Description
2024, 12″ LP, Stanza Libretto.
shallow blues:
As migrants enter entirely unfamiliar chapters in their lives, I remember a great number of vulnerabilities: identity confusion, financial strife, loss and grief, unchecked domestic violence, rootlessness, language barriers, and more.
My poetry advocates for empowerment, authenticity, awareness, and self reflection.
I narrate the personal conflict within inner city generations of the social middle ground. Searching for a sense of control, for healthy agency, confronting landlords about rising rents, rejecting how friends and families are being torn apart, how communities are alienated into cocoons on the move away from the more or less affluent other. In a struggle to survive, wages will not match the financial demands of a gentrified playing field, a push into suburbs pulls apart the existing gap between our personal and professional lives.
A gaming culture term “in real life (irl)” gains momentum within the criminal justice context. I focus on how incredibly challenging it is to overcome crises without a provider system of sufficient multicultural and social justice competencies.
Yet, the effort to learn from our mistakes, to make healthy choices, to set realistic goals will set the tone for us to achieve meaningful success and to fulfill our dreams. – SB
susanne brokesch bio:
I was born in Vienna, Austria, became an electronic musician and writer and moved to New York, where I am still working. I released three cds (sharing the sunhat, so easy, hard to practice, and emerald stars) and wrote the soundtrack for the gangart – curated “Transmodernity” opening exhibition of the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC.
(gangart is German for pace.)
I was awarded the Austrian SKE Jahresstipendium scholarship in 2003 for pop- and improvising composers.
I compose music for art shows, radio plays, movies and documentaries. I write poems, prose, research papers and articles.