From the website of Genevieve Lacey:

‘Consort of the Moon imagines a new choral ritual, built from the echoes of an ancient melody.

It’s a new sound work that I’m creating with Erkki Veltheim and a brilliant team of collaborators. Consort of the Moon transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other, and to the wild earth.

The work layers live and hyper-real electroacoustic music to usher in a hypnotic, unifying ceremony. Audiences are welcome to participate, or simply sit and listen to a drifting, environmental soundscape that alters the collective sense of space and time.

This twilight gathering is inspired by the oldest known piece of notated song — an ode to Nikkal, Goddess of Orchards and Consort of the Moon. The music echoes the calls of owls, bats, and cicadas — blurring lines between human and animal realms in a nocturnal metamorphosis.

We’ll premiere this new work for Rising, June 10-14. We couldn’t be more excited to be celebrating its birth in a place and community that’s home and dear to us, after years of dreaming and working on it. Tickets are on sale here for the June season.’