http://www.claralatham.com/works
I have been working with Juliana May on her new piece Optimistic Voices, which premieres this November as part of the BAM Nextwave festival. This work is soooooo wonderfully strange and beautiful; intimate in ways you both crave and cannot stand. Juliana and the five dancers have been working intensively (rehearsing four days a week, no kidding) for months, and I am just floored by what they are undertaking. The show is November 5 - 8, so get your tickets today!
During summer 2020 my life was saved by a series of improvisations with choreographer Katy Pyle, dancers Meg Harper and Charles Gowin, and flautist Claire Chase. We met in parks near my house in Crown Heights. This video premiered on October 8 with DANCE NOW.
Court of the Wilis
Ballez/Katy Pyle
Choreography: Katy Pyle, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Composer: Clara Hunter Latham, after Adolphe Adam
Director of Photography: Robyn Ayers
Dancers:
Charles Gowin, Meg Harper, Matthias Kodat, MJ Markovitz, Janet Panetta, Ash Phan, Katy Pyle, Nat Wilson
Musicians:
Carlos Aguilar, flute
Robert Fleitz, piano
Lauren Siess, viola
My piece “Unboxing timbre in the Behringer Model D Synthesizer” was published in the journal Sound Studies. You can read it here.
Watch the dance scene from my opera Bertha the Mom, performed at Roulette Intermedium on June 3. Featuring Alice Teyssier, Michael Weyandt, Seth Parker Woods, Peter Evans, and Emily Manzo. Libretto by James Currie. Directed by Katherine Brook. Choreography by Garland Jude. Costumes by Diego Montoyo.
I'm incredibly honored to be the Keynote Performer at the Sonic Fluidities conference at UCSD next week, where grad students will perform a reading from my opera Bertha the Mom. Check out the program!
My essay "How Many Voices Can She Have? Destabilizing Desire and Identification in American Lulu" has been published in the Cambridge journal Opera Quarterly! I am thrilled to be in this special volume on Vocal Organologies and Philologies, guest edited by Emily Dolan.
I'm thrilled to have been selected for a fellowship in music/sound at Akademie Schloss-Solitude for 2017 - 18.
I'm very pleased that my review essay "Listening to Modernism: New Books in the History of Sound" has been published in Contemporary European History. Here is a link: https://www.academia.edu/31648195/Listening_to_Modernism_New_Books_in_the_History_of_Sound
I co-edited a volume of Music & Politics with J. Martin Daughtry called "The Limits of Hearing: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Vocal Materiality and Expression". Check it out here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp
https://www.facebook.com/events/1008545469230014/
I'm really honored to present at this event next week.
I won a JFund Grant from the American Composers Forum for my opera Talking Cure, featuring Peter Evans (trumpet), Sam Pluta (electronics), Michael Weyandt (voice), and Alice Teyssier (voice). I'm thrilled to have this financial backing support this project, which will replicate the case history of Fräulein Anna O.
2pm @ Trans Pecos
with Fox Millions Duo, Jeremy Smoking Band (Justin Frye from PC Worship)
7pm @ Secret Project Robot
Oneida curates an evening of performance.
