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Saint Joan not alo­ne (1983)

Johanna Went

High Performance Artists Doing Songs

Ti­tle of the com­pi­la­ti­on: High Performance - Artists Doing Songs
Artist: Johanna Went
Ti­tle: Saint Joan not alone (Track 14)
Publisher: Linda Frye Burnham, High Performance, Los Angeles
Da­te: 1983
Me­di­um: 2 re­cords 30 cm

 

The compilation High Performance - Artists Doing Songs, which includes Johanna Went's song Saint Joan not alone, appeared in the fall of 1983 as issue 23 of the quarterly art magazine High Performance Magazine, published in Los Angeles. The magazine presented performance, video, and sound art and attempted to link these arts to social, societal, and everyday issues, exploring mutual influences and interdependencies.

Went recorded the piece in July 1983 at Castle Media in Los Angeles, with musicians Greg Burk, Brock Wheaton and Mark Wheaton. The piece has the characteristics that appear in a great deal of Went's work: Improvisation, disharmony, onomatopoeic use of language, punk.

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