Zanana (za-NAH-nah)
is an electro-acoustic chamber music duo featuring Kristin
Norderval, (voice) and Monique Buzzarté (trombone)
collaboratively composing and performing improvised music blending acoustic
sounds, electronics and live processing. Zanana's inception dates from an all-night
peace vigil concert in the fall of 2002 when Kristin invited Monique and poet
Barbara Barg to join her for an evening of improvised music and spoken
word. Since then Monique and Kristin have continued developing repertoire as
a live processing duo, recording and performing in venues ranging from concert
halls to clubs to abandoned buildings. Zanana uses improvisation as the foundation
of their compositional process. While some works are free improvisations, some
are structured improvisations and some are composed works with aleatoric elements,
all are rooted in the expansive practices of Deep Listening. Zanana takes its
name from a variant spelling of "zenana," the portion of a house in
southwestern Asian countries exclusively dedicated to women.
Holding Patterns is a compilation of live recordings selected from Zanana's
first season of performances. Gasholder Duet is an improvised duo of unprocessed
acoustic sounds recorded live inside the historic Gasholder Building in Troy,
NY. Doorjam and Ghost Dog combine live processing of both the voice and trombone
sampled in real-time with prerecorded soundfiles of ambient recordings made
at the Gasholder Building and prerecorded and electronically processed voice
soundfiles. Flags, Title X, and What a Pretty Dog were recorded live in concert
in New York City. Poet Barbara Barg provides the text for Flags and joins the
duo on spoken word on What a Pretty Dog in honor of Monique's dog Suki, who
was accustomed to hearing this phrase regularly from strangers throughout her
life.
Homer
Erotica - YieldCriminal (Barg)
King of the Ghosts (Dubris/Barg)
What I Think About (Dubris)
After Agriculture (Barg)
All Songs by Barbara Barg and Maggie Dubris.
Homer
Erotica - Homerica the BeautifulKing of the Ghosts (Barg/Dubris)
Mt. Fuji (Gallant)
Temporary America- Day by Day (Barg/Chassler)
The Real War (Dubris)
Ebola Militia (Dubris/Wendt)
Late 20th Century Sexuality (Barg)
Zoom Golly (Barg)
Sandyland (Dubris)
The Dragon (Dubris)
The Fisher Girl (Dubris/Wendt)
I Like That (Barg)
Singer / Song Writer for Homer Erotic and author of Origin of the Species.
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