Three Songs

Chester —The Chester Historical Society will present “Three Songs in Search of a Voice,” a performance by Al Margolis and Lisa Barnard, at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, at the 1915 Erie Railroad Station in Chester. This performance is a workshop of an eventual larger piece that incorporates live and prerecorded sound, video, voice, and movement. Through the adaption of Barnard’s dream with text, sound, and movement, the audience will catch a glimpse into the landscape of a dreaming mind and the progressions of conflict and resolution in the midst of dreamtime. Barnard received her bachelor of arts in performance studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She has been studying music and performance independently in the Hudson Valley for the last six years, collaborating with local musicians, actors, puppeteers, and visual artists. Al Margolis will be providing live sampling and backing tracks. He is a label manager for Deep Listening Institute, XI Records, and Mutable Music; plays bass guitar in the long-lasting, legendary punk/post-punk band The Styrenes. He has recorded or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Hudson Valley Soundpainting Ensemble among others.