Takes Time Away in Abiquiu
Some Serious Business is pleased to welcome Berkeley, CA-based composer, bassist, and producer Lisa Mezzacappa. Lisa has been an active part of California’s vibrant music community for more than 20 years. Her activities as a composer and ensemble leader include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, adventurous jazz, non-traditional opera, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance, and visual art. Recent projects include Cosmicomics, a suite for electro-acoustic jazz sextet based on Italo’s Calvino’s stories about the origins of the cosmos; Organelle, a chamber work for improvisers grounded in scientific processes; Glorious Ravage, an evening-length song cycle for large ensemble and films drawn from the writings of Victorian lady adventurers; and Touch Bass, a collaboration with choreographer Risa Jaroslow. She is currently collaborating with writer Beth Lisick on the serial audio opera The Electronic Lover.
While in residence at Casa Kama, Lisa will take advantage of the multi-valent privacy and silent and majestic natural landscape to fine tune The Electronic Lover, an audio opera created by her and New York writer Beth Lisick, and released as a serial podcast beginning in summer 2020. The story is set in chatrooms at the dawn of the Internet, at the moment when we first invited computers into the most intimate aspects of our lives. Season 1 follows a tech-curious cabal of young women, isolated and constrained in their own lives, who connect across vast distances to create a thrilling new virtual community. Episodes 1-6 are currently available on all podcast platforms, and the season concludes this fall with episodes 7-9.