Jenny Hval Interview: A Face Split Open
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"For me there is a big connection between singing and sexuality, and there's also a connection in my lyrics between the mouth and the sexual organ." Musician Jenny Hval writes experimental music, dealing with gender and sexuality.
Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval (b.1980) grew up in Oslo, and moved to Melbourne, Australia to study creative writing and performance. She has played in numerous groups, and released several albums under different names collaborating with various people. For 2013's Innocence is Kinky Jenny Hval worked with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish.
In this interview Jenny Hval talks about how singing is connected to crying: "There are certain voices which make my body sing, make me feel touched, and creates a little cry in the body." And about how singing has to do with sacrifice, giving yourself, cutting into yourself, and being open. The voice contains an otherness, while the music contains sincerity, Hval explains. She also talks about how the 2011 attacks in Utøya, Norway affected her music, and about how one of her great fears has been being a replica, a stereotype.
Jenny Hval also talks of how she felt a certain suspiciousness towards things that were considered female, such as singing, but has experimented more and more with the voice over the years. "Maybe its time for something really dangerous -- making something that sounds like pop." She laughs.
Watch the beautiful and provocative music video 'Innocence Is Kinky' by Jenny Hval here: • Jenny Hval - "Innocenc...
Jenny Hval was interviewed by Marie Skibsted Mogensen at Louisiana Literature 2013
Edited By Kamilla Bruus.
Produced by Christian Lund.
Copyright Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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Viscera and Innocence is kinky are reflecting a lot this connection between crying and singing. It was never obvious to me, but in my mind when I flew in her music scenarios I could feel throat crying. Now I understand what she meant with these projects. She totally succeeded in that: creating a split open in the listener.
I like it. I was looking at the NPR list of top 200 songs from the 21 st century and was disappointed whenever there was a generic pop princess with a song I could never distinguish from any other pop (ie Taylor Swift /Demi Lovato) and pleasantly surprised when I found artists like Jenny Hval. They remind me of artists from the 90s (in the way that so many females were paving their own paths and experimenting with sound and emotion (Fiona Apple, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Lauren Hill, Missy Elliot, Tracey Chapman). They wore what they wanted, looked how they wanted, sounded how they wanted. and wrote what they wanted.
2:30 where i can find the full performance?
I get the clicking sounds in my jaw too sometimes
Hval is like dark side Bjork or some shit
@angelisbethania4457
2 жыл бұрын
Better than Bjork. Jenny doesn't have bad albums, Bjork does
@martinlang181
2 жыл бұрын
@@angelisbethania4457 Strong words sister, but I respect your opinion
@angelisbethania4457
2 жыл бұрын
@@martinlang181 I'm a Bjork fan too, but not her latest works. Jenny and Anja Garbarek took her place for long ago now
song at 8.50??
what is the name of the track she starts to sing at 8.40?
@illystor
9 жыл бұрын
She's repeating "So they could have" over and over then ending "So they could have a conversation" which is a line from the opening of Blood Flight off Viscera. The track doesn't sound anything like what is in the video, though. I believe it may be just an experimentation she has tried in a few live sessions and not a track available for purchase anywhere, I'm afraid!
@nagihangot6133
4 жыл бұрын
Hipster self-absorption.
2:28 this version sounds better than the original
@coldvoid
4 жыл бұрын
No
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