SAVN
SAVN
Movements on memory, distance, and connection for three voices interwoven with various instruments by Lulu West, Cherilyn Tan, and Freja Højland Høj
When I sing with people, I feel so connected to them, like strings of connection in the air.
The Danish word “savn” indicates a state of being or feeling where one misses someone or something. One feels the absence of or the need for someone, a loved one, a friend, of something, of touch, of closeness.
Freja Højland Høj is a soprano, performer, and improviser from Denmark, currently based in New York. Described as a “gorgeous soaring soprano” in the German Magazine OPER!, Freja seeks interdisciplinary collaboration and explores the intersection between classical singing, theater-making, performance, improvisation, and electronics.
Cherilyn Tan is an improviser, musician-sound artist, community-centered designer and facilitator, originally from Malaysia, based in New York. Her practice is transdisciplinary, weaving together sound, movement, somatic research, and improvisation, to facilitate deep listening, collective healing, and liberatory worldbuilding. As a pianist, she plays across a range of genres, from classical, free/experimental improv, latin jazz, theatre, and more. She performs voice and electronics, live sound, writes songs, and collaborates across mediums and forms. Currently, Cherilyn facilitates attention practices at the Strother School of Radical Attention.
Lulu West is an NYC-based composer, improviser, songwriter and educator. Her music is guided by rural queer and trans histories as she looks to create experiences of communal healing. Lulu is specifically fascinated by how folk melodies, field recordings and ambient drones can merge with the freakiness of harsh noise, hardcore, power electronics and experimental found-sound sampling. Lulu’s main collaborative projects consist of a folk/classical guitar duo project entitled Polsky West, a noise rock trio called Duchess, and a free-improv duo with percussionist Paul Sakai.
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