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June 21: Music on the Rebound and ICE Host The World Wide Heart Chant by Pauline Oliveros
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ICE PR Contact: Katy Salomon | Morahan Arts and Media
katy@morahanartsandmedia.com | 863.660.2214
Music on the Rebound Contact: Raquel Acevedo Klein
musicontherebound@gmail.com | 347.840.0269
Music on the Rebound and International Contemporary Ensemble
Host The World Wide Heart Chant by Pauline Oliveros
Led by IONE, Claire Chase, and Raquel Acevedo Klein
Live on Sunday, June 21 at 5pm EDT
Tune via Zoom. No music experience necessary.
New York, NY (June 15, 2020) — On Sunday June 21, 2020 at 5pm EDT, Music on the Rebound and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) host The World Wide Heart Chant. IONE, Claire Chase, and Raquel Acevedo Klein lead a global performance of the late Pauline Oliveros’s Heart Chant as part of Make Music Day, a global celebration inviting all ages and skill levels to learn and perform music on the summer solstice. The Heart Chant is one of composer Pauline Oliveros’s “Deep Listening” meditations, her practice of “listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing.” Musicians and non-musicians alike are invited to join via Zoom for this special version of Pauline’s piece to sing together from their personal phone or computer. No music experience is necessary. Initially written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, this performance of the Heart Chant joins hearts, minds, and voices with Black Lives Matter in unity with the global initiative to redress social injustice and institute lasting moral reform.
Oliveros’s Heart Chant consists of four steps:
1. (Zoom Version) Sense the internet as a circle of beings expanding throughout the world. Be aware of those to your right and to your left.
2. Warm up your hands by rubbing palms together until you feel the heat.
3. (Zoom Version) Place your right hand over your own heart. Bring your left hand up close to the screen, imagining and sensing the partner to your left. Position your hand in the area of the (imagined) back of their heart.
4. After a few natural breaths sing/chant/intone “AH” on any pitch that will resonate your heart. Sense the energy of your own heart and that of your partner over the course of several breaths.
5. Can you imagine that the heart energies are joining together for healing yourself and others?
6. Can you imagine heart energies traveling out into the universe as a healing for all victims and toward the end of violence?
7. When the Heart Chant ends, gradually release your palms and bring them forward parallel in front of you. Sense the energy between the palms as if there were a sphere or ball that can be moved around. Then bring your palms to your own center, fold them over and store the energy.
Music on the Rebound is an online, interactive music festival designed to bring people together and support performing artists affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Viewers are invited to participate in live events and stream digital curations. On Mondays through July 28, at 7pm EDT, Music on the Rebound broadcasts Connecting ACO Community, a weekly performance series featuring new works commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra. Performances will showcase esteemed artists such as Seth Parker Woods, Shara Nova, Ahya Simone, Monica Ellis, and Karena Ingram among others.
Program Information
The World Wide Heart Chant
Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 5pm EDT
Tickets: Free. RSVP Here to receive Zoom call-in information.
Information Link: https://www.musicrebound.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/
Performers and Administration:
Raquel Acevedo Klein – Founder & Producer, Music on the Rebound
Ione – Co-Organizer, Heart Chant
Bridgid Bergin – Co-Organizer, Heart Chant
?Claire Chase – Co-Organizer, Heart Chant
?International Contemporary Ensemble – Host, Heart Chant
Music on the Rebound Social Media:
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Handle – @musicontherebound
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About Make Music Day
Held annually on June 21, Make Music Day is part of the international Fête de la Musique, taking place in over 1,000 cities across 120 countries. The daylong, musical free-for-all celebrates music in all its forms, encouraging people to band together and play in free public concerts. Over 85 U.S. cities and the entire states of Vermont, Connecticut, Hawaii and Wisconsin are participating in this year’s celebration, which is going virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic. Make Music Day is presented by the NAMM Foundation and coordinated by the non-profit Make Music Alliance. For more information, please visit www.makemusicday.org.
