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Candida AKA VOCE
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Website http://cvhaynes.com >> This web site features photos of the artist's work.This web site features audio clips of the artist's work.

Personal Statement: The voice, like any instrument can be used to compose music, accompany a leading line, improvise and lay claim to the skill and artistry that instrumentalists enjoy as musicians. In VOCE Collaborations, instrumentalists are invited to interact with the voice as equals and even invert tradition by improvising leading lines supported by the voice.

Further, with live looping technology, one voice can build in volume and texture to sound like a small choir and challenge the definition of a “solo.” To some extent, I am composing for the voice and the machine...

Current Work
VOCE is working on artistic, business and service-oriented projects highlighted on CVHaynes.com including VOCE the Muse, a deliberate initiative to collaborate with artists from a variety of fields. VOCE the Muse: An Exploratory Project is an endeavor designed to

1) invite emerging and established visual and performing artists, writers, filmmakers and others to co-create new pieces with VOCE soundscapes;
2) expand on work created by artists who have created high-quality pieces in response to VOCE Sound Art;
3) encourage more artists to find connections between VOCE Projects and their artistic interests and
4) create new pieces by incorporating VOCE Sound Art in fresh collaborations with professional artists.

CVHaynes.com provides a space for collaboration, activism and artistic exploration in support of VOCE Projects. It offers a platform through which people all over the world may participate in VOCE Projects and social art campaigns that encourage thoughtful consideration and support of the arts as a vital part of a civilized society. Other VOCE Projects on CVHaynes.com include “Possibility,” a multimedia exploration of poetry, computer art and sound; sound art from Cry Uncle and early renditions of VOCE pieces called “Rough Cuts."
Short Bio
Candida Haynes began performing standard American music in New York with Kaufman Kabaret and as a solo act at Don’t Tell Mama, Soul Cafe and Rose’s Turn. She has also graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Radio City Music Hall in performances televised on CBS, PBS and VH1.

While completing a Bachelor of Arts at Amherst College, she benefited from formal training and performance opportunities in jazz, classical and choral music. After college, she took advantage of New York’s massive opportunities to develop her musical abilities at The New School, University of Rochester, and The Singers’ Forum.

After exposure to the free music scene in 2000, She began constructing a new musical concept and took on the artist persona VOCE. A premier collaboration with instrumentalist/composer Ethan Hein reincarnated some of her web-based installations (mac.com 2001-2002) as live performance text recorded as “Cry Uncle: A VOCE Project.”

VOCE’s sound art seeks to connect the audience to the musical, textual and emotive aspects of the presentation. Audiences have been exposed to the evolving VOCE concept at LaMaMa Experimental Theatre, the “Discover Columbus” spring festival on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, September Concert and various New York City galleries.
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Contact
Manhattan
Artist Location
New York, NY

Type of artist
Performer, Arts Educator, Composer, Writer, Other

General Themes
Art Forms/Art Criticism, Feminism/Gender Issues, Peace/Conflict Resolution, Mass Media/Pop Culture, Religion/Spirituality
Keywords
"Free" music vocal performance modern art sound art technology post-modern performance music for poetry vocal improvisation jewish music
Last updated on March 29th, 2006

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