Voice ++ 2010
Program, P.2109
- Identifier
- P.2109
- Type
- Music performances
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- May 7 – 14, 2010
- Description
- Open Space’s festival, Voice ++ 2010, highlights the voice as a dynamic and transgressive instrument. Voice ++ surveys vocal ensembles, solo performance, a complaints choir and vocal workshops. Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m. Stitch: An urbanvessel Production The interdisciplinary collective urbanvessel will perform the acclaimed one-act a cappella opera, Stitch, composed for three women and three sewing machines. Anchored in the sounds and rhythms of sewing, Stitch uncovers the emotional layers of the relationship between women and machine, fusing the mechanical and the lyrical world. Stitch features the talents of vocalists Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callaghan and Neema Bickersteth with music by Juliet Palmer and text by Anna Chatterton. Friday, May 7 at 7 p.m. Sing and Sew Workshop with urbanvessel This collaborative workshop will dig inside the sounds and language of the sweatshop. Writer Anna Chatterton, composer Juliet Palmer and singer Christine Duncan will guide group improvisations exploring the vocabulary of sewing, weaving togethe