When I was a teenager I worked on giving myself a new name since I grew to hate just Jennifer. I kicked around a few names, JenniFreak, JenniF*** and felt that JenniferOcious fit best. I plan to legally change my real name to Jennifer Lee-Oakly Ocious.

As of now, no. I did do a show for NAMI Expressive Arts Live and that went well, but it is difficult for me to replicate the sounds made in my music live. I don't have the money to supply the things I'd need to recreate the music in any form. But I would love for one day to have band members other than myself who can bring this vision to life and hopefully play live some day.

This internet thingy has improved AND ruined the music industry, but in recent times I feel that it mostly improved it. Now it's easier to find new artists, test out new music genres before having to dive into a single artist's work. I don't mind being paid for my craft, and don't blame musicians today for wanting that buck, but I think there is a limit to how much you can control the use of your work that's out of your hands and the internet has helped those who want to profit from sharing music illegally. Should it be legal to take someone's music? I honestly don't know. But, being able to pick a song off this album and one or two from another by the same artist and leave behind the ones they don't like DOES break down the whole experience of listening to an album beginning to end that I was familiar with as a teenager. The result is the fair-weather fan. I can't go into a store and bring a box of chocolates to the counter and say, I only want the caramel and marshmallow filled chocolates. But I CAN go to the candy shop and get a quarter pound bag of caramel chocolates and a half pound bag of marshmallow filled chocolates. Who's to say one method is wrong and the other is right? The future, that's who. Cuz we are living in a digital world and I am a digital girl.

YES

New York city really does it for me. The speediness allows me to think and to feel so anonymous while standing in a crowd of 50 people all ignoring eachother and talking on their cell phones. I can make the loudest of body noises and nobody will know just WHO did it.

Guitar, piano, keyboard, tambourine, harmonica, drums, slide whistle, random objects that make interesting noises, the computer, Audacity, vocal chords, sound bytes

I'm hoping that someone will hear my music and tell me where to find others who make music like mine. I'd like to collaborate with people. I often use my music in my videos that I put up on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/JenniferOcious79