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This event is FREE to stream. In lieu of purchasing tickets, please consider making a donation of any amount that you feel is meaningful in support of ISSUE's 2021 commissions. Enabling the fullscreen function is recommended. The length of the full presentation is approximately 8 minutes.
This event is FREE to stream. In lieu of purchasing tickets, please consider making a donation of any amount that you feel is meaningful in support of ISSUE's 2021 commissions. Enabling the fullscreen function is recommended. The length of the full presentation is approximately 8 minutes.
ISSUE is pleased to stream With Inner Sound, Truth, a new work by drummer and composer Savannah Harris. The piece, curated by Sami Hopkins (ISSUE’s 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow), is a continuation of the With Womens Work series, commissioning artists to interpret and respond to scores included in Womens Work, a magazine first edited and self-published in 1975 by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood. The piece will also be performed live at ISSUE’s 2021 Benefit event.
For the commission, Savannah Harris takes cues from Ruth Anderson’s composition Silent sound (1976-77), published in Womens Work #2, to create With Inner Sound, Truth. Here, Harris uses the drum set to direct her attention to "inner sound" and "intuitive voice," responding to Anderson’s earlier considerations of how silence might be held in the body or experienced through felt sense.
Savannah Harris is a New York City-based drummer, composer and producer. Raised in Oakland, California by musician parents, she gravitated towards the drums at age 2. Through the Bay Area music community, Savannah grew familiar with a wide variety of styles, developing a deep love for music as a global language. While at Howard University completing her bachelor’s degree in journalism, she met Geri Allen and made her New York debut playing with Geri Allen, Linda May Han Oh, and Tia Fuller at The Stone. Since then, Savannah has become one of the foremost young drummers in the scene today touring with Kenny Barron, Etienne Charles, Peter Evans, Or Bareket, and María Grand. She’s worked alongside Jason Moran on a collaboration with Second City Improv as well as Between the World and Me at the Apollo Theater. She’s performed with Terence Blanchard, Billy Childs, Christian Scott, Linda May Han Oh and Fabian Almazan, Aaron Parks, José James, and avant-garde art collective Standing on the Corner. In 2019, Savannah was awarded the Harlem Stage Emerging Artist Award, and she received her master’s in jazz performance from Manhattan School of Music. She was featured twice in the January 2021 issue of Modern Drummer. Savannah Harris collaborated with 2020 Artist-In-Residence Justin Allen for DRUMS, which premiered at The Chocolate Factory.
