Doyennes' Diaries
About
Doyennes' Diaries portrays modern womanhood and its labour through a custom instrument processing household objects and narrated diaries contributed by four women-identified artists.
Credits
Improvised & Composed by Michele Cheng
With diaries and narration by Barbara, Simona, Michi, Michele
Live video recorded by Dave
Live audio recorded by Hassan
Recorded March, 2020 in tribute to International Women's Day
Performance History
2024 University of California, Irvine, U.S.
2023 Ensemble alokori: Le Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, QC, Canada
2023 Sound, Meaning, Education, Guelph, Ont, Canada
2023 Throwdown, Harvard University, U.S.
2022 International Contemporary Ensemble: MATA Festival at Roulette, Brooklyn, U.S.
2022 IAWM’s conference, Corvallis, OR, US
2022 Napoleon Electronic Media Festival, Eastern Illinois University, U.S.
2021 ICMC International Computer Music Conference, Santiago, Chile
2021 SEAMUS Virtual National Conference
2021 NYCEMF New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYC, NY, U.S.
2021 Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco, CA, US
2020 Seoul International Computer Music Festival (KEAMS), Seoul, South Korea
2020 CCRMA @ Home, Stanford, CA, U.S. (Binaural mix)
2020 She Scores Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.