Composer/musician Anaïs Maviel shares B.A.-BA (Before before & After after), a piece for vocalists and percussion. An extension of her work with The Commons Choir, B.A.-BA (French for indicating the basics of something) will incorporate polyphonic & polyrhythmic languages that have influenced Maviel's own development as a performer for over a decade. The work revolves around the capacity of song to exceed language, or myths to exceed narration in the metaphysical telling of our origins and rites of passage. The cross-disciplinary piece will highlight the tension between circular and linear time, at the perceptive edges of living history.

Collaborators on the piece include Thea Little, Rose Stoller, Rema Hasumi, Sound Brown, Bonita Oliver, Eli Berman, Ben Bath, Brian McCorkle, Tanyaradzwa Tawenga, Polina Ionina, Marianne Allard, Melanie Maar, and Robert Kocik, among others.

Location: 20 Putnam Ave in Brooklyn. C or G train to Clinton-Washington. Shuttle to Franklin Ave

Performance Dates & Times

Friday, June 3, 2022 at 8:00 pm

Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 8:00 pm

Tickets
$20.00 General Admission available here.

About the Artist

Anaïs Maviel's work as a vocalist, musician and composer focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation at many levels of existence, and invoking utopian futures. Anaïs is dedicated to substantial creations from solo to large ensembles, song writing, music direction, cross-disciplinary collaboration and scoring, expanding the power of music as a transformative, living practice. Anaïs writes, performs and teaches in New York, throughout the Americas and Europe. Both solo albums hOULe & in the garden, out on Gold Bolus Recordings, received international acclaim. Lastly, Anaïs Maviel is an awardee of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create and 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.

This work is supported by a commissioning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Health & Safety

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(Photo credit: Michael Lucio Sternbach)