​The Stringed Crane Conservatory is thrilled to invite you to join us in the saz atelier for a very special two-part vocal workshop series with extraordinary vocalist, composer, scholar, and teacher, Jessika Kenney.

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These two independent yet related workshops will be based in multi-lingual and era-spanning poetic selections and will involve exercises in singing and breathing that play with the awareness of pulse! Geared for all participants who love to use their voices, this will be a unique opportunity to encounter musical and poetic experimentation through the body, the flesh, and shared personhood.

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Participants are welcome to reserve tickets to join both sessions or either individual workshop.

Jessika Kenney is a vocalist, composer, sound artist, writer, educator, and improviser channeling warbled poetics and visceral blossoms through studied and experiential learning towards liberatory possibility. Her recorded work includes the exegetical nuances of the album "Atria" on Sige, as well as six acclaimed records in collaboration with Eyvind Kang including 2023's "Azure" on Ideologic Organ. Kenney's work always remains close in spirit to her punk roots, revealing a sonic imagination that hovers on the edge of knowability, from her recording of Alvin Lucier's final vocal piece "So You" with Charles Curtis, Anthony Burr and Tom Erbe on Black Truffle, to Sarah Davachi's "Two Sisters" recorded remotely with Dorothy Berry.  Kenney has also recorded and performed with Niloufar Shiri, Lori Goldston, Holland Andrews, Trimpin, Simone Forti, and Melati Suryadarmo. Her early work includes renegade shadow theater, punk bands, compositions for choir and orchestra, as well as sound and video installations, including Anchor Zero, filling 5 rooms at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in 2015.