Join us for workshop #2 at PWNW featuring new and in-process works by Helen Spencer-Wallace, Long Drive Theatre and Thick in the Throat Honey.
Saturday September 28
Doors at 7 | Performance at 7:30pm
Performance Works NW | 4625 SE 67th, Portland
$10-15 sliding scale
workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. workshop supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even “songs”. it is an informal showing, a moment to work through new ideas, or old ideas in a new way.
curated by stephanie lavon trotter and presented by PWNW, the space supports acoustic and electronic works, as well as work that includes projection, lighting and movement.
Helen Spencer-Wallace is an electroacoustic vocalist, digital/analog installation artist, Music & Sonic Arts and Creative Coding educator, and Contemporary Alexander Technique teacher based in Portland, Oregon. Helen’s sonic art messes with explicit deception, disappearance and reappearance in plain sight, expressions of feminine performance, and simultaneous apparition as solo singer and digital choir. Her musical performances center on extended vocal technique folded with custom synthesizers, nonlinear song manipulation, and techniques of presence in movement. She regularly incorporates live EEG readings from her own brain and other sensors worn on and performed with her body to both free and limit her performance of agency. https://www.helenspencer-wallace.com/
Long Drive Theatre is a performance group led by Kaitlyn Petrik (director, text) alongside Richie Greene (music). Their first work, Six Monologues, premiered in 2021. Since then they have brought experimental performances to bars, bookstores, backyards, and other traditional and non-traditional venues. Happy’s Hour is a new in-progress work performed by Molly Porterfield, Dehlia Ackley, Sam Klapper, Kate Kilbourne, Richie Greene and Kaitlyn Petrik. @longdrivetheatre @katalun @richiegreene
Portland, Oregon-based performance duo Thick In The Throat Honey (Claudia Saleeby Savage, spoken word and movement, and John C. Savage, composer and woodwinds) are known for their unique melding of the disparate and the unexpected in each performance. Often site-specific, their performances have been presented in old-growth forests, gentrifying high-rises surrounded by urban blight, jazz clubs, punk clubs, diners, music festivals, and poetry hangouts. Morphing the traditions of jazz, spoken word, experimental music, chants, devotional intoning, somatics, and movement, the duo has worked with an amazing spectrum of artists, including large jazz ensembles, saxophone quartets, electronic musicians, visual artists, dancers, and their 12-year-old daughter. Thick In The Throat Honey’s work has been supported by the Creative Music Guild, Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon State University, The Black Earth Institute, and Literary Arts. They have performed and lectured at high schools, jazz festivals and poetry festivals, including The Improvisation Summit of Portland, No Fest, numerous Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble events, and The Extradition Series. In 2019, they were among 400 semi-finalists of 6,000 applicants for a Creative Capital Grant project using jazz improvisation and the stories of individual families to illustrate the struggles of Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. www.thickinthethroathoney.com
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