Mira Benjamin
Verses
Another Timbre presents Verses, five chamber and solo works by the Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman. "I have been thinking about what is inside and what is outside. The everyday life and tragedy of what goes on around you, and the fact that to accomplish anything you need the isolation in the studio - I think about this moral issue. And then on another level, I think about an inside and an outside for art itself, and how ephemeral that is.... What I am looking for is a way to notate the mo…
Windfell
An hour for one performer who plays and sings at the same time. Mira Benjamin asked James Weeks for a long piece; rather than write for the violin he wrote for her, adding her voice to widen what a single player could hold.
Dirt Road
Three movements from 'Dirt Road' (2006), a 68-minute piece in 15 movements by Linda Catlin Smith, played by Mira Benjamin (violin) & Simon Limbrick (percussion), and released as part of the 'violin+1' series on Another Timbre in June 2016.