<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Looking for Musicians and Vocalist Collaborators!</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Greetings! I am looking for Musicians and Vocalists to experiment
with some music performance during a two-week artist residency at Maelstrom
Collaborative Arts from July 8- July 21. Artists will be working with me,
Meredith L. King (bio below) to explore some collaborative music performance,
and bringing ideas to life using both jamming and improvisation, as well as pre-planned
music arrangement. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The styles of music we’ll be (loosely) playing with could be
described as </font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">a)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">cheeky funk and its coded
language, </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">b)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">90s-style r&b (with an
eye to honoring its humor and extraness)</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">c)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">and outsider/alt hip- hop</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Think Parliament Funkadelic meets Scott Bradlee’s
Saturday Morning Slow Jams (Duck Tales Theme Song Edition) meets Peaches. I’m
very </span>Interested in playing up the inherent theatricality of tongue-in-cheek
music and experimenting with how that theatricality can support music-centered
performance.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>HERE'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>MUSICIANS</b></font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Instrumentalists of any sort will be
considered (non- traditional and electronic instruments welcome!)</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Will definitely need a keyboardist, drummer or
percussionist, guitarist (acoustic, electric, and/or bass)</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Must be able to learn music by ear</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Able to or excited to try musical
improvisation</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>VOCALISTS:</b></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Seeking two vocalists</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Must be able to learn music by ear</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Able to or excited to try vocal improvisation</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Excited to explore some theatricality in
performance</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span>Any vocal range</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Though this project might very well expand, it is currently in experiment-phase and welcomes people
who are excited to embrace the experimental magic!</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>If interested, email Meredith at <a href="mailto:mlaurenking@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">mlaurenking@gmail.com</a>. </b></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%">Meredith
L. King</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%"> makes words and sounds collide on the stage,
including work as a playwright, performer, lyricist, and composer. Meredith is currently a cadre member with
Maelstrom Collaborative Arts in Cleveland, Ohio where her artistic work
includes creating original work for <i>Short
Form 2018</i>, <i>Bricolage 2018, Bricolage
2019</i> and <i>Saturnalia</i> 2018. This
summer Meredith produced Maelstrom’s newest mixed media show <i>Rising Tide</i>. Other recent credits
include work with Cleveland Public Theatre’s Entry Point (<i>Saturated Fat</i> and <i>Bipolar
Mixtape</i>) & Station Hope Programs (<i>Under/Stand
</i>and <i>When They Took My Grandmother</i>),
and Talespinner Children’s Theatre’s PLAYground (<i>The Garden of In-Between</i>). As a director, performer and musician,
Meredith has worked with Round House Theatre’s Heyday Players, dog & pony
dc, eXtreme eXchange, The Hegira and African Continuum Theatre, including
participating in the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%">Meredith received a B.A. from Stanford
University and an M.B.A from Yale University. She has worked professionally as an arts administrator, teacher and community organizer on the
national level. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%"> Meredith
served a three-year term as a judge for Washington, DC’s regional theatre
awards, The Helen Hayes Awards, and has also served six years as a reader/judge
for the Source Theatre Festival. Meredith frequently creates work focused on
people who live at the intersections, who are simultaneously hypervisible and
invisible, but whose stories rarely make it to the stage. Meredith is
passionate about theatre that brings the personal into the public and serves as
a catalyst for connection and community building.</span></font><br></div>