I invite you to listen to the sound work below on headphones or earbuds as you experience my MediaWall video. The audio is about 7 minutes and the MediaWall film is about 13 minutes... so the sound and film overlap in many ways...
Spend as little or as much time as you wish... please allow a moment for the file to load, and the sound work will loop automatically:
Misha Penton: soprano, concept, sound work.
Boja Kragulj, clarinet.
Experience the audio below if the loop above doesn't work for you. Simply press play for a 13 minute sound work...
Medusa Emergent is a multi-version media and voice work inspired by the formidable snake-haired Gorgon of Greek myth. The work's iterations include the BSU MediaWall, live performances, a series of short films, and creative and experimental writing pieces. I'm a contemporary opera singer, experimental vocal composer, director, and media artist, and my work seeks to re-imagine the possibilties of opera in the 21st century. My practice is often driven by improvisation, chance, and indeterminacy, with meaning emerging through the creative process itself. I hope to create works which honor and highlight the diminishing role of the inner life in an ever-fragmented, ever-exteriorized and overdriven world.
Learn more about The Medusa Project.
I'm a performance maker, media artist, and writer. I create experimental voice pieces, and invent and perform solo and collaborative (post)opera and new music works. My projects blossom in many forms: live performances, audio and video works, site specific / installation pieces, and writings. I'm currently a PhD candidate in Music and Voice at Bath Spa University supervised by Pamela Karantonis, Director of Studies, and James Saunders, Second Supervisor.
Many thanks to Neil Glen and the MediaWall team at Bath Spa University.