CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

We hope to be at future NMG events. For now, you can watch our 2019 performance of the piece at the NMG-Online event (details coming soon).

Kin of the Moon is delighted to have been invited to this year’s New Music Gathering in Portland, OR!

We’ll be presenting Kaley Lane Eaton’s FUNERAL SENTENCES FOR DAMAGED CELLS, featuring NYC soprano Chelsea Feltman. Our timeslot is 10am on Saturday, June 20th. We would love to see our PNW new music family there!

Some words from Kaley about the piece:

FUNERAL SENTENCES FOR DAMAGED CELLS is a multi-movement work that tells the story of my own family’s journey through multiple generational traumas and how that relates to our current societal predicament. The birth of my great-great-aunt in an insane asylum; the orphaning of my great-grandparents; tumultuous migration to the American west; my grandfather’s tragic experience in a concentration camp; my mother’s untimely death; and the current situation of the living generations of my family, caught in a limbo on this continent they did not rightfully inherit, faced with the disintegration of the American dream. How can the singing voice be a metaphor for epigenetic transmission of trauma and information? How does the evolution of language contribute to our ability to express these traumas? How can digital technology interact with the voice to grip audiences into these stories?