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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