From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1928 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, February 6 2017 Volume 16 : Number 1928 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Ana Silvera [Karen Hester ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 22:02:52 -0500 From: Karen Hester Subject: Ana Silvera From her website: In 2011, I was commissioned by the landmark arts venue Roundhouse, London to create a choral piece in conjunction with the Roundhouse Experimental Choir. This work became bOraclesb, a songcycle in seven parts. In 2012, the piece was performed in the Roundhouse main space to an audience of 2000 people with the Estonian Television Girlbs Choir as part of a co-headline concert with Imogen Heap. The sold-out show was performed the following night at Sage Gateshead. In the same year, Oracles was nominated for a British Composerbs Award. Based upon the traditional arc of a fairy tale, Oracles begins with a song of grief and darkness (bTears of Oak, Fist of Willow) and over the course of the piece, the pain is transfigured by love b a sort of take on the quest story for modern times! On a personal level, I wrote the piece as a response to the sudden loss of two of my closest family members; imagery from folk legends and myths (bSkeleton Songb, bCircle of Chalkb) helped me to make sense of these difficult experiences. In 2015, I returned to the Roundhouse Theatre Studio to make a live recording of the piece. The recording features myself as a soloist, a choir led by Josephine Stephenson as well as a stellar line up of musicians including Bill Laurance (Snarky Puppy), Jasper HC8iby (Phronesis) and Jacob Smedegaard (Fiction, Beth Jeans Houghton) as well as Simran Singh (violin), Anne Chaveau (cello) and Naomi Morris (percussion). This recording, suppored in part by PRSF, will be released in 2017, along with some videos of the performance shot by Paris-based filmmaker Mathieu Mastin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyZhMExTIkU ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1928 ****************************