The People's Microphony Camerata

The People’s Microphony Camerata (PMC) was an experimental choir exploring the People’s Microphone (Mic) and ideas of radical receptivity through sound, voice, and the body.

The People’s Microphony Camerata (PMC) choir, active in 2012, expored the emergent phenomena of the People’s Microphone (Mic), a technology used in resistance movements worldwide including the Occupy Wall Street movement. Through ideas and practices of the People’s Mic, the PMC expressed interrelated desires of collective and individual voices to speak and be heard, to hear one's own sounds sung back through different mouths, and to incorporate other voices and sounds into and through one's own body.

The PMC was founded in the spring of 2012 by Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper who were investigating ideas of radical receptivity through sound, voice, and the body, and researching the groundbreaking deep listening techniques of Pauline Oliveros.

PMC members included: Alanna Simone, Allison Johnson, Andrea Sáenz, Andrew Choate, Annette Weisser, Becca Wilson, Cynthia Paige Aaron, Elana Mann, Emily Mast, Jen Hofer, Juliana Snapper, Julie Tolentino, Karen Atkinson, Kimberly Kim, Marjan Vayghan, Michele Jaquis, Paul Carpenter, Rachel Finkelstein, Sascha Goldhor, and Vivian Bang.

PMC performance at Chalkupy protest, DTLA
PMC performance at the Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
People's Microphony Songbook, published in 2012