In one of the darkest days of the year, we invite you to close your eyes and open your ears in an evening of immersive sonic experience with the Long Tone Choir and Ritual 1: thicket ensemble.
The Long Tone Choir will steep you in a variety of mesmerizing vocal soundscapes, some of which will include audience participation. Ritual 1: thicket ensemble will bathe you in water-inspired sound from the inner ear out.
The Long Tone Choir, which celebrates its two-year anniversary with this performance, is a movement in several variations, based on the cornerstones of listening, breathing, mindfulness, and a biotic and responsive experience of time. The variations: 1, a loose community of listeners and sounders; 2, a growing body of meditation-compositions; 3, a path of exploration. The Long Tone Choir is gently facilitated by Rae Diamond.
RITUAL 1: thicket ensemble is Mateo Lugo and
Suki O'Kane. They convened with Katherine McDonald and Tim Kim for the first time in early 2015 to accompany the movement performance of Mari Osanai with Dana Iova-Koga and Shinichi Iova-Koga (inkBoat). Combining voice and acoustic strings with processed water and found objects through empathic listening, they later joined inkBoat’s 95 RITUALS (for Anna Halprin): the artistic collective that developed and performed a monumental set of works informed by Anna through July of this year.
“Ritual is another word that needs a new definition… Ritual, as I use the term, refers to an artistic process by which people gather and unify themselves in order to confront the challenges of their existence.” (Anna Halprin)
Cost: $10 - $15 sliding