The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs has announced the second annual Days of Intonement, a space for music, sound, and reflection on Sunday, September 28, at 2 pm.
The event features a workshop, sound experiences, and a performance situated in the season of the Jewish High Holidays. Open to all, the program expects no prior knowledge of or experience with any religious traditions.
Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies. In live performance, she weaves together accordion, vocals, and samples, inviting audiences to engage with ritual, intergenerational trauma, and the echoes of ancestral memory.
Days of Intonement Schedule includes:
2 pm: Hands-on Kleztronica Workshop: Engage with DJ Chaia’s philosophy and performance practice of cultural sampling and witness Yiddish archives turn into contemporary beats. Kleztronica melds traditional Yiddish music with contemporary electronic genres like house and techno.
3:30 pm: Intonement Ritual: Inspired by (but straying far from) Jewish traditions of gathering, (a)toning, and releasing what we no longer need, sound artist Adam Tinkle leads a sequence of collective rituals and sound experiences sampled freely from High Holiday liturgy.
4:30 pm: Kleztronica DJ Set Performance by Chaia: Accordion, vocals, and samples weave together to invite audiences to engage with ritual, intergenerational trauma, and the echoes of ancestral memory.
The program and admission to the Tang are free. The Tang Museum, located on the Skidmore College campus at 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York, is open noon–5 pm Tuesday–Sunday, with extended hours until 9 pm on Thursdays.
For more information, call 518-580-8080 or visit tang.skidmore.edu.
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