Paine Hall
3 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVENT BEGINS AT 5 PM ET.
JJJJJerome Ellis presents an improvisational lecture-performance on his ongoing research on music, stuttering, race, and nature.
In this improvisational lecture-performance, composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis will share some of his ongoing research on intersections between music, stuttering, race, and nature. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, he’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century black runaway slaves who stuttered.
The event will be livestreamed via the Harvard University Department of Music Youtube Channel.
JJJJJerome Ellis
JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled animal, artist, and person who stutters. JJJJJerome was born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants.
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully rewrites history, creating a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue to take, their freedom.