Christina Wheeler – »Surrender to the Totality of Blackness«

CTM Festival 2023 – Portals

Christina Wheeler will present part one of her tone-poem suite titled »The Totality of Blackness Trilogy,« a multimedia, surround-immersive performance work devised to engender a space that reframes our experience of Blackness and the accompanying fear often intrinsically enmeshed therein. Respectively titled »Emerge from -,« »Surrender to -,« and »Resonate in the Totality of Blackness,« the trilogy will be presented over three consecutive nights. Tone poems sung through subtle, elongated vocal techniques with effects processing allow the audience to experience the music’s message as both a meditative invocation as well as a transportive experience, creating a new relationship with Blackness, where fear can be released, and a place of love for the self relative to and included in the larger context of the world and the universe can be encouraged.