<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Looking for Musicians and Vocalist Collaborators!</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Looking for instrumentalists and vocalists to experiment with some music performance during a two-week artist residency at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts from August 26^th-September 8^th.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PROJECT INFO</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Collaborators will work with words and sounds artist, Meredith L. King, who will be in residence at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts (formerly Theatre Ninjas) for two weeks to explore musical improvisation and theatricality with instrumentalists and vocalists. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The residency will explore the question: How can theatricality enhance and expand a music-making practice? (Or how can you integrate theatre skills into music making in such a way that both art-forms are forced to stretch and grow?) Collaborators will bring ideas to life using jamming and improvisation as well as pre-planned music arrangement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The styles of music we’ll be (loosely) playing with could be described as</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">a)       cheeky funk and its coded language,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">b)      90s-style r&b (with an eye to honoring its humor and extraness)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">c)       and outsider/alt hip- hop</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Think Parliament Funkadelic meets Scott Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams (Duck Tales Theme Song Edition) meets Peaches. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">WHEN & WHERE...</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:13.91px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Rehearsals will take place largely on weekday evenings and weekend afternoons from August 26^th-September 8^th. Participants do not have to be available for all days, but a fair amount of availability would be awesome</span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">.</font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif">All rehearsals will take place at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts (5403 Detroit Ave, Cleveland OH.)</font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SEEKING MUSICIANS & VOCALISTS</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 47.25pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Instrumentalists of any sort will be considered (non- traditional and electronic instruments welcome! Drummer/percussionists appreciated especially.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 47.25pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Vocalists of any/all ranges considered</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 47.25pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Must be able to learn music by ear</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 47.25pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Able to or excited to try musical improvisation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family: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!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>If interested, email <a href="mailto:mlaurenking@gmail.com" target="_blank">mlaurenking@gmail.com</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Meredith L. King</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> 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>). Meredith is passionate about theatre that brings the personal into the public and serves as a catalyst for connection and community building.</span></p></div>