Odeya Nini Artist Statement

Odeya Nini: ODE Artist’s Statement Ode to gratitude for the sense to feel vibration move through every pore and every cell in my being as the Voice. Gratitude for the voice that blurs the boundary between myself and the rocks and earth around us, that blurs the boundary between you and I. Ode to the boundless unknown that makes itself visible through the sound of our breath.

These pieces are both compositions and improvisations. They have road maps and guidelines, but what happens in each performance is led by the moment’s inspiration. As I sound, I seek to stay in a state of discovery, and these pieces are essentially real time excavations in sound and texture, a deep dive into their theme. Some guiding forces are movement, disorientation, dynamic play and expressive range causing timbral and qualitative shifts.

I think of these as sung abstract poems, celebrating the unsung sounds that make up the spectrum of the human voice.

I am interested in radical expression through the energy of my sound, to create an inviting container that holds the audience captive and the listener active.

I am interested in resonance, as it pertains to the physical sound wave rebounding off the surfaces it contacts, and as it rebounds between us, connecting you and me in vicarious union.

I am curious about “the call” that is the utterance of our voice, the desire to reach and touch and move something within ourselves, as being the music, being the composition itself.

I am interested in reclaiming the voice as a conduit of higher states of consciousness that allow us to access entry points to awareness, vitality, relief and exaltation.