Reclaiming What We've Lost
with Anne Hege
SATURDAY, July 31, 2 to 5 p.m.
Suggested $12 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Limit: 12
Sign up with angel@earthangelart.comReclaiming what is Lost is a workshop dedicated to the exploration of ways
we can reclaim people or places we have lost, and realize we still need to
hold a place for in our lives. MR Daniel and Anne Hege will guide the
workshop participants through a series of movement and vocal exercises
that will become the building blocks for a ritual we will create together.
All participants are invited to bring a sonic memory of a loved one or
place they would like to reclaim. This could be an audio recording, an
object that makes sound, or a spoken memory. Creating a type of sonic
altar, we will honor our collective memories through guided movement and
singing, improvisation and some technological surprises. The three-hour
workshop will culminate in an enactment of our ritual and a reception to
follow. There are no prerequisites for this workshop and all are welcome.
Bios
MR Daniel is an interdisciplinary composer/artist working in sound,
performance, and installation. Her work culls the terrain of memory, often
realized as sound environments employing vocal folk idioms, and
reconfigurations of African American spirituals through a range of analog
and digital manipulations of voice, musical instrumentation, video, text,
and found sound. Previously, she received a doctorate in History of
Consciousness from University of California at Santa Cruz. Her art has
been performed or exhibited in various locales, including The Tank (New
York), The Lab, WAM (San Francisco), Soap Factory (Minnesota), SPACES
(Cleveland), Around the Coyote (Chicago), EMP Pop! Conference (Seattle),
and broadcast on Greek National Radio. A VONA Fellow, she studied creative
writing with Junot Díaz, Marci Blackman, and Julius Lester. MR has lived
in Illinois, Oregon, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California.
Currently, MR is completing her doctorate in music composition
at Princeton University.
Born in Oakland, CA, Anne Hege began her musical studies singing with the
Piedmont Children’s Choir and the Oakland Youth Chorus. Formative projects
with innovators such as Keith Terry and Linda Tillery inspired her
multimedia leanings in the mid 90’s. Hege received her BA from Wesleyan
University and MA in music composition from Mills College where she worked
with Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, Alvin Curran and Fred Frith. Hege has
composed works for film, installation art, dance and concert settings. She
performs original works in her duos, New Prosthetics and Sidecar, as well
as in the vocal trio, Celestial Mechanics. She is currently working on her
dissertation in music composition at Princeton University. Her latest
compositions lie somewhere between ritual, music, and theater with some
homemade instruments thrown in for good measure.
The image below is from a performance piece that will give structure to this workshop.
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