Chapter 5 Shape of Grief Listening Session (2023)

This is the documentation of the first 20 minutes of the performance/event Shape of Grief. It was designed as a listening session where the audience was taken through my PhD playlist—a playlist created throughout my research process composed of songs that I was drawn to and that spoke to me of the feeling of grief. The playlist is composed of songs from around the world. I also used this portion of the performance/event to introduce the audience to the context of the performance/event and release a specific set of musical tonalities into the room to set the tone for the performance that follows. The format of this session was a performance lecture where the mediums of performance and delivering a lecture are combined seamlessly. The listening session flowed seamlessly into the performance.

Excerpt from thesis performance Shape of Grief 2023