SOUNDTRACK: NATALIE PRASS-“Short Court Style” NPR’S SOUTH X LULLABY (March 14, 2018).
I did not enjoy this Lullaby at all. Prass’ voice is very conventionally poppy and the synth sounds were really cheesy. I would without question turn this off it was on the radio.
Evidently the original has “a laid-back disco cool and bouncing bassline groove” but then Prass
shows up to her South X Lullaby session with keyboardist Jacob Ungerleider, slows down the tempo just a mood lighting dimmer and turns the song’s breezy funk into the soft murmurs of late-night devotion.
Still doesn’t make me like it.
This version of “Short Court Style” was filmed in an interactive art installation by Caitlin Pickall called FEAST, which is part of the SXSW Art Program and was created as part of the Laboratory Artist Residency program in Spokane, Wash. Prass and Ungerlieder sit at a dinner table set with plates and towers of wine glasses, onto which images and patterns are projected. The projections are triggered by the movements of guests at the table, so the experience changes every time someone sits down.
[READ: March 15, 2018] “No More Maybe”
This story looks at immigrants in the land of trump’s america. But it also looks at how in-laws can drive us crazy.
The narrator’s in-laws have come to visit them because she is pregnant.
Her mother-in-law has been very busy taking advantage of all that America has to offer (cheaply): blueberries, the clean air, the stars, and English-language classes (which are expensive in China).
She is puzzled by them being free: “America is a capitalist country…. What about so-called ‘invisible hand’s” (She learned about that phrase two days earlier). The woman is confident (she is a volleyball coach) and is not shy about expressing herself. (more…)
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