Partner//Emotive by Naomi Jackson

Partner// Emotive is about navigating femininity when traditional femininity isn’t your strong suit. It is about trying to force ties between sound and speech, and letting those ties grow organically in a digital space. It is about my lived experience of being a queer woman, and (unavoidably) about the lives of the women around me. An extended piece, it moves from comical to serious to angry to melancholy. It relies on accidents and on the work of women before me. It was simultaneously painful and relieving to make. It is the longest thing I have ever recorded. Some of it will only ever exist on these tapes. Despite being sound poetry, I am more concerned about the overall feeling that is evoked in the listener by the end, rather than the individual words themselves. Words are always paint, but sometimes they mean more - and, once someone else has heard those words, they will always mean something different.

Naomi Jackson is a musician and sound engineer based in South-East London, and a founder member of Omnii Collective (https://www.omniicollective.com/).

The Lumen Lake is an artist-run label for new and unusual music. Emerging from the primeval swamp of live nights of the same name at Lewisham Arthouse in SE London, and now based in South Ayrshire, the label celebrates DIY practice, alternative electronics, improvisation and other music that isn’t easily categorised.

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