Recordings
“This work evokes embers from a fire thought
long-quenched, flaming into brilliance.” – Ellen Walsh, MSW
Beauty Becomes Her - an audio recording
An audio recording honoring creation streaming from and through a feminine source, akin to a mother giving birth. To understand that the creative force continually creates, through us and through all of nature, evokes within us a sense of reverence. Conversely, our “ejaculative acts of ego” lead to the destruction of the earth, and in the end, our own annihilation. Read more …
Words and vocals: Cameron Altaras; Sounds, effects and mixing: Jeff Altaras
“… provocative poetry and vocals taking the listener on a journey exploring perceptions and realities forming our bias and world view. …longing tones that drift and suddenly pivot accentuating the lyrical journey.” - Terry Mutter, Seattle, WA
Bat Kol – an audio recording which explores the gendered blame game encoded in a 2,000 year religious history of noble words and ignoble actions and suggests one pay heed to the advice that “by their fruits you shall know them”
Words and vocals: Cameron Altaras; Sounds, effects and mixing: Jeff Altaras
“ … this immersive aural experience. … a multivocal and multivalent soundscape. Mere cacophony could have been the result, but listening experience is anything but that thanks to the artistic, historical, and religious ground the piece offers. …I have never heard anything remotely like this piece, and I was greatly moved by it. - Greg Salyer, Ph.D., Los Angeles, CA
Bat Kol - an audio recording
Bat Kol, a Hebrew term meaning "sound," "resonance," especially as it pertains to a heavenly or divine voice. Other sources claim it “means the reverberation or hum, caused by the motion of all things, which fills the whole world, and which accompanies the human voice and every other sound.” Another source explains it as “the sound of a voice issuing from heaven, whence the name ‘the daughter of the voice’.” This audio recording takes into account all of these aspects and begins with the voice of a “special being,” whose function it is, “to lead the song of the celestial beings in praise of the Most High around His [sic] throne.” Other sources refer to “a kind of Bat Ḳol which, in view of its aims, falls into the category of omens.”
And indeed, this audio recording feels like an omen.
And so it began.
And so it continues…
In brief:
Adam blamed her [Eve]
And Paul shamed her. Read more…
Thoughts of Existence (Parts 1&2)
Existential questioning probing the meaning of everything and seeking an elusive peace of mind. Questions, posed over and over, for which no satisfactory answers can be found. Read more…
Words and Vocals: Cameron Altaras [Recording under revision]
“Haunting reflections of being pulled deep underwater by cleaving one’s identity to thoughts, to thinking. Adrift in the labyrinth of thinking, as though thinking has the key to the puzzle.” — Ellen Walsh, MSW
Voice of the Residue
A searing indictment of patriarchal wounding of women, that is passed generation to generation. Each life offers moments of reckoning and paths to break free. Read more…
Words and Vocals: Cameron Altaras; Sounds and effects: Jeff Altaras; Video: Joseph Seuferling
“Thank you, Cameron Altaras, for the courage it took to bring this itch, this very feminine itch, this generational wound to life in your own voice. Brilliant and exceedingly powerful.”” — Helen R. Folsom, Therapist
Live Engagements
Activating Athena
Poem written and performed by Cameron Altaras, Toronto Storytellers online event. Her Voice Returns: Women Telling Stories of the Goddess. March 13, 2021.
Event description: There was a time when the Goddess was not hidden. What if she stepped out of the shadows to tell her story through the words of modern women? What if Her voice returned?
Artemis Patiently Waits
Poem written and performed by Cameron Altaras, Toronto Storytellers online event, Her Voice Returns: Stories of Forgotten Women. September 25, 2021.
Event description: When we look at history, it seems like almost all the important or exciting things were done by men. What were the women busy doing all that time? Were they only at home having babies and keeping house? Not always! Women have done some amazing things too, but we often don't remember them. Women's accomplishments have gotten overlooked, marginalized or even stolen and attributed to men.
The Grooming Process: Sex with a pastor is never an affair
Speech given at the 2015 Annual Conference of SNAP (Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests), August 2015, Arlington, VA, USA.