A Line of Thought

What are the aesthetics of a voice? In this workshop, Samita Sinha invites artists of all disciplines and levels to explore the sonic elements of vocal expression, including time, space, composition, texture, timbre, and pitch, and to use their voices as instruments of mark-making.

Join Sinha and engage these elements to discover different ways of creating a line of musical thought. With a focus on responsive listening and embodiment, Sinha supports the development of each person’s unique vocal expression as a form of live composition.

This workshop builds upon Sinha’s previous workshop, Voice as Matter, offered on July 10; however, attending that workshop is not a requirement for participation.

This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of HARMAN. Major support is provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Rasika and Girish Reddy. The Rubin also thanks Preethi Krishna and Ram Sundaram and contributors to the 2017 Exhibitions Fund.

About the Artist

Samita Sinha is a composer and vocal artist who combines tradition with experimentation to create new forms. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Performance Network among others, and commissions from Performance Space 122 and Asia Society. Her solo work “Cipher” toured nationally (The Kitchen, Wexner Center for the Arts, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and REDCAT), and she has collaborated as composer and performer for dance and theater works by Dean Moss, Fiona Templeton, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, and Sekou Sundiata.