Ganavya — live event
The inheritor of many traditions, virtuosic vocalist, composer, and scholar Ganavya brings together beloved ones to create an experience that sits comfortably in the nexus of them all—a sonic gathering in love, prayer, and play. “Let’s go out and play,” she entices, as she uses a song-making technologies taught to her in childhood, turning poetry into prayer. Come, play and pray with us. — Tamil Nadu-raised and New York-born critically acclaimed vocalist Ganavya lives, learns, and loves fluidly from the nexus of many frameworks and understandings. Hers is a deeply profound and rooted voice. A multidisciplinary creator, she is a soundsmith and wordsmith. Trained as an improviser, scholar, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist, she maintains an inner library of “spi/ritual” blueprints offered to her by an intergenerational constellation of collaborators, continuously anchoring her practice in pasts, presents and, futures. Much of her childhood was on the pilgrimage trail, learning the storytelling art form of harikathā and singing poetry that critiques hierarchal social structures. She is a co-founder of the non-hierarchical We Have Voice Collective. Close collaborators include Rajna Swaminathan, Shabaka Hutchings, esperanza spalding (who helped bring into final form an upcoming album titled Daughter of a Temple), and multiple productions as composer and soloist with Peter Sellars. In movement, her most cherished teachers include Michael Schumacher. As a writer, ganavya was contributing writer for elder Wayne Shorter’s opera Iphigenia, and one of her favorite published essays so far is found in John Zorn’s Arcana: Musicians on Music IX, titled “shards of ether.” She’s uncomfortable listing every person she’s worked with, but asks the reader to trust that it takes a village. Forthcoming work: in 2025, an opera she has been working on with Peter Sellars and Sivan Eldar with additional text by Lauren Groff will premiere at Festival d’Aix. She has three albums recently recorded: like the sky I’ve been too quiet (2024, produced by Shabaka Hutchings), Daughter of a Temple (forthcoming, featuring 36 artists including Immanuel Wilkins, Charles Overton, Shabaka Hutchings, esperanza spalding, Darian Donovan Thomas, Chris Sholar, Peter Sellars, Rajna Swaminathan and her parents Vidya and Ganesan Doraiswamy), and The Body of Reality (co-produced by Peter Sellars and Rajna Swaminathan, featuring Leo Genovese, Rajna Swaminathan and Amir ElSaffar).
Starts: 2024-07-21T20:30:33Z
Ends: 2024-07-21T22:30:33Z
Where: 425 Lafayette Street, New York, New York 10003, United States
Price: $30.0