Apr 10, 2010. Dear – still, for the time being, I am not showing my work here but am instead singing a song every now and then. Have a look at my blog to see what is happening besides. You can also read my curriculum vitae, or come visit me at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Studio A11. If you are interested in my work, I am happy to send my portfolio as pdf to you. Have a nice day. Rebecca

The Singing a Song As Substitute For Portfolio Website

June 25, 2010, "Sonne statt Reagan" (Joseph Beuys, 1982)
"Joseph Beuys was critical of political systems influenced by the wealth of a few people. He hoped to be a catalyst for creating a new system in which power and decision-making would be in the hands of all people regardless of their economic status. In the 1980s he recorded a pop song called Sonne statt Reagan (Sun Instead of Rain). In German the word "regen" means rain, but it is spelled "reagan," a homophone for the U.S. president at the time. Creating a pop song increased the likelihood that the ideas embedded in the music would reach and inspire more people. (from artsconnected.org, see also for english translation)

April 10, 2010, "Slow Wind (Remix)" (R.Kelly feat. Sean Paul and Akon, 2007)
Akon's contribution to this somg presented some of my most favourite rimes in the history of sexist R and B, such as: "I can't help but to bother you, looking like my white BMW" or "she thinks we're all cassanovas, that's when I put her legs on my shoulder and just ride her like a Range Rover, like a dollar bill I had to unfold her".

Feb 23, 2010, "Wäre ich ein Buch zum lesen" (Daliah Lavi, 1973)
this key piece of conceptual audible art translates as "If I was a book to read": here, the female "I" compares herself with "a book" in the context of a romance ("... to read"). the piece's dramaturgy culminates in a climax in the third strophe: "will you understand what I need to say, what's only between the lines, what no sentence reveals? A book that laughs and cries with you, accompanies you through the day and through the night, dreaming and awake with you. The book you sometimes hate and love, we wrote it together, it will end with you."

Feb 18, 2010, "Die Gedanken sind frei" ("Thoughts are free") - german evergreen-protest-song since 1780, good against all kinds of political repression and censorship

Feb 2, 2010, "Drei Chinesen Mit Dem Kontrabass" (3 Chinese With A Contrabass, 4 vowels and 6 germanic Umlaute)

Oct 22, 2009, My Very First Mantra ("Leg dein Ohr auf die Schiene der Geschichte", Freundeskreis, 1997)

Oct 8, 2009, THE lalala in music history as low and high as I can get ("Loving You", Minnie Riperton, 1975)

Sept 27, 2009, "Party Machen Wir" (Volker Racho, 2009)