ELISE KERMANI

On the Verge of Reality

Osculation

Vocal improvisations with Don Malone on computer. Recorded live at the Electronic Music Studio at Roosevelt University in Chicago, May, 1992.

Priscilla's Call on DICE: A Collection of Contemporary Women Composers

A mythical story recorded with no electronic processing except for reverb. Also includes works by artists Alquimia, Christine Baczewska, Barnett Band, Lynn Book, Cecilia, Justine, The Qube Chix and LaDonna Smith. "This vibrant anthology...DICE captures something wild, primal, and outside the world of male-dominated musical catagories" Kyle Gann, Village Voice

DICE II

Sequel to DICE and including many of the same performers.

Spiral onThe Aerial: Issue #4

Text sound poem. Collection also includes works by Peter Van Riper, Erik Belgum, Leif Brush, Elodie Lauten, Brenda Hutchinson, Anna Homler and Steve Moshier, Joseph Weber, Patsy Rahn and N. Sean William.

Elise Kermani

In her performances, Elise Kermani combines sound poetry with real and imagined words, extended voice with live electronic processing and movement, many times to create a "warm" technology. Her most current work revolves around a handful of women characters, each displaying a separate range of human emotion through the mythical stories they tell with their bodies and voices in an abstract yet clear supernatural language. Kermani performs solo or in collaboration with video artists, computer programmers and designers to stage her multi-disciplinary works. She is also a creative force in the new music ensemble Trousers. For Kermani, we. as artists, "must strive to be scientists by discovering a new world and a new language. We have a social responsibility to incorporate the use of new technology into our work, just as modern science, business and education has - not as a defensive reaction to our changing technology, but as an integrated leader."

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