River Run (Nancy Maker Brown) Reimmaginata e revisionata

Autori

  • kei slaughter Loyola University-New Orleans

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3250

Abstract

Abstract  

Scritto inizialmente nel 2019, "River Run" è una composizione originale dedicata alla mia bis-bis-bis-bis nonna materna, Nancy Maker Brown. Questa intima performance è una versione reinventata e rivista, che intreccia elementi destrutturati della canzone originale, con vocalizzazioni improvvisate, percussioni corporee e loop di flauto, e performance dal vivo di voce e flauto. Per me, questo (ri) mix è un'esplorazione ed espressione dell'estetica nera - immaginando ed evocando nuovi mondi sonori attraverso il mio corpo nero queer ed espansivo di genere mentre interagisco con la memoria ancestrale. Gli elementi essenziali di respiro, tono e voce, sono stati intenzionalmente usati per radicarmi nelle mie origini musicale-culturali, riportandomi a una sorta di musica delle radici. Incarnando il concetto dell'Africa occidentale di Sankofa, mentre guardo indietro al passato per ricordare chi sono, guardo anche avanti verso il futuro, riflesso attraverso l'uso di live looping, stratificazione e narrazione circolare. 

Biografia autore

kei slaughter, Loyola University-New Orleans

kei slaughter, MT-BC (pronouns: they/them/theirs) is a Queer Black non-binary vocalist, flutist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist-healer conjuring bokou magik from deep New Orleans roots. They are the Founder/Lead Music Therapist of S O U L F O L K Sounds, a radical community music production and sound healing practice centering LGBTQ+ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). kei is also a vocal psychotherapy-trained wellness practitioner and board-certified music therapist working to intentionally to co-create generative, compassionate spaces in community that bring forth frequencies of healing, freedom, and sustainable joy. For kei, this heartwork centers Black and Afro-diasporic musical traditions and embodied healing praxis, and includes elements such as freedom singing, vocal/instrumental and body percussive improvisation, sonic storytelling, and more. 

As a professional musician, kei is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist (specializing in flute), and songwriter, weaving soulful roots&rhythms and gospel-shout feels with musical storytelling and collective healing. kei performs regularly in their hometown of New Orleans, self-published their debut album (Dark Fire) in 2017, and has toured regionally and nationally with solo and collaborative projects. They are the Co-Music Director of a theatre production with Last Call New Orleans and Co-Creator of Non-Binary duo, Spirit & Sparrow. Additionally, kei serves as the Clinical Coordinator of Music Therapy at Loyola University-New Orleans, where they’ve been a member of the Music Therapy faculty since 2019. 

To listen and follow the experience: www.keislaughter.com

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Pubblicato

2021-04-20

Come citare

slaughter, kei. (2021). River Run (Nancy Maker Brown) Reimmaginata e revisionata. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3250

Fascicolo

V. 21 N. 1 (2021): Special Multidisciplinary Issue on Black Aesthetics & the Arts Therapies

Sezione

Artistic Response: Music

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Copyright (c) 2021 kei slaughter

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