About Raquel Acevedo Klein
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Raquel Acevedo Klein is an active conductor, vocalist, instrumentalist and visual artist. She is currently a touring vocalist with Anthony Braxton for his retrospective Braxton75 concert season. She conducts for the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus. She has premiered works by Philip Glass, John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Paola Prestini, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli, Shara Nova, and Aleksandra Vrebalov, to name a few. Raquel has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Town Hall, BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Celebrate Brooklyn!, National Sawdust and elsewhere. She has recorded and performed with the likes of Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, The Knights, NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble and Mariinsky Orchestra among others.
About IONE
IONE is an author/playwright/director and an improvising text-sound artist. She has taught and performed world-wide with her creative partner and spouse of 30 years, Pauline Oliveros. Pauline and IONE have created large music theater works together. The most recent is The Nubian Word For Flowers; a Phantom Opera produced with the International Contemporary Ensemble, premiered at Roulette Intermedium, 2017, Pocket Edition- NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 2019. Earlier works include Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior, Io and Her and the Trouble with Him; A Dance Opera in Primeval Time and The Lunar Opera; Deep Listening For_Tunes. Her film, Dreams of the Jungfrau includes sound design by Oliveros. Among her publications are: Listening in Dreams, Spell Breaking Vols 1 & 2, and Nile Night. Her memoir, Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, was a New York Times Notable Book on its publication. As a journalist, IONE, published in major magazines and newspapers throughout the 80s including The Village Voice, The Gannet Chain and Vogue. Formerly Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd for 15 years, she is currently a consultant at the Center for Deep Listening ®, Troy, NY. She is Founding Director of M.o.M., Inc. (The Ministry of Maåt) since 1997. The Not-for-Profit organization offers Women’s Mysteries Retreats, and workshops highlighting dreams and creativity throughout the world. MoM, Inc. also disseminates the work of Pauline Oliveros and encourages a vibrant international community of writers, visual artists, and musicians. IONE is the recipient of the 2019 Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist’s Award and a Certificate of Merit from the General Assembly of the State of New York.
About Claire Chase
Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Over the past decade she has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and she has championed new music throughout the world by building organizations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.
In 2013 Chase launched Density 2036, a 23-year commissioning project to create an entirely new body of repertory for flute between 2014 and 2036, the centenary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Each season as part of the project, Chase premieres a new program of commissioned music, with six hours of new repertory created to date. In 2036, she will play a 24-hour marathon of all of the repertory created in the project. Chase will release world premiere recordings the first four years of the Density cycle in collaboration with the producer Matias Tarnopolsky at Meyer Sound Laboratories in Berkeley, CA.
About the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
The International Contemporary Ensemble is an artist collective that is transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, the Ensemble explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The Ensemble’s 36 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble’s programming since its founding in 2001, and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present.
A recipient of the American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award and the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the International Contemporary Ensemble was also named the 2014 Musical America Ensemble of the Year. The group currently serves as artists-in-residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart Festival, and previously led a five-year residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The International Contemporary Ensemble was featured at the Ojai Music Festival from 2015 to 2017, and at recent festivals abroad such as gmem-CNCM-marseille and Vértice at Cultura UNAM, Mexico City. Other performance stages have included the Park Avenue Armory, The Stone, ice floes at Greenland’s Diskotek Sessions, and boats on the Amazon River.
OpenICE, made possible with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offers free concerts and interactive, educational programming wherever the Ensemble performs. As the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology, the International Contemporary Ensemble advances music technology and digital communications as an empowering tool for artists from all backgrounds. Curricular activities include a residency and coursework at the New School College of Performing Arts, along with a summer intensive program, called Ensemble Evolution, where topics of equity, diversity, and inclusion build new bridges and pathways for the future of creative sound practices. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for the Ensemble. Read more at www.iceorg.org and watch over 350 videos of live performances and documentaries at www.digitice.org.
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