The Benton Museum of Art and the Music Department at Pomona College are pleased to present a live music performance featuring Niloufar Shiri (kamāncheh player, composer, and improviser) and Jessika Kenney (sound and voice artist, composer, teacher, and writer).
Niloufar Shiri and Jessika Kenney share new compositions/improvisations for voices, kamancheh, electronics, and field recordings drawing on the words used by Forugh Farrokhzad, Bidel, and the movements for freedom through women’s rights in Iran and around the world.
“Slowly on the surface, that the flower may awaken from the pulse of the breath” - Bidel Dehlavi
Jessika Kenney (she/they) is a sound and voice artist, composer, teacher, and writer born on Sp'q'n'i?/Spokane lands (www.native-land.ca (http://www.native-land.ca/)). As a composer Kenney has written for solo voices, ensembles, choirs, orchestras, and sound/video installation, and her work has been presented in 5 out of 7 continents. Her vocalizations offer a unique intersection of haptic and aural sensibilities in the realms of the ordinary, the uncanny, and the resonant.