PRELUDE 2026: Devotion (The American Negro) | Music and Masturbation

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Experience this shared evening as part of Prelude 2026:

DEVOTION (The American Negro) by Nile Harris

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Nile Harris is a performer and director of live art. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing.

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MUSIC AND MASTURBATION

by Ethan Philbrick

An essay-song for solo cello and voice on aesthetics and autoeroticism.

Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, artist, and writer. He is currently curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project and a member of the curatorial collective for Offerings. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. In addition to participating in a variety of collaborative performance projects and being part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS, Philbrick is currently making interdisciplinary works that cluster around three different conceptual threads: 1. experiments in music and theory on the nature of instruments and the politics of instrumentality; 2. compositions for vocal collectivities that investigate the contested history of anticapitalist critique; and 3. collaborative research projects that inquire into alternative relationships between music and dance.