Elaine Mitchener
Gig
Elaine Mitchener With Shamica Ruddock & Pat Thomas
London Wigmore Hall, United Kingdom
Interview
Symphony of sirens: an interview with Aura Satz, David Toop, Elaine Mitchener, Evelyn Glennie and Raven Chacon
April 2024
The Wire’s Caroline Whiteley speaks with the acclaimed sound artists ahead of a symposium around Aura Satz’s debut feature length film Preemptive Listening at Tate Modern
Essay
A Cry of Anguish: Eight Songs For A Mad King
May 2023
As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece
On Air
Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music
November 2022
The 17 November edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Elaine Mitchener, Barbara Dane, Tengger, Gina Birch, Marisa Anderson, Liza Aikin & Zavoloka, and more
Issue 455
January 2022
The Portal
Music By Any Means
December 2021
Films of two Wire events, featuring O YAMA O and Elaine Mitchener, plus a podcast of a third, featuring Vicki Bennett aka People like Us, have been posted online by Somerset House Studios
The Portal
Elaine Mitchener: What’s The Score?
October 2021
The experimental vocalist shares some examples of radical approaches to creating and performing musical scores
Tracks
Stream an excerpt from Black Top Presents Some Good News
February 2021
London imprint Otoroku shares an exclusive excerpt from a 2019 performance by Black Top, featuring Hamid Drake, Elaine Mitchener, William Parker, Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas
Issue 433
March 2020
Tracks
Elaine Mitchener: Vocal Classics Of The Black Avant Garde playlist
April 2019
The black British singer selects tracks which place the voice at the heart of black avant garde expression
Interview
Breaking the chains: Elaine Mitchener on the British Empire’s legacy of cruelty
February 2018
A Q&A with Elaine Mitchener about her performance piece Sweet Tooth – a visceral, overwhelming indictment of the role sugar and the slave trade played in building the British Empire
Issue 381
November 2015
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"their naked descent"
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