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Contrassexual Toccata (for two dildos and electric guitar)

by Berlau

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Contrassexual Toccata part I 13:25
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Contrassexual Toccata part II 07:09
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Contrassexual Toccata part III 05:31
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Contrassexual Toccata is a piece for two dildos and electric guitar, divided in three parts, and aims to deconstruct the phallocentric connotation of the electric guitar, while questioning sex and gender binarism, following the notion of contrassexuality proposed by Paul B. Preciado.

In the universe of pop music the electric guitar has long been seen as an object connected to the promotion of masculinity. The iconic use of the instrument by Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards or Pete Townshend, among many others, immediately comes to mind. The shape of the instrument and the way it is characteristically placed next to the musician’s body explain, in a way, that connection. On the other hand, certain developments of its sonic range and the central place it historically occupied in an aesthetic deeply influenced by sexism, heteronormativity and misogyny also contributed to that connotation.

As Preciado puts it, contrassexuality is “the end of Nature as an order which legitimates the subjection of some bodies by others”. In that sense, changing the relation of the musician’s body with the electric guitar, as well as using the dildos to play it, with all the sonic unpredictability it implies, take the instrument to a field of autonomy that symbolically rejects that subjection and the biopolitical apparatus of sex and gender.

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released November 8, 2019

Recorded and produced by Fernando Ramalho, in Barreiro, between July and November 2019.

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Berlau Lisbon, Portugal

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