Sunday April 18 * 8pm * online via ESS

ABSTRACT POETICS: A VOCAL ARTS SHOWCASE featuring
Allison Clendaniel + Ami Yamasaki + Anaïs Maviel + id m theft able + Sir E.U

Allison Clendaniel is an interdisciplinary artist in Baltimore, MD. Her work encompasses sound, classical & extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, technology, and theatre. A versatile performer and improviser, Allison has composed and played music for voice, synthesizer, piano, computer, cello, and theremin in both solo and collaborative environments. She currently focuses her artistic attention at the intersectionality between technology and acoustic instruments. She has studied voice and movement with legendary performer and composer, Meredith Monk at the House Foundation, clowning with Globus Hystericus, and has toured extensively through North America as a teacher and performing artist.
https://www.allisonisonline.com/

Ami Yamasaki creates performances and installations based on her voice and echolocation. She is exploring the relationship between sound, voice and body. Sound is a blank space of the body: but sound is a part of the body, directly vibrating the eardrum and skin. Through her artistic practice she presents a world of sound, acoustics, and silence. Since 2000 she has internationally presented performance and installation. Examples of this work include: Setouchi International Triennale “Insular Membrane”(2019), Japan Foundation Fellowship outcome “Ephemeral Knots” (2018), Japan Society NY “Sounds to Summon” (2016), Aomori Contemporary Art Center ”Exchange”(2013). She received an award at “Tokyo Experimental Exhibition vol.09”(2014) and grand prize at “The 4th Art Award of Sapporo 500 m Museum” (2016). In 2021 she will participate in “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE” at Padiglione d'ArteContemporanea, introducing performative contemporary Japanese art. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she co-founded the online performance platform “#leap2live,”providing many performances and workshops to a global audience. It was also performed for the New Normal Experiment in Tokyo 2021.
https://amingerz.wixsite.com/

Anaïs Maviel's work as a vocalist, percussionist, composer and community facilitator focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation, and creating utopian future. Involved at the crossroads of mediums, Anaïs has been an in-demand creative force for artists such as William Parker, Daria Faïn, Shelley Hirsh, César Alvarez, Steffani Jemison - to give a sense of an eclectic company. Anaïs is dedicated to substantial creations from solo to large ensembles, music direction of cross-disciplinary works, and to expanding the power of music as a healing & transformative act. Anaïs performs and teaches extensively in New York, throughout the Americas and Europe. Both solo albums hOULe & in the garden, out on Gold Bolus Recordings, received international acclaim. Lastly, Anaïs Maviel is developing her composition language, especially thanks to the support of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create commission with The Rhythm Method String Quartet and 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.
https://www.anaismaviel.com/

id m theft able performs within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance, et c. et c. et c. using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available...... He has given over a thousand performances across 4 continents, in 40 countries, 40 US states and at least 4 Canadian provinces in settings ranging from the scummiest of squats to the fanciest of festivals.
http://kraag.org
https://idmtheftable.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/idmtheftable/
https://www.facebook.com/idmtheftable/

Sir E.U: DC rapper presenting new work in the tradition of plunder phonics, vocals, audio collage, and performance meeting as one.
https://sireu.bandcamp.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/this-dc-rapper-just-performed-a-25-hour-concert-near-the-finish-things-got-surreal/2018/02/16/794cb48c-1298-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html