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Fifteen Questions – March 2025
Elaine Mitchener about Working, Composing, and Improvising with her Voice
Ahead of a new Barbican premiere, the experimental vocalist speaks about her practise, disrupting semantic sense and her love for how people say the things they say.
The Wire – February 2025
Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK
Claire Sawers
“Bold curating now about bold curating then, Deep Time runs deep and feels vital with satisfying, intermingling art forms.”
Composing While Black: a concert by International Contemporary Ensemble
International Contemporary Ensemble will perform at University of California Irvine and celebrate the wide-ranging creative visions of Black composers
Art Monthly – February 2025
Sound
Deep Time:
Basquiat and Cage 84.24
Dan Kidner
“Mitchener’s passions are deeply personal but also resonate with a broader community of artists, curators, writers and researchers who, through sonic and listening strategies, grapple with the question of what it means to pay attention in a world where this capacity is increasingly under threat.”
black radical – 19 February 2025
the future is now: an interview with elaine mitchener
Michelle Kambasha
on third spaces, the limits of language and dismantling the notion that black artistic expression is linear and in the distance.
Tell! Jonkonnu, Tell! by Mikhail Johnson with Ensemble Klang
Mitchener and Ensemble Klang perform works that explore themes of remembrance. The program includes the premiere of Tell, Jonkonnu Tell! by Jamaican-American composer Mikhail Johnson.
The Quietus – 12 November 2024
Elaine Mitchener on Curating This Year’s Deep Time Festival
Vanessa Ague
We caught up with Mitchener in advance of the event to talk about her curatorial perspective.
Elaine becomes fellow of MILL’s Beauty Reality Salon 2024
Needcompany is delighted to announce the laureate of MILL's annual Beauty Reality Salon fellowship: British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist, and composer Elaine Mitchener!