Planningtorock on Growth, Queer Identities and Writing | Red Bull Music Academy

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From Frank Ocean’s revelations to Janelle Monáe’s “PYNK” pants, the mainstream pop narrative has been noticeably queered in recent years.

Planningtorock discussed growing up through music and art, opening up a safe studio environment in Berlin and the commodification of queer identities in their lecture at RBMA Berlin 2018.
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For Jam Rostron, the multimedia artist and DIY provocateur who performs as Planningtorock, that spirit of subversion – in gender, sexuality and politics – has been the engine of their creativity for almost two decades. Raised in the North of England but a longtime resident of Berlin, Rostron writes unabashedly radical songs that question the binary boundaries placed on our bodies.

Whether restructuring their face with prosthetics or pitching their voice to discover their authentic self, Rostron’s music is an investigation into the possibility of “queering sonics:” what would non-heteronormative music even sound like? After the melodramatic pop of their debut album and the personal watershed of 2013’s alt-disco anthem “Patriarchy (Over & Out),” (not to mention writing an opera about Charles Darwin with the Knife) Rostron’s transgressive ambitions only grew bolder on their 2018 album, the emotionally honest Powerhouse.

TOPICS:
3:02 - Learning to write songs about gender
9:57 - Going to art school
21:28 - Pitching vocals to “find” their voice
23:57 - Opening a studio in Berlin with Olof Dreijer from The Knife
37:14 - The commodification of queer identities
43:29 - Writing their most personal record yet

MUSIC:
0:32 - Planningtorock – “Transome“
14:20 - Planningtorock – “The PTR Show”
32:47 - Planningtorock – “Let’s Talk About Gender Baby”

VIDEO:
16:37 - Planningtorock – “The Breaks”

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