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URL:https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/events/alkemie-presents-a-worthy-mir
 ror-digital-release-screening-party/
SUMMARY:Alkemie presents "A Worthy Mirror" - digital release + screening pa
 rty
DESCRIPTION:A restless collective of medieval experimentalists\, the Flatbu
 sh-based band Alkemie recently gained recognition beyond Brooklyn with the
 ir soundtrack for the video game Pentiment (directed by Obsidian studios a
 nd published by Xbox) and their albums a fine companion and Love to My Lik
 ing. Locally and nationally\, they have been presented by the Amherst Earl
 y Music Festival\, Arizona Early Music Society\, Brooklyn Public Library\,
  Cambridge Society for Early Music\, the Berkeley Early Music Festival\, F
 ive Boroughs Music Festival\, Johns Hopkins Program in Arts\, Humanities &
 amp\; Health\, Music Before 1800\, and the European Early Music Network vi
 rtual Early Music Day festival.\n\nA WORTHY MIRROR represents a time-trave
 ling dialogue with the 12th-century trobairitz–the feminine counterpart 
 of the poet-composers known as troubadours. Together with Amanda Gookin (o
 f Forward Music Project)\, we commissioned eleven female and non-binary co
 mposers to respond to and converse with the 36 extant trobairitz texts (of
  which we only have music for one). This body of lyric poetry represents a
  large group of historically female and anonymous femme voices in the lite
 rary tradition. Witty\, ironic\, heartbreaking\, and erotic—these texts 
 present a mirror to reflect upon what feels foreign about the past and wha
 t feels familiar\, what is the role of gender and self in relationships\, 
 and how do we make space for the multiplicities of identity\, both in the 
 12th century and today.\n\nIn collaboration with video artist Charles Muel
 ler\, we created videos for each composition that interpolate footage imag
 ined and captured by Alkemie in our surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods\, j
 uxtaposing whimsical and arresting symbolic imagery with the Occitan poetr
 y + studio recording that forms the foundation of this project. Join us in
  NYC or online to view and celebrate the culmination of this project!\n\nW
 ith Tracy Cowart (voice\, harps)\, Amanda Gookin (cello) Ben Matus (voice\
 , bagpipes\, recorders)\, David McCormick (vielle)\, Sian Ricketts (voice\
 , douçaines\, recorders)\, Niccolo Seligmann (vielles\, scheitholt\, psal
 tery)\, and Elisa Sutherland (voice).\n\nThis digital concert premiere wil
 l be screened on November 7 at 7:00 p.m. in Ridgewood\, NY. The concert wi
 ll be available to view online through November 30. To reserve tickets and
  for more information\, please visit alkemie.org/events. 
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CATEGORIES:Concerts,Podcast/Video Premiere
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