Library Transmission: Contemplative Dialogue 2

Listening to musicians, composers and producers as they talk about the music that informed their thinking in the past and the present, you begin to hear a series of insights, allusions and intimations into their sonic ways of knowing the world. Those intimations, allusions and insights are what inform the structure and the format of Contemplative Dialogues.    

Contemplative Dialogue 2 explores performer and composer Elaine Mitchener’s reimagination of the works of the African-American vocalist, sound poet, composer and educator Jeanne Lee under the name of The Jeanne Lee Project.  

Mitchener’s intertemporal dialogues with the music of Jeanne Lee continues her ongoing ambition to build a living bridge upon which the vocal classics of the Black avant-garde cross time to enter and reorganise the consciousness of twenty first century listeners.   

Join us as we listen to the voice environments of Jeanne Lee that have helped shape the musical expansiveness, the poetic alienation and the political fearlessness of the sonic black womanhood of Elaine Mitchener. 

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Doors open at 5.30pm; event starts at 6pm and finishes at 8pm.

Image credit: Elaine Mitchener, guided hand | series 4 -13. Courtesy of the artist