In my solo project, I sing and play cello, often with electronics. In my band, Ken Thomson plays clarinet and bass clarinet, Alan Ferber plays trombone, Fred Kennedy plays drums, and I sing and play cello.
Influences
As a composer, my influences are as broad as Debussy, Stravinsy, Bjork, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe. I also really admire what Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, 2 Foot Yard, Todd Sickafoose, Kate Bush, and Juana Molina are up to.
Sounds Like
My own compositions straddle the ground between art song and the singer/songwriter tradition. The works on my upcoming CD, "All Summer in a Day," written by nine talented emerging composers, are the next generation of art song: the logical extension of classical music written by a generation of composers informed by pop, rock, and electronica.
Jody Redhage is a cellist, composer, and vocalist, performing in a variety of genres in New York City. She is a passionate proponent of new music, participating in a wide array of cutting-edge chamber music and solo cello performances, many including electronics. A classically trained cellist, Jody began composing at the age of 19, and began a project several years ago in which she writes music for her to sing and play simultaneously. In August 2005, after receiving the Hertz Fellowship Grant, Jody commissioned a body of repertoire for her voice and cello, culminating in a CD recording of nine of the works, including electro-acoustic and acoustic works. This CD, titled "All Summer in a Day," is released on New Amsterdam Records, and features pieces by some of the most talented emerging composers on the new music scene today. Jody is a busy freelance musician in New York City, performing with groups as diverse as Neil Diamond, Jay-Z, Beyonce Knowles, Duncan Sheik, Sufjan Stevens, Guster, The Roots, Meatloaf, Enya, Clay Aiken, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Flux Quartet, and many new music chamber groups and bands such as the Tactus Ensemble, Yes is a World, the Composers Collective Inc., and the the Y Trio (clarinet, cello, percussion.)
Jody has participated in many recording sessions for films as well as other composers' CDs and has premiered over 100 new works, many of which have been composed for her. Please check her website for more information: www.jodyredhage.com.
Jody has a new band performing her original compositions for voice/cello, clarinet, trombone, and drums. The group blurs the boundaries between chamber music, pop, and jazz, with the great improvisers Ken Thomson on clarinets, Alan Ferber on trombone, and Fred Kennedy on drums.
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jody! i hope you're well! have you checked out wayne horvitz's gravitas quartet? if we're both at kinhaven next summer we need to make some of those tunes happen on a staff concert.. accessible improvised music for the more classically-inclined ears. also - i enjoy the tracks you have here very much!
