“I wasn’t prepared for the remarkable focus, ingenuity, and invention behind her incredible new album Solo Throat (Otoroku), in which her vast oeuvre of extended techniques, literary inspiration, and improvisational thinking come together into something far more profound and jaw-dropping than the sum of its parts.”
For five days in May, Elaine Mitchener (DAAD fellow 2022-23) transforms the daadgalerie into an interdisciplinary salon, a meeting zone, a testing ground, an open space for exchange and experiment.
First solo release from Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat draws on the work of African-American and African-Caribbean poets Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard as source material
Cafe Oto hosts a two-day residency with Elaine Mitchener, to mark the release of her first ever solo LP, Solo Throat, released on Otoroku. This special two-day residency centres on
Elaine curates Politics of the Voice for Courtisane Festival 2024. The voice is soul. Voice is noise. It’s what makes us unique as individuals but also powerful as a community.
Elaine Mitchener & Joan La Barbara explore the voice as a sound producing instrument. Ahead of Assembly at Somerset House, Somerset House Studios talk to two vocal artists who stretch
Elaine Mitchener 's new work presented as part of Assembly 2024 will descend and rescale the New Wing staircase in a multi-storey performative cycle.
“Mitchener’s versatility was to the fore in a graphic rendition of the piece, producing a tightly controlled primal scream as she literally found her voice, all aglow with the light of her upper range.”
Elaine is invited to curate this Mix for dublab: Hamilton, Lewis, Sanders, Cole, Bernard, de Saram, Hallett, Regina, Usui, Fermont, Masaoka, Lixenberg, Kalulé, Cox, Wall & Rodgers, Saviet, Das, Ortiz,
