to end on an easy uplifting note favoring an unblinking, sober assessment of responsibility and the human need to find a place to, if not thrive, at least grow and allow for connection and empathy in an increasingly compartmentalized and impersonal, yet demanding and intrusive world. ~Niall Munnelly

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released July 30, 2016

written, performed by Rachel Short. Recorded live. Mastered by Adam Copelin. Cassette Release on Gubbey Records.

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R. short Louisville, Kentucky

R.Short is a musician, composer, and poet in Louisville, KY. They enjoy weaving academic poetry into chamber ensembles and has written art song featuring local poets. Short has composed for short film and visual art, as well as experimental sound art. As a horn player, they have performed with orchestras, rock bands, experimental musicians, performance artists, poets, and chamber groups. ... more

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