Performances by: Suzanne Langille with Loren Connors, Charlie Morrow, Kiera Mulhern, Azikiwe Mohammed, Joan La Barbara, and an audio installation by Nour Mobarak.

Los Angeles-based composer and Recital record label founder Sean McCann collaborates with Artists Space on a two-day festival of new sound poetry that brings together a flourishing generation of artists and musicians across a wide spectrum of experimental sound alongside legendary historical practitioners. Performers are invited to explore the freedom and limitations of voice and speech phonetics, with a particular focus on both acoustic and electronic sound worlds that may be void of grammar and comprehensible meaning. This festival aims in part to rekindle the lost lineage of group-oriented sound poetry performance and the associated live events that first emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s, reviving this tradition by offering a modest contemporary contribution to the legacy that it represents. To this end, the festival will be recorded and documented in full, to become the material for a future edition of the Recital. Over the past decade, Recital has released an astounding range of new and historic music and sonic art, spanning debut albums by emerging composers and performers, a dedicated series of releases of new and out-of-print sound poetry, and highly experimental and adventurous audio work by composers and multimedia artists.

Over two evenings (November 10 & 11), Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival includes performances by Thomas Buckner, Asha Sheshadri, Julie Patton, Mike Pollard & Eric Schmid, Sydney Spann, Suzanne Langille with Loren Connors, Charlie Morrow, Kiera Mulhern, Azikiwe Mohammed, Joan La Barbara, and an audio installation by Nour Mobarak.

For information about Artists Space’s accessibility or accommodations for this event, please visit this page.

This performance at Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Lonti Ebers, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.

Time: 7:00 PM EST

Free!

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