Program

Mame Loshn Potions מאַמע לשון פאָשנס by Eli Berman
Eli Berman improvises a set of experimental dance music in English and af Yiddish, weaving together khazones (Ashkenazi Jewish cantorial singing) and Appalachian ballad traditions with extended vocal techniques and digital processing.

Dreaming of a Phoenix Rising by Armond Dorsey
Dreaming of a Phoenix Rising is a poem, a fusion of clarinet with field recordings, and an exploration of the question “how do we heal” rooted in Black livingness and ways of knowing. Hear the tale of Black Phoenix rising from the ashes, hear the sounds of Black life.

A Deal by Piper Hill
A Deal is a song from my Sims Musical, which is a machinima-musical. Machinima are movies made out of footage of video games. So it’s a movie-musical. Alone, this is basically just a music video. For now, you don’t need to worry about what happened before this or what will happen after this, just have a nice time. If you want to watch me as I work on the rest of this musical, building the sets and characters, etc. then check out my twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/eochaid_ok.

Nina Boujee and Indigo present: Fiends, Feelings & Frolicking Fishsticks (THE MUSICAL!) by Olivia Shortt
Nina Boujee is your cHa0tiC & weird drag-adjacent Two-Spirit Trickster friend. Sometimes, they like to pretend that they understand what it means to be a human in 2022 and sometimes they like to imagine themselves as a potato salesperson living with ten cats (all named Nimkii).

mouthpiece by Hamed Sinno
mouthpiece is an audiovisual performance for voice, speech synthesizers, and tape players. The piece is an excerpt from a longer performance exploring queer vocalities as an interface for political embodiment.

grain studies by Trevor Van de Velde
grain studies is an exploration of the sonic granularity of rice and its use as both a cultural and sonic technology. Various DIY instruments and objects are used as vessels to create delicate feedback with amplified rice acting as a physical filter. grain studies was composed using material from a larger work that investigates the web of relations between technology, ritual and Asian futurity.

The New Music Festival is programmed in conjunction with the Dartmouth Department of Music with co-sponsorship by the African and African American Studies Program and the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Program will take place in the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center.