anaïs maviel
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  • works
    • solo >
      • piano voice
      • multi-disciplinary
      • surdo voice
      • n'goni voice
    • chamber / orchestral >
      • listen to the rain - string quartet, n'goni & voices ft. the Rhythm Method
      • listen to the rain - FR
      • Métadire - chamber orchestra ft. Alarm Will Sound
    • choral / ritual >
      • AÏM choral collective
      • This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time
      • Before before & After after - a sound installation & experiential choral piece
      • BE - vocal 4tet ft. Lívia Nestrovski, Lenna Bahule & Maria Luana
      • Time is Due - an operatic installation
      • Bleu Blanc Black - for any choir
      • Commons Choir - The Prosodic Body
    • improvised / afrocentric >
      • If You Say So ft. Sam Yulsman
      • Azúcar - dance film CONTRA-TIEMPO
      • Mara Rosenbloom Flyways: Adrienne Rich love poems
      • DIÁSPORA ft. Chiquita Magic
      • meshell ndegeocello: The Atlantiques
      • Wind: Next Jazz Legacy
      • Métadire Experiments: French quintet & septet
      • trio w/ William Parker & Leonid Galaganov
      • Matt Lavelle's 12 houses big band
  • transmission
    • workshops
    • teaching
    • sound healing
  • creolization
    • conversations
    • music & utopia
"Space is the place" — Sun Ra. In a former life I was a scholar and did research on the interconnectedness of music & utopia. Utopia not as a dream that will never exist, but as a place in space that hasn't been activated yet. This research helped me frame my entire body of work as an artist, as I am actively working on activating new possibles for how we perceive & experience our existence through the stories we tell, how we relate to ourselves, each other, our environment, planet, cosmos. I am a firm believer that language & symbols hold a lot more information that we think, and that it is our duty to approach the power of expression and creation with great care and responsibility. If you are francophone, please inquire and I can send my papers, one has a case study on M-Base Collective and the other one on the Vision Festival, but they both are very expansive in terms of the ideas they play with and the people they reference. They are also very personal and represent my initial body of work as a non-dogmatic spiritual thinker & writer.

music, language & multiculturalism
resonant bodies festival

performance lecture on relation
live at the kitchen

start video at 1:10:00 for Anaïs Maviel's performance-lecture on RELATION
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