"I am rain, I wash away the day. I bellow thunder. I am part of this world. I travel without boundaries..." These words were gifted to the Breathe:Cambridge project while we were setup at Cambridge Open Studios' North Cambridge edition earlier today. Through our open venue for community voices we were able to capture a multi-hued spectrum of accents, languages and cadences from our community here in Cambridge. From Eriko the photographer who plays in a dub-metal band to a distressed post-dentist 9-year-old named Nyela and Cambridge's Poet Populist Toni B. there was no shortage of powerful, unique voices in Porter Square this afternoon. The latter voice was found at a COS poetry event at Porter Sq. Books, offering her words as well as those of Bob Marley's "Rastaman Vibration" to the rhythm of my beatbox which I had the pleasure of offering in a spontaneous collaboration. It echoed the open artistic comraderie of an earlier beatbox duet that happened after I caught a unique voice attempting to pass our booth without contributing his apparent skill. As I heard him manipulating his breath into a beat as he walked past I had to say something. "Would you like to contribute your voice?"
Stay tuned to hear all the voices! Hear some of our sounds @
http://soundcloud.com/breathe-soundpoetry "BREATHE:Cambridge" on display July - August 2010 @ CAC Gallery 343 Broadway Cambridge MA
-MJ
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