Dina Maccabee
Rounds
Group Loops is ever-expanding suite of pieces composed for freeform group singing within an improvised polyphonic structure. They also can be performed as a soloist with live-looping.
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Four co-exisiting Haiku Rounds
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Still Life
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Anywhere in Any City
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Praktikal Anatomie
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Castles in the Sand
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These vocal pieces can be sung by any vocal ensemble and any combination of voice types. Scores available on request!
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Underachiever
All Videos
Underachiever is an improvised solo piece (or structure for composing a piece) for viola and voice. Overtones from the viola's harmonically rich drone inspire explorations of my vocal range, in order to produce mutual resonance. This can be helped along using amplification and delays, or by the grace and idiosyncracies of a resonant performance space. What is there to be sounded is explored in minute detail, ad boredum. But fundamentally, nothing is added, and nothing is achieved.
Trashghan
Trashghan is a hybrid musical instrument, score, and textile, made according to the traditional structure of an “Afghan,” but constructed from everyday plastic materials, which are often used in ASMR videos to create crinkling sounds. Re-used plastic, paper, foil, and thread, 2015.
Part 1: Video, performance by Maria “Gentle Whispering ASMR" is available on YouTube.
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Part 2: A live participatory ASMR-based performance using a sound-costume hand made from upcycled materials. Video of a performance at Women Between Arts / New School, NYC.