LILY: An Electroacoustic Opera | June 2017

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103

Lily explores the psyche and heart of Lily Isabel Bunny, Eaton’s great-grandmother, an orphan who fled England at the start of WWI in 1915, alone, 25, female. She took a ship to Montreal and then a train, which she rode to the end of the railroad, arriving at Cascade Tunnel east of Everett, WA.
Kaley Lane Eaton presents Lily, an electroacoustic “opera” for voice, live electronic processing and sensors, violas, saxophone, electric harp, piano, choreography, and projected imagery with an original libretto by Felicia Klingenberg.

Through terrifying, vast electronic soundscapes, intimate instrumental meditations, eerie and intertwining spoken words, and raw melodies that span the range of Eaton’s classical and jazz vocal inflections, this piece imagines Lily’s grief, exhaustion, joy, and transformation. With Klingenberg’s text, full of transcendent clarity and soul, along with the superb skill of some of Seattle’s best performers and improvisers, we invite you in to the enormously complicated experience of migration that unites our species.

Featuring:

Kaley Lane Eaton, voice, electronics
Heather Bentley, viola
Gwen Franz, viola
Steve Treseler, saxophones and clarinets
Carol Levin, electric harp
Wei Yang, piano
Karin Stevens, choreography performance
Rian Souleles, projected images

Photo Arthur Allen Poster Design Alexandra Allen