“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” — George Orwell. 1984
Although “Institutionalized” was never a hit in the charts, it was the first hardcore punk and thrash metal song to receive significant airplay on MTV and is considered to be one of the songs that defines both genres.[1]Tom Araya of the band Slayer appears in the video, along with actors Jack Nance and Mary Woronov.
With a background as art historian, Gea Brown approaches to the Djing by researching different genres of music in a continous mix between history and present. Collector of the music creations by Charlemagne Palestine, in her sets the drone music and the american minimalism of the 60’s get in dialogue with the sound of electronic and electroacoustic music of the last years. An eclectic approach which picks also from classical music, folktronica and tribalism with a recent interest for the vocal element coming from spoken word and sound poetry. Since 2010 Gea Brown has been part of the duo Alpin Folks with which she develops an audiovideo project, characterised by the combination of drone and techno music. She create sounds of performances for various artists, dancers and designers.