Performance

Live Mellifera in the Studio

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Live Mellifera presents a collaborative performance by multimedia visual artist Claire Zakiewicz (London/New York) and some of London’s most exciting improvisational musicians: Rachel Musson…

Boudicca’s Daughters

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Claire Zakiewicz performing painting, 2023, London (photographer Chris Freeman) From August 30 – September 3, 2023 Zakiewicz will stage a compelling re-imagining of the story…

∞ Snow Raven ∞

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An almost confounding combination of traditional shamanic and high-tech activity by Sofy Yuditskaya Snow Raven is a performer from the Republic of Sakha, now…

Shamanic Slow-quin with the New Nature

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It is said that Guqin players can summon spirits, predict the future, and convert the energies of Yin and Yang to their needs, and that the origins of Guquin playing come from Wushi or shaman. From 1644 until 1912 the Quin Emperors had an official shamanic shrine at the capital in Beijing and consulted professional shaman, usually women, in the forbidden city as part of their ruling duties.

Imagining the Universe with Hands and Heart

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Cecilia Wu’s piece entitled “Embodied Sonic Meditation: Resonance of the Heart” captures hand gestures and their fluid changes making mudras via leap motion and machine learning, triggering associated musical phrases and gestures as well as video of the Buddhabrot fractal deformations processed by audio filters also triggered by the mudras.