The Cocoon of the Moth

The sound of a nocturnal dive inspired by the moth larva, nestled in its cocoon, silent, invisible, and embodied, before it comes out as a new entity.
The birth – creaks, screeches into the unknown: manifestations of voice, body, and no-input-mixer.
Medusa is a Jerusalem-based female vocal ensemble that performs original works, musical arrangements of poems, biblical texts, and folk songs from around the world. The work is characterized by tension between popular and abstract and experimental structures or their combination.
Medusa are Ellie Orian, Noam Ahdut, Aya Gavriel and Bar Eran – four distinct voices, four singers with their own personality, musical taste, and artistic choices. Out of their differences and diversity an entire is created, one that exceeds the sum of its parts; one singer – a four-headed medusa.
For the ensemble, the voice is a means for exploring the relationship between the feminine and the masculine, the audience and the stage, spirituality and physicality, life and death, memory and oblivion, intention and action. The listening experience is immersive and sensory, conjuring flashes, smells, and images from near and distant times and worlds.