Portrait of Sasha J. Langford in studio, by Pascha Marrow
About the Workshop
“Drawing from my practice as a composer and interdisciplinary performer, this workshop aims to provide participants with reflective tools to use when composing and selecting music for dance, performance, and moving images. Through participatory exercises and group discussion, we will practice identifying specific sound qualities that can be useful to observe when pairing sound with movement, and look at how to translate abstract feelings or descriptive words into concrete musical ideas. Participants are welcome to bring ideas-in-progress to the discussion.”
About the Artist
Through sounds, writings, and intermedia performance works, Sasha J. Langford creates somatically immersive and rhythmically sensitive work that investigates intersections between bodies, power, and psychic life. She is interested in the way in which political contexts and formative experiences create the conditions in which desire and resistance can be circulated and shared. She is particularly curious about these conditions in the context of the city of Vancouver, where she was born and continues to live as a white settler of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and as an uninvited guest on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam territories. Sasha has composed soundtracks for animation, 3D video, installation, and dance, and has done solo performances at festivals such as the International Noise Conference in Miami, FL; the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation in Brooklyn, NY; and the Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music in Dunedin, New Zealand. Sasha is the organizer of Social/Movements, a reading and discussion group based around dance theory. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University.
Sasha is one of the F-O-R-M 2020 Commissioned Artists in the Emerging Category! You can catch her world premiere film Habitat 86 (pictured, with photography by Vivienne Bissette) screening at 5pm on Saturday, September 19.
Your All Access Pass is your digital ticket to all things F-O-R-M 2020—it gives you access to every event, from artists talks, to workshops and film screenings. Pay what you can, sliding scale $5-$70. Please note all F-O-R-M 2020 events are online-only.