VOCALIST, COMPOSER, VOICE HEALER
louise@voiceborne.com, P.O. Box 349, Evanston, IL, 60204-0349
• "Stubble Trouble", Oscar-nominated short animated film by Joseph E. Merideth
• American premiere of Harold Pinter's "Family Voices", American Repertory Theater
• Eurydice in "The E & O Line", Soho Rep Theatre, New York City,
an electronic blues opera by Anne LeBaron about Orpheus and Eurydice
• Steppenwolf Traffic series with Willy Schwarz and the All-American Immigrant Orchestra
• Indonesian vocals for "Song of the River" by Barbara Sykes
Golden Plaque, INTERCOM, Chicago International Film Festival
composed and recorded soundtrack in collaboration with Richard Woodbury
Louise wrote her first song when she was seven years old, wrote a musical when she was sixteen, then got her B.A. in voice & composition. Since then, she has written music for dance companies in New York, Chicago, Boston & Montreal, also for theatre, sculpture, video & site-specific works.
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• recommended voice teacher, Harvard University Office for the Arts 1985-95
• "The Open Breath" and "Voice-aided Stretch for Dancers", Princeton Arts Council
• "Voice and Empowerment", First Run Studio, New York City
• "Vocal Timbre: a view through performance practice & acoustic phonetics", graduate seminar in ethnomusicology, Harvard University
• "Site-specific Vocal Improvisation", Columbia College, Chicago
• transcribed spectrograms at MIT Speech Recognition Lab and Voice Processing Corp., while developing new notation systems
for use in ethnomusicology and contemporary composition
• founding member of Vocanet, networking organization for voice teachers combining conventional vocal pedagogy with holistic healing,
and Inspirare, support group for artists whose work draws from their spirituality
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INFORMATION ABOUT PERFORMING AND COMPOSITION:
• "Refuge", dance film by Carrie Hanson
about Rumanian Jews escaping Nazi Germany
Award
of Distinction, Dancing for the Camera Festival 2002 , composed and recorded
vocals for soundtrack
• Edith Piaf, Bastille Day '03, French consulate
and Alliance Francaise, Hotel Sofitel, Chicago (click here
for demo)
• "Blue Flamenco Blues", duet for two characters
each singing entirely in Blues or Flamenco style
• "The Ironclad", recorded all-male choral
parts of Civil War songs for Virtual History Studios
• Goddess Gospel, 6-voice a capella ensemble --director,
arranger & principal songwriter
recorded three
albums and toured through New England & New York
• "Oppenheimer", dance by D.J.McDonald, voice
of Japanese boy who survived bombing in Hiroshima
• "A Gallery of Voices", composed and performed
song-portraits
of Billie Holiday, Joan
of Arc, Edith Piaf, Queen Elizabeth I, George Sand, and Fanny Brice
•"Booktops", a musical portrait of a sculpture
by Richard Hunt,
commissioned for the dedication
ceremony by the Evanston Arts Council
• site-specific vocals for Links Hall, Blue Rider
Theatre, Lunar Cabaret, the Three Arts Club
and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
• "Just a Taste", Abydos Dance Co., composed
score for dance piece about chocolate.
repertoire includes:
• Bessie Smith and Aretha Franklin, Thelonious Monk and
Charlie Parker
• Peking Opera, Klezmer, Scots Gaelic puirt a beul and
Sacred Harp
• music of Japan, Sweden, Bulgaria, Argentina, Quebec,
Greece, Brittany, South Africa, Nicaragua, Turkey and the Himalayas
• Luciano Berio, Jacques Brel and Tom Lehrer, 13th c.
troubadour music, vocal percussion, multiphonics and microtonal scales
...and the "Habanera" from "Carmen"
in the voice of Fran Drescher
Louise has performed at
• P.S. 122, CSC Rep Theatre and Cunningham Studio (New
York City)
• Mobius, Museum of Fine Arts, New England Conservatory,
Mass. College of Art (Boston),
• Chicago World Music Festival, Harold Washington Library,
Columbia College and Chicago Cultural Ctr.
• University of Pennsylvania, Trinity University (San
Antonio), Oboro Gallery (Montreal)
• Omega Institute, Oxfam America Worldfest, International
Women’s Day Video Festival
..and with..
• John Cage and the New York Bowery Ensemble, Harvard
Group for New Music and Redmoon Puppet Theatre
• River North Chicago Dance Co., Lisa Nelson & Image
Lab, Jan Erkert & Dancers and Chicago Moving Co.
• Michael Zerang and Fredrick Lonberg-Holm, Artemis Singers,
Carolyn McDade and Mustard Seed
• tarin chaplin and Vermont International Performance
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
classes, workshops and guest-lectures:
• “Vocal Improvisation with graphic notation”,
Mass. College of Art
• “A World of Song”, Vermont International Performance
Project
• “Extended Vocal Techniques & Contemporary Composition”,
Harvard University
• “Voicing for Theatre”, Middlebury College
• “Voicing: a whole-person approach to expression”,
UMass, Amherst
• “Mimicry as a Research Tool”, graduate seminar
in ethnomusicology, Harvard University
• “Voice and Communication”, Amherst College
Louise has also taught at:
• Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
and Vittum Theater (Chicago)
• Harper’s Land and Kickapoo Council
of Healing Arts (Viroqua, WI)
• Heartwood Center for Body Mind Spirit (Evanston, IL)
• Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), Dance New England, City
Year (Boston)
• Marta Valle School (New York City)
Studies in alternative healing, as well as allopathic
techniques and traditional vocal pedagogy:
Expressive Arts therapy, Alexander Technique, Body-Mind Centering,
Feldenkrais, Authentic Movement, Jungian Shadow work,
Laban Movement Analysis, Sound Healing, grief and bereavement
work, recovery from childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence, the
breathwork of Frédérick Leboyer, Bioenergetics, Chinese medicine,
Co-Counseling and other discharge-based psychotherapies, vibrational
medicine, acoustic phonetics, breath physiology and Inner Child work. (back
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