Eleanor Hovda is a composer from the United States of America. A composer is a person who writes music. ...
She has been recorded by the ensemble Relâche, and has released two albums on OO Discs, Coastal Traces and Ariadne Music. She likes to play the piano with her daughter Annie, who is blind. Relâche is French for cancellation. Relâche was the name Erik Satie and his surrealist (former Dada) friends gave to the ultimate ballet production in which Satie was involved as composer. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ...
Eleanor Hovda has written a piece using a Xhosa style of throat singing. The Xhosa people are a people with Bantu origins living in South Africa. ... Throat singing, also known in the western world as overtone singing, harmonic singing, or harmonic chant; and many other regional names, is a type of singing that manipulates the harmonic resonances (or formants) created as air travels through the human vocal folds and out the lips. ...
EleanorHovda's music is performed extensively in the US and abroad.
Nancy sees dance "as a means of penetrating through the times to essences and eternal human experiences", in contrast to seeing dance as a means of reflecting the times.
EleanorHovda can also be heard on oodiscs #17 with the Relache Ensemble.
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