Vermont Council on Arts Inc.
12/19/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 12/19/2023 10:54
Vermont Made Episode 15: Grooving with Impermanence with Musician Rebecca Mack
"Each language is a different poet…If you take a word or a concept that you love and choose 16 languages and look at the words, and play with the words, they all feel different. Languages each have their own context, their own history, their own chutzpah that they come with, and their very own unique flavors." -Rebecca Mack
Musician and teaching artist Rebecca Mack discusses her new song cycle, "Body," inspired by her experiences with long Covid disability, climate change, and the shared impermanence of the human body and the Earth body.
Learn more about Rebecca and her work at rebeccamackmusic.com.
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Rebecca under a mosquito net, playing piano in their semi-outdoor studio on a warm evening. Photo: Margaret Dunn-Carver.Paper and seashells. Poem for "Twilight: Vespera," written by Rebecca Mack, 2023. Photo: Rebecca Mack.Music writing table in Puerto Rico. Sketches of "Body" in progress with melodica. Photo: Rebecca Mack.The Winooski River delta at Lake Champlain, July 11 2023 (flooding). This location inspired Rebecca to compose Cantus Avium. Photo: Rebecca Mack.Rebecca Mack (center) with Amerykanka members Salka Thali, Audrey Pirog, Alison Mott and Stephanie Lynn Wilson (left to right). Photo: Luke Awtry.
"When we can not objectify other people's bodies, when we can not objectify our own bodies, and when we can not objectify the earth as the earth body, then we are co-created, we are in a flowing relationship where we're in a dance. And it might be a dance that isn't the dance that we thought we were going to be dancing, but it's still a dance."