Episode 10: Anais Maviel, Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Photo: Simon Desrochers
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Anaïs Maviel, Vocalist, percussionist, composer, music director and community facilitator.
Anaïs’ work focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation, and creating utopian future.
Inspired by Edouard Glissant's reflections on Creolization, she has associated her practice with the inextricable currents that move spaces and people between times and lands. The contemporary context of re-formulation of self, reality and social structures led her to question the use of language, and to explore its vibratory essence in music. Involved at the crossroads of mediums - music, visual art, dance, theater and performance art - she has been an in-demand creative force for artists such as William Parker, Steffani Jemison, Daria Faïn, César Alvarez, Larkin Grimm, Shelley Hirsch, Mara Rosenbloom, Melanie Maar & La Bomba de Tiempo - to give a sense of her eclectic company. As a leader she is dedicated to substantial creations from solo to large ensembles, music direction for cross-disciplinary works, and to expanding the power of music as a healing & transformative act. She performs extensively in New York, as well as in North, Central & South America and Europe, and she is the 2019 recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship which allows her to further develop her composition language for voice and mixed ensemble, premiering new works at Roulette Intermedium in New York City.Her solo debut hOULe, out on Gold Bolus Recordings, received international acclaim and she recently released an eponymous album with carnivalesque duo DIASPORA.
With a Masters Degree in Aesthetics (Literature, Arts & Contemporary Though - Paris VII Diderot University), she focused her scholarly works on Afrocentric paradigms of Creative Music as utopian alternative politics. Anaïs Maviel pursues essay and poetic writings as part of her artistic inquiry and published a recent article in French magazine Revue et Corrigée, interviewed by bassist and collaborator Maxim Petit about the stakes of multiculturalism in contemporary music.