The fourth annual Vital Vox Festival, which explores the far-reaching capabilities of the human voice, is back after Hurricane Sandy canceled fall performances
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
March 25-26, $15, 8:00
917-267-0363
www.vitalfoxfest.com
www.roulette.org
The fourth annual Vital Vox Festival, dedicated to exploring the seemingly limitless range and power of the human voice, was scheduled to present a half dozen cutting-edge performers over the course of two nights at Roulette in Brooklyn on October 29-30, but Hurricane Sandy silenced the festivities. Not to let Mother Nature get it down, the festival will now take place March 25-26 at Roulette. Monday, March 25, will consist of a cappella jazz and blues singer and composer Philip Hamilton’s “Vocalscapes: Solitude” for voice, percussion, and electronics; excerpts from New York-based, Uruguayan-born audiovisual artist Sabrina Lastman’s “An Encounter with ‘El Duende,’” which pays tribute to Federico García Lorca using voice, movement, sound, bowed psaltery, megaphone, and visuals; Loom Trio’s “Music from Erosion: A Fable,” with Raphael Sacks, Kate Hamilton, and Sasha Bogdanowitsch playing excerpts from the 2012 multidisciplinary theatrical production; and San Francisco-born, Brooklyn-based violinist, composer, vocalist, and poet Sarah Bernstein’s Unearthish, a duo with percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. Tuesday’s program features Lisa Karrer’s “Collision Theory: Works and Premieres for Voice & Multi-Media,” a collaboration with partner David Simons that will include her “Meeting Max: Vocal Experiments with Interactive Video Mixer” and his “The Opera Within the Opera,” with electronics, triggered Theremin, and keyboard; multidisciplinary artist, composer, and teacher Bodganowitsch’s “Timbre Tree,” an excerpt from a song cycle involving live looping and processing, dance and movement, text, and such instruments as the syrinx, fujara, koncovka, halo drum, and karimba, featuring the Loom Ensemble (Andrew Broaddus, Helen Joyce, Sacks, Hamilton and Michael Bauer); and San Francisco-based Pamela Z’s “Works for Voice, Live Processing, and Video,” with excerpts from “Memory Trace” along with other short pieces.