Image: Odeya Nine, Photograph by Jersey Walz
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Living Earth invite you to a performance by Odeya Nini at the Schindler House. In September of 2021, Living Earth began an ongoing conversation with experimental vocalist and contemporary composer Odeya Nini. The topic? What it means for us to inhabit and live in conversation with diverse environments through our voice.
Join us for a performance of voice and drone inspired by the spirit of the Schindlers’ 1920s and 30s salons to investigate the unique sonic and architectural qualities that have cemented their home into history.
Through extended bodily resonance, textural harmony, gesture, and tonal animation, Odeya Nini will perform as she does so distinctly and individually, utilizing space as a raw material for vibrational sculpture.
Tickets to this program are $15, please visit here to purchase.
ODEYA NINI
Odeya Nini works to reclaim the voice as an instrument that can exist between the physical self and that which is beyond our senses. Her work extends the scope and expression of the voice and body, dynamically playing with spatial acoustics and magnifying sound’s capacity to touch all it encounters in tender, heartbreaking, and ecstatic ways.
Her work has been performed in diverse venues from concert halls to galleries, tunnels, and caves and has been presented at venues including The LA Phil, Merkin Concert Hall, The Broad Museum, and MOCA, as well as internationally in Australia, Mongolia, Madagascar, and Vietnam.
She is a member of the three time Grammy nominated ensemble Wild Up. Odeya's solo album ODE was recognized by The New Yorker as a notable recording of 2022 . She is the founder of Free The Voice and leads vocal sound meditations, workshops, and retreats exploring the transformative and healing qualities of embodying the voice.
Living Earth is a Grammy-nominated outdoor arts series that works in conversation with conservation organizations, public parks, gardens, unique land projects, and cultural institutions to gather peoples of all ages to explore Los Angeles through solar-powered performances and transformative outdoor adventures.
Created and operated by local artists, naturalists, and organizers, these gatherings blend our lifetime love of interdependent music & native ecology, emphasizing deep listening as a form of reciprocity with the living world. By reimagining public art as a creative act of restoration, Living Earth is a collective project in cultivating meaningful connections with our immediate communities, histories, ecosystems, and the planet, ultimately rehabilitating our relationship with nature and ourselves.
MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Founded in 1994, the MAK Center is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization and the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. The core of the programming includes the internationally recognized MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects. The MAK Center works in cooperation with the Friends of the Schindler House (FoSH), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and maintain Schindler's Kings Road house in West Hollywood.