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Pascalle

About Me


Performance Poet? Page enacter? Sound creator? Letter sculptor? Space arranger? The translation between the words, the writing, the bringing in of sound, the movement, the MEANING. That is rad.
I also perform in Maiden Speech , a Poetry-Pop act, with my sister Almaryse, and WE perform with our SiSTER Ghostboy at ouTsideRs Brisbane , a club night that is a platform for musicians, poets, performance artists and everything in between. Get in touch with us to take part.
It wouldn't be uncommon for you to find me doing spoken word in plenty of dives around town. I sometimes perform with Ohad Rein aka Old Man River and this year my first publication, a chapbook of poetry called A Vast Laugh, with illustration and collaboration by the outstanding artist Joshua Norman, has just been released through Small Change Press . Make sure you get a copy.
There are accolades - I won the Slams at the Queensland Poetry Festival and Woodford Folk Festival - and that is what is known as 'good'. What I dig is that it means I get to do MORE poetry.
Like:
Queensland Poetry Festival
Random Acts of Poetry
Brisbane Writers Festival
Velvet Landmine
Riverbend Poetry
Poetry UNearthed
ouTsideRs
State Library Slam
Farrago Poetry (UK)
Y Tuesday Poetry(UK)
Poetry Cafe (UK)
My Poetry involves layers of sonic art. I like to record REAL sounds, I get a buzz from knowing I was there when it happened - so in the tracks you hear above, it was me LIGHTING the matches, TYPING the poem, PRINTING the page, making the PRICE CHECK. The rest is usually loops or samples I find and mix into my own recipe of sound.
Ant Aggs has helped me with recording some of the tracks - it's a swell process of going with the FLOW and seeing what we come up with.
I love the connection between music and poetry and experimenting with this fusion. Theatre, words, visual art, words, film, music, words, humour and honesty. Hot damn.
There are too many good things out there that inevitably turn up in my work - I see in my old age I will be the eccentric blue-rinsed pipe-smoking lady, carrying around an ipod and a microphone - I can't wait.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/27/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/maidenspeech
Band Members:
The Pilot Project by David Stavanger and Pascalle
Influences: Maiden Speech cover Leonard Cohen (with a hats off to Pat Benatar):
A shorty-short dedicated to Maya Deren's Meshes in the Afternoon
The Book Machine from my launch
Sounds Like:Check it out - my remix of Chromeo's rad song Tenderoni!!!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Philip Tagg Tagged

Ive just uploaded a new track called As If, Philip Tagg. Its not my regular spoken word poetry  and its fiiiiiive minutes long, for crying out loud  so I thought a blog may shed some light on i...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Seeing Field Commander Cohen

I was filled with the great fortune of seeing Leonard Cohen perform while he was visiting recently... it completely warrants a blog, a verification that I am no longer the same person... however there...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:16:00 GMT

The Fragile Bubble

The Fragile BubbleThis is a little snippet of my Woodford Folk Festival trails over December as part of David Stavangers brilliant Wordfood program at the Empire, incorporating the expertise of artis...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:56:00 GMT

Just who is this Joshua Norman?

 
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Poster Girl for Infidelity

There were a number of interviews and articles associated with the book and the launch, including this one in Time Off and Rave Magazine. But the most amusing must be this brief coverag...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:32:00 GMT

Launcharama...

A brief recount of the launch and lead up... Overwhelming gratitude that so many turned up - it’s always uncertain as to whether you will perform to a crowd or a couple. There are no small audie...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:49:00 GMT