WHEN: March 18, 19 & 20, 2010
WHERE: Danspace Project, ST. Marks Church: 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
WHAT: Crow's Nest is an Intermedia performance by Elaine Summers premiered in 1981 at Guggenheim Museum with an original score by Pauline Oliveros. Elaine has been invited by Judy Hussie-Taylor of Danspace at St. Mark's church and Juliette Mapp to present it at Danspace Project in March 18-20, 2010. We need upto 50 volunteer chorus members to perform The Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros. Women, men and children are all welcome to sing. Members can commit to all three days or any of the days that they can. They will also be asked to join one or two chorus rehearsals in NYC.

The instructions for The Tuning Meditation are as follows:

Begin by taking a deep breath and letting it all the way out with air sound.
Listen with your mind's ear for a tone.

On the next breath using any vowel sound, sing the tone that you have silently perceived on one comfortable breath.

Listen to the whole field of sound the group is making.
Select a voice distant from you and tune as exactly as possible to the tone you are hearing from that voice.

Listen again to the whole field of sound the group is making.
Contribute by singing a new tone that no one else is singing.

Continue by listening then singing a tone of your own or tuning to the tone of another voice alternately.

Commentary:

Always keep the same tone for any single breath. Change to a new tone on another breath.
Listen for distant partners for tuning.
Sound your new tone so that it may be heard distantly.

Communicate with as many different voices as possible.

Sing warmly!

Pauline Oliveros
© Copyright Deep Listening Publications 2007

Please respond to Elaine Summers Dance & Film: elaine@elainesummersdance.com with subject "Crow's Nest 2010", or fill the form at the bottom of this page. We will get back to you with more details by early October.

This performance was a recreation of the original, orchestrated by Alissa Cardone and Alla Kovgan, members of an Intermedia performance collaborative Kinodance Company. Performers include Alissa Cardone, Ingrid Schatz, DeAnna Pellecchia, Debra Bluth, Olivier Besson and Laura Quattrocchi.

© Copyright Elaine Summers Dance & Film 2009