Join us for workshop 9 at Performance Works NW featuring new and in-process sound and music by warm canopy, Maxx Katz and Vanessa Micale.
Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
Doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
$10-15 sliding scale
$5 Arts for All
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.
About the Artists:
Didi, who performs under the moniker warm canopy, is a queer, non-binary, time-based artist who examines the spaces of communication development and breakdown in connection with social structures and identity. They currently work under the moniker warm canopy, producing immersive soundscapes and performances, channeling plunderphonic mentalities and gathering ephemeral charges to release in static bursts.
Maxx Katz is an artist, composer, and performer based in Portland, Oregon, whose work draws on vocabulary from performance art, free improvisation, jazz, contemporary classical, and heavy metal. A classically trained flutist with an M.A. in Music from the University of Virginia, Katz uses flute, electric guitar, voice, and movement as instruments of radical transformation. Katz has been commissioned to create work for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and the Oregon Contemporary 2024 Artists’ Biennial, and has created work in collaboration with musicians and dancers including Tyshawn Sorey, Linda Austin, Tahni Holt and Muffie Delgado-Connelly, John Niekrasz, and Julian Otis. Their Yelling Choir project has debuted compositions at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, Oregon Contemporary 2024 Artists’ Biennial, the American Choral Directors Association NW Conference, Congress Yard Projects, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and ACRE Artist Residency. They have led Yelling Choir workshops at Banff and ACRE as well as Portland State University, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inward Bound Mindfulness Education teen and young adult meditation retreats, and Portland Public Schools. They have toured extensively across the U.S., Europe, and Canada as part of various collaborative and solo projects. Katz was a resident at the 2019 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music with Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, and Atlantic Center for the Arts with flutist Nicole Mitchell. They compose work for ongoing ensembles including Yelling Choir and Floom.
Vanessa Micale is a mixed Uruguayan American multidisciplinary artist who creates as a bilingual poet, writer, singer-songwriter and performer. She draws from various modalities of sound, language and movement, influenced by fringe arts. Vanessa’s current rumination includes bird song, magical non-linear thinking, dreams as a third space, translanguaging, complex grief, and the scale of veracity. Her chosen mediums range from: guitar and sparse pedals, heady vocals, storytelling, and flourishes of a half-circle silk veil.
Their Pushcart nominated writing appears in Guernica, The Hopper, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, and more, with support from VONA, Anaphora, Latinx in Publishing, and the Randolph College MFA Blackburn fellowship. Vanessa was formerly based out of Los Angeles where she performed and recorded experimental folk music as ‘ilo mar.’ Later she used the solo project name ‘elle bosque.’ Over the years she self-recorded 8 albums and produced a handful of zines, none of which are available online. As a queer neurodiverse being currently in the shape of a tall person, Vanessa experiments with lyric, hybrid genres and forms. Vanessa appreciates soft nightlife, forest baths, animals (especially dogs), and lush glimmers of joy. They offer somatic coaching, facilitation and creative collaboration through Poderosa Voz.
https://www.vanessamicale.com
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