Misha Penton

Contemporary opera singer, experimental vocal composer, media artist, performance creator and director
United States (residence)
research interests: voice, postopera, experimental voice, devised performance, improvisation, poetics, mythopoeia, classical reception, Greek Mythology, fairytale
affiliation: Bath Spa University
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Misha Penton is a contemporary opera singer, experimental vocal composer, media artist, performance creator and director. Her projects blossom in many forms: live performances, sound and film works, site specific installations, and writings. Recent projects include Threshold, a site-specific experimental opera performed at an old grain factory in Houston, Texas and Medusa Emergent, a media work created for the 35' high MediaWall at Bath Spa University, UK. Upcoming media and performance projects: Visible Darkness, a music film celebrating the monstrous feminine; Inhale Starlight, an evening of new music and poetry in Mandarin and English at Asia Society Texas; and Misha's directorial debut with Houston Grand Opera directing a new web opera in the company's series Star Cross’d. Misha is a PhD candidate in voice and music at Bath Spa University where she is a member of the Open Scores Lab and is under the supervision of James Saunders, Director of Studies, and Pamela Karantonis (Goldsmiths University of London). mishapenton.com

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  • VOICE and the UNKNOWN (last edited: 2019) author(s): Nordic Network for Vocal Performance Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    The aim of this artistic research symposium is to allow for VOICE to act as a guide into the UKNOWN. Through an entangled mish-mash of intra-active events (performances, installations, workshop and seminars) participants will be invited to explore the potential power of VOICE and its impact on the UNKNOWN or ’that-which-is-yet-to-be-known’. In 17th century Venetian academic circles VOICE was considered to be a symbol of NOTHINGNESS (Calcagno 2003). VOICE was also the primary tool in the creation of the opera genre (Belgrano 2011). Questions driving the event include: how can we understand VOICE in contemporary every day performances, based on both sensuous and intellectual knowledge? What specific vocal features will emerge if we allow VOICE to be the guide into the UNKNOWN aspects of life and living? The symposium will be staged as the first one out of three events, allowing for the project to eventually grow into an international platform for Vocal Performance Philosophy, based at IAC. This first event is a seed highlighting the significance of the theme; the second event will be presented as an intra-active performance-workshop; the final event will be organised as an international symposia. The symposium is curated by Nordic Network for Vocal Performance Research (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/399282/399283), Nordic Network for Early Opera (http://www.earlyopera.org), and Network for Performance Philosophy (https://performancephilosophy.ning.com/about).
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Exposition: PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY GOT (30/03/2019) by PP GOT
Misha Penton 15/05/2019 at 01:07

Exciting!