Album Review: Vesper Sparrow by JJJJJerome Ellis

"The stutter […] can be a musical instrument," states Caribbean-American musician and academic JJJJJerome Ellis at the start of his latest record. It's more than a declaration, it's a guiding principle that shapes his practice. With Vesper Sparrow, Ellis expands his study into the intersections of Blackness, music, and disabled speech by using granular synthesis (a technique that deconstructs and rearticulates sound) to highlight the unintentional beauty of speech disfluency.

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