Testomania (2016)
for chorus and electronics (10 min.) View Score
written for Ekmeles with text by Göksu Kunak/Gucci Chunk
Influenced by Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Paul B. Preciado), Testomania refers to the high that a body experiences when exposed to testosterone during a process of sex-transition. Göksu Kunak/Gucci Chunk—a queer writer based in Berlin—contemplates on gender hacking and imagines a world beyond pre-conceived notions of gender.
Few materials are presented in this piece—our two most primal and earliest musical expressions—singing and beating—voices and drums—extreme horizontality combined with extreme verticality—sometimes masked with aggressive noise.
Text:
purely crafted
animal machine
blossom in myth and magic
times in utopian lands
thirty packets
testo drops
on open
luscious ginas
breasts breathe
and
squirt
not only milk
but pink
blithe hands move on skins
gardens of myth and misery
sighs echo
in bliss
roar in euphoria
__________
New York, USA
March 11th, 2016 | DiMenna Center