Fe-Mail's Performance Analysis: All Men Are Pigs

The performance by Fe-Mail entitled song lines was an improvisation of trumpet, voice and electronics performed at Mills College. This group has two collaborative album releases in the year of 2006, when this performance took place, entitled Northern Stains and Blixer-Toad. These two albums fall in the genre categories of noise, experimental, and electronica which provides insight on their stylistic preferences at the time.
Mills College is a woman’s liberal art school that only accepts females for bachelor’s degrees. Fe-Mail as a group has strong ties to feminism with previous releases such as, “All Men are Pigs”. This performance shows no sense of feminism directly, however it is pushing the boundaries between live acoustic sounds and recorded
Electronics used for processing add new tones to the horn via means of distortion and live sampling. These electronic also provide unnatural prolongations to voice sounds. Another key to Fe-Mail’s signature sound in this piece is the use of field recording captured prior to the performance such as the voice sample played from 2m41s and 2m50s.
Using symmetry as a basis for identifying form, we see that from the beginning of the piece until 9m28s is one section and a similar macro-dynamic structure repeats for the latter half. The piece has a duration of eighteen minutes and fifteen seconds divided into two major sections for sake of simplification for this
Minute ‘5”15 seconds a second voice comes in with a higher pitch, and the first voice slowly begins to fade out meanwhile the pitch of the second voice keeps rising until it sustains and then it is morphed into the machinery-like sound which. It is worth mentioning as it shows live sampling and processing in effect along with the relationship between