Performing Arts Essay: Report on Charmaine Lee's performance and talk
Write a report on Charmaine Lee's performance and talk.
Describe her practice. How does she use her voice as an artistic medium?
Consult the first 9 of Meredith Monk's Notes on the Voice, which you will find on the penultimate page of the score of her work, Our Lady of Late, which I assigned last week.
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The voice as a tool for discovering, activating, remembering, uncovering, demonstrating primordial/pre-logical consciousness.
The voice as a means of becoming, portraying, embodying, incarnating another spirit.
The dancing voice. the voice as flexible as the spine.
The voice as a direct line to the emotions. The full spectrum of emotion. Feelings that we have no words for.
The landscape.
The body of the voice/the voice of the body.
The voice as a manifestation of the self, persona or personae.
Working with a companion (the accompanying instrument: organ, piano, glass, etc.): repeated patterns or drone creating a carpet, a tapestry of sound for the voice to run on, fly over, slide down, cling to, weave through.
The voice as language.
Does Charmaine's practice embody any of these principles for you? Choose one and explain.
Charmaine Lee is a decorated performer who exhibits outstanding skills. She has a rich voice and exceptional music-making skills. Through her performances, we can perceive that she is funny, lyrical, brutal in his approach. She has adopted personal vocal techniques, with an augmented and amplified feedback system with various features. Through her approach to music, she is able to redefine and reclaim a space of what it means to become a vocalist and musician. She can improvise anything depending on her taste. Lee is an established improviser who uses her voice in ways that challenge her own techniques. She is always aiming to attach human emotions in the way she expresses things. In this regard, her voice is an artistic medium that can be use...