Welcome to Penny Drops Episode 9!

Penny Drops is free to submit to, and free to listen to. The podcast aims to give curious, emerging and established artists a place to share and experiment with their sound art, music or spoken word.

The next episode will be the last, and we invite contributors to submit works on the theme of: Rebirth.

This could be the rebirth of an idea, a thought, a person. Or, you could use the word to create something new entirely. It’s open ended, so interpret it how you like.

All submissions should be sent in a .mp3 or .wav format to our email address: [email protected]

Cover art by Jake Russell.

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In this episode, we (Will and Eva) discuss the article “Can Makeup Be an Anti-Surveillance tool”, authored by Lauren Valenti, in keeping with the theme: ‘Observation: invisibility and visibility’. We discuss everything from Drag make-up to deepfakes, and the racism perpetuated by surveillance technologies.

Here are our fantastic contributors:

Dylan Woodall - ‘Sightseeing’

Instagram: @deedoubleyoo_

Stray Mac & Lloydfears - ‘Rufus’

Instagram: @lloyd_lostfutur3

@f3mal3_gaze

Guy Fixen - ‘Tobble Preara’

http://www.guyfixsen.com

https://twitter.com/GuyFixsen

https://www.facebook.com/guy.fixsen

https://www.instagram.com/guywilliamfixsen/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guyfixsen/

Rust Blooms - ‘Grace’

Bandcamp: https://rustblooms.bandcamp.com/album/celeste

Website: https://rustblooms.com

Instagram: @rust_blooms

The accompanying video is found here https://youtu.be/w9zsdgod4mo

*AD BREAK* Rory Spencer (our CEO) makes art. Ask him and you can buy his stuff.

Dan Potts - ‘Dark and True’

Twitter: @danpotts78

Instagram: @danpotts78.

Website: www.danpotts.co.uk

Penny Drops is a Snitch publication. It is written, recorded and produced by Will Gopal and Eva Gerretsen.

Articles mentioned:

https://www.vogue.com/article/anti-surveillance-makeup-cv-dazzle-protest

https://cvdazzle.com/

https://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/

https://medium.com/an-injustice/your-makeup-isnt-feminist-or-anti-feminist-c50ab5d8c1d7

https://www.elle.com/uk/beauty/a35212893/drag-race-power-of-makeup/

https://truthout.org/articles/the-surveillance-of-blackness-from-the-slave-trade-to-the-police/

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-is-face-recognition-surveillance-technology-racist/