Artwork | Lili Maya

In the Sky I Am Walking, excerpts

2020 — live-stream concert / maya + rouvelle collaboration.

Below are five excerpts from our live-stream project with Ekmeles that included Karlheinz Stockhausen’s In the Sky I Am Walking (1972) and Raven Chacon’s Asdzaa Nádleehé & Yoolgai Asdzaa (2016). The full performance and additional information/writing about the project can be found here.

Performed by
Charlotte Mundy, Soprano
Elisa Sutherland, Mezzo Soprano

Charles Mueller, Audio Engineer

We created visual art/video/titling/staging elements for this special event, streamed live from the singers’ home in Brooklyn, NY.

LOVE SONG (Nootka)
No matter how hard I try
to forget you,
you always
come back to my mind,
and when you hear me singing you may know
I am weeping for you.

PLAINT AGAINST THE FOG (Nootka)
Don’t you ever,
You up in the sky,
Don’t you ever get tired
Of having the clouds between you and us?

PERUVIAN DANCE SONG (Ayacucho)
Wake up, woman,
Rise up, woman,
In the middle of the street,
A dog howls.
May the death arrive
May the dance arrive
Comes the dance
You must dance,
Comes the death
You can’t help it!
Ah! what a chill,
Ah! what a wind….

SONG OF A MAN WHO RECEIVED A VISION (Teton Sioux)
Friends, behold!
Sacred I have been made.
Friends, behold!
In a sacred manner
I have been influenced
At the gathering of the clouds.
Sacred I have been made,
Friends, behold!
Sacred I have been made.

Raven Chacon’s Asdzaa Nádleehé & Yoolgai Asdzaa (2016).

in the field

2020 — dimensions variable — digital print [original work / assemblage]

excerpts / Monteverdi’s Vespers performance

2020 — visual art for performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers — a maya + rouvelle collaboration.

Our studio created the visual art for for the March 1, 2020 performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers at Shriver Hall in Baltimore. The performers included the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Baltimore Baroque Band, and Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, all conducted by Blake Clark.

Our video project included entirely original footage shot in Italy, Spain, and the US. Some of the imagery is based on, and includes excerpts from works by Fra Angelico, Andrei Rublev, Jan Van Eyck, Aert van der Neer, Mosaics from the Basilica di San Marco, Venice, and The Osservanza Master.

The complete videos we made for each movement with the Vespers conducted by John Eliot Gardner, as well as some writing on the project are here. Still images from the concert are here.

gravitating

lili maya - gravitating

2019 — dimensions variable — digital print [original work / assemblage with leaves, paper, electronics]

standing wave

lili maya - standing wave

2018 — dimensions variable — digital print [original work / acrylic and ink on paper]