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Live from Musical Ecologies: Gelsey Bell (Audio)

Mar 18, 2021

"Musical Ecologies" features singer, songwriter, and scholar Gelsey Bell. The event will be broadcast live from the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, and online at wavefarm.org/listen and on the Wave Farm Radio App (iOS). Due to Covid-19 there will be no in-person audience attendance. Described by the New York Times recently as “one of New York’s most adventurous musicians”, Bell is an active performer as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist in a variety of settings. She is currently a HARP Artist at the HERE Arts Center, where she is developing a new opera called mɔːnɪŋ (pronounced as “mourning”/ “morning”) inspired by Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, a book that imagines the natural world without humans. Other recent projects include Meander (2021), a site-specific soundwalk created with Joseph White for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and a new multi-disciplinary collaboration with thingNY. For tonight’s program, Bell will perform new and recent songs and compositions for vocals, daxophone, synthesizer, and other instruments.The program will begin with a conversation hosted by series curator Dan Joseph.