Vocals

[p*dis] distribution sampler for June 2011.

jessika kenney & eyvind kang - aestuarium - Towards Solitude (ideologic organ)

Jessika Kenney. Audio clip from Anchor Zero, 2014. Three-channel video with twelve-channel audio. Composition and vocals by Jessika Kenney. Sound design and engineering by Mell Dettmer. Mixing by Mell Dettmer and Eyvind Kang.

Anchor Zero at the Frye Art Museum premieres a new composition by Kenney for spatialized anti-choir, presented in a large-scale sound and video installation specially commissioned by the Frye Art Museum for its galleries. Comprised of talismanic scores, ethereal imagery, and interactive spaces, Anchor Zero expresses a mysticism which posits itself in the midst of the tensions between personal and universal, traditions and immediacy, prayer and discourse. It explores an “emptiness practice” of wandering and sounding, which Kenney describes as a deep interiorization of vocalization that supports a heightened sense of external space.

Jessika Kenney: Anchor Zero Excerpt

RAFT
Andy Moor - Guitar
Steve Heather - Drums
Clayton Thomas - Double Bass
Sofia Jernberg - Voice

Tie Me Swiftly

JK composition based on an excerpt from Attar:
What can I do, the beloved as renegade has come
Dagger in hand, through the market has come
This blade is thirsty for the heart's love
I am sure this pouring and devouring has come

S/he is LOVE, Lover, and Belovedness
Who are you, when "All as Beloved" has come?

Except for annihilation there is nothing I can see
That however is the given-destiny of Attar

tr. by JK

07 Her Sword II

Filastine feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney - Fitnah

Jarrad Powel & Jessika Kenney - Listen

Steve is interested in the repetitive acoustic territories of every day life informing his and others sonic agency. His
research revolves around the physicality of sonic boundaries and how it informs compositional methodologies, materials and structures along with the listeners corporal reading there of. His music is a collision of captivating simplicity and fleeting subtle complexity. Hypnotic and compelling.

drums / percussion / electronics / composition / improvisation / installation / production / fitness / meditation / gardening / woodwork / film