by Elise Witt© Non Si Sa Mai Music ASCAP A Selection from the Elise Witt Choral Series SATB, SSAA, TTBB Song…
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Change the Story Change the World features Elise Witt: All Singing
“Change the Story/ Change the World” is a chronicle of art and community transformation across the globe hosted by Musician, Educator, Activist Bill Cleveland. In each episode, Bill introduces listeners to creative change agents working to re-imagine and recreate the social, political, and cultural narratives that define their communities.
Ready or Not: A Community Art Project
Elise Witt’s “Ready or Not” imagines our human journeys, through the image of packing a magic suitcase. Join our #ReadyorNotSuitcase Community Art Project on Facebook and Instagram! @ReadyOrNotSuitcase
A BREATH of SONG takes a deep dive into “Song Deep in Your Bones”
I met creator Elise Witt online during the pandemic, when we were both in a course led by the extraordinary improviser Rhiannon… I was honored, because I already knew of Elise as a composer of unusual choral work that I had explored doing with my community chorus. In fact this piece was conceived as a choral piece, and Elise very generously let me excerpt a bit of it to be a pocket song.
Elise’s GVP STUDENTS WRITE, CREATE, REMIX NEW MUSIC IN SONGWRITERS’ CLUB
How do we deal with the many feelings we experience while stuck at home and living through a pandemic? For some GVP students, the answer is through songwriting. A new student-led Songwriters’ Club has flourished at GVP as a unique space for students to explore composing their own songs and remixing others’. Students meet weekly via Zoom to workshop original lyrics and share their latest creations with peers. They swap techniques for using GarageBand, a digital music creation studio available on their iPads. And the finished products are impressive: as STEAM Coordinator Danielle Ereddia says, “It’s not only that students are writing lyrics, they’re writing melodies and using loops, voice filters, and instruments on GarageBand to construct multi-layered songs…with up to 14 different tracks on one song.”
on the Choral Commons
This interview was conducted on May 12, 2021 by Emilie Amrein and André de Quadros, founders of the Choral Commons.