Tag: Maya + Rouvelle

A conversation about End Words

A conversation with Abraham Burickson, Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, about End Words, a Cinematic 360/Ambisonic production of Christopher Trapani’s work, performed by Ekmeles and featuring poetry by Ciara Shuttleworth, Anis Mojgani, and John Ashbery.

Participants:
Christopher Trapani, Composer
Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone and Ekmeles Artistic Director
Ciara Shuttleworth, Poet
Lili Maya + James Rouvelle, Visual Artists

End Words is now live

2021 — Maya + Rouvelle collaboration.

Our Cinematic 360 production of Christopher Trapani’s End Words, recorded by Ekmeles and re-mastered by Christopher for this production is now available through Vimeo’s on-demand.

The project’s on-demand page is here.

Music : Christopher Trapani
Performers : Ekmeles
Visual Art : Maya + Rouvelle
Poetry : Anis Mojgani, They Raised Violins (movement I)
Ciara Shuttleworth, Sestina (movement II)
John Ashbery, The Painter (movement III)

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).

à la vitesse de ton souffle

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2013 – a maya + rouvelle collaboration / more information + video documentation @ maya + rouvelle and vimeo

à la vitesse de ton souffle was influenced by our time walking in and around Paris, La Générale/AtelierPier (residency/gallery) and Versailles – it is an installation in the form of a sequence of compositions and spaces made of sound, light, objects, code and movement, activated by visitors walking through the gallery at the speed of their own breathing.