Prismatic Xtychs: Meditations on Chance, Choice, and Action

June 23, 2023

7:00pm

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC

Prismatic Xtychs: Meditations on Chance, Choice, and Action is the second in a series of structured improvisation performances works meditating on chance and choice through gestural and sonic action. The audience hears an invocation/incantation to which they can choose to respond by a series of chance gestures that determine the structure of this premiering sonic performance work. The instrumentation is voice, Array mbira, autoharp, QChord, Theremini, virtual synthesizers, and electronics.

Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumental electronic musician, and multimedia artist Christina Wheeler’s sonic explorations include forays in a myriad of styles and forms. She blends an amalgam of improvised electronic music from an array of sources: processed vocals, vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler, theremin, QChord, autoharp, and electric mbira.