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Carla Kihlstedt is an American composer/improviser/songwriter, a violinist/vocalist and an educator. She enjoys creating long-form collaborative pieces that pull from her divergent musical influences and explore a single complicated idea from many angles: the ocean, dreams, quarantine, and the mechanization of the world to name a few. Recently, as a lyricist, she has been exploring different forms of erasure and verbal upcycling. She is a founding member of the bands Tin Hat, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots, Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, 2 Foot Yard, Minamo and Causing a Tiger. She has written for vocal groups (San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Variant 6), chamber groups (International Contemporary Ensemble, Present Music, Brooklyn Rider, Del Sol String Quartet), and dance/theater companies (Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, inkBoat, Joe Goode Dance Company).
Carla is on the faculty of the Contemporary Musical Arts Department of the New England Conservatory and the MFA in Composition program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. She lives on Cape Cod, MA with her partner and their two kids. Her band, Rabbit Rabbit Radio, releases a song on the first day of every month to subscribers. Ten Amendments is her first collaboration with Dither and her second with poet, artist and educator Rafael Osés. The first was Necessary Monsters -- a song cycle inspired by J. L. Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings.
Rafael Osés was educated at Hartford Art School and Columbia University. His poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Fugue, The Cincinnati Review, The Portland Review and elsewhere; his book-length narrative poem “The Night Pharaoh” was published in 2010. Violet Enlightens: A Radio Drama in 3 Acts, written with composer Mark Orton, has been broadcast across the country and around the world, and is archived in the Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY-Buffalo. He has taught at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts since 1997.
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