Stella Silbert / Georgia Beatty + Maisie O’Brien / Ananya Ganesh (mask req)

This is an all-ages, mask-required event!

Join us for an evening of sound, story, and shadow in this 3 act show. Stella Silbert with “Sweetness the point of song,” an electroacoustic solo project featuring improvisation with no-input mixing board and prepared turntable. Georgia Beatty and Maisie O’Brien performing an original fiddle and shadow puppet show “Spirit-Rider and Night-Heart”. Ananya Ganesh improvising works of voice and piano, playing with and at the limits of the ear and of embodiment.

For the protection of our performers and staff, we ask that you please wear your mask.

Stella Silbert

Sweetness the point of song is Stella Silbert’s electroacoustic solo project featuring improvisation with no-input mixing board and prepared turntable. Stella is based in Western Mass and has frequently collaborated with Liam Kramer-White, Nat Baldwin, Neil Cloaca Young, Webb Crawford, Arkm Foam, and Donny Shaw.

(https://stellamorisilbert.com/ / insta @rabid.dingbat )

Georgia Beatty

Georgia Beatty is a fiddler and songwriter focused on cycle, lineage and healing through cultural transmission. Her first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation (self-released, Oct 2022) is a collection of original & traditional fiddle tunes honoring death as a moment in transformation. She has played solo and in ensembles in multiple venues throughout Washington D.C., Philadelphia, NYC, and Western Massachusetts. She is currently based in Baltimore, MD.

(georgiabeatty.com / insta @georgia.beatty / georgiabeatty.bandcamp.com)

Maisie O’Brien

Maisie O’Brien is a Philadelphia based shadow puppeteer simmering together everything from cut paper to overhead projector, crankie theater, animation, printmaking, and cello. She has performed and workshopped her shadows nationally at puppet slams, festivals, and classrooms from Camden to Chicago. They have also developed shadows, puppets, sets, and costumes for local and international collaborations with filmmakers, dancers, musicians, playwrights, and educators.

(maisieobrien.com / insta @maisie_oh )

Ananya Ganesh

Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of the voice and piano lies between the unrealizable and what could be(coming). Playing with and at the limits of the ear and of embodiment, their work unfurls as expressions of indeterminacy, spontaneity, and the joys of dissonance and (in)access. Live performances, improvised from and with disregard for “maps” created for each venue, consist of modular short-form vignettes and long-form works. Ganesh sculpts these open forms through the explorations of dynamics, texture, density, registral color, imbricated lines, and sparseness.

(https://worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/album/precis-loving / insta @ananyaganesh )