Looking for Musicians and Vocalist Collaborators!

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.

 

The styles of music we’ll be (loosely) playing with could be described as

a)       cheeky funk and its coded language,

b)      90s-style r&b (with an eye to honoring its humor and extraness)

c)       and outsider/alt hip- hop

Think Parliament Funkadelic meets Scott Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams (Duck Tales Theme Song Edition) meets Peaches. I’m very Interested in playing up the inherent theatricality of tongue-in-cheek music and experimenting with how that theatricality can support music-centered performance.

 

HERE'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:

MUSICIANS

·         Instrumentalists of any sort will be considered (non-  traditional and electronic instruments welcome!)

·         Will definitely need a keyboardist, drummer or percussionist, guitarist (acoustic, electric, and/or bass)

·         Must be able to learn music by ear

·         Able to or excited to try musical improvisation

 

VOCALISTS:

·         Seeking two vocalists

·         Must be able to learn music by ear

·         Able to or excited to try vocal improvisation

·         Excited to explore some theatricality in performance

·         Any vocal range

Though this project might very well expand, it is currently in experiment-phase and welcomes people who are excited to embrace the experimental magic!

If interested, email Meredith at mlaurenking@gmail.com.

 

Meredith L. King 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 Short Form 2018, Bricolage 2018, Bricolage 2019 and Saturnalia 2018. This summer Meredith produced Maelstrom’s newest mixed media show Rising Tide. Other recent credits include work with Cleveland Public Theatre’s Entry Point (Saturated Fat and Bipolar Mixtape) & Station Hope Programs (Under/Stand and When They Took My Grandmother), and Talespinner Children’s Theatre’s PLAYground (The Garden of In-Between). 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. 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.  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